Designing and Testing Structural Model the Effect of Dark Personality Traits on the Quality of Matrimony by Analyzing the Role of Emotional Reactivity and Shared Religious Beliefs **

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 WOMEN RESERCH CENTER, ALZAHRA UNIVERSITY

2 Faculty of Women and Family, University of Religions and Religions

10.22051/jwsps.2024.45030.2789

Abstract

The purpose is to design and test a model for the effect of dark personality traits on the quality of marital life by analyzing the role of emotional reactivity and shared religious beliefs among married students. The method is correlation, with the structural model approach and relies on partial least squares (PLS). The statistical population of the study was 510 married students of Al-Zahra Universityin the year 1401-1402, and 230 of them were selected by the available sampling method. The used tools are the Marital Life Quality Questionnaire (Litcher and Karmat), the Dark Personality Traits Questionnaire (Jonason and Webster), and the Emotional Reactivity Questionnaire (Nak et al.). Path analysis shows that dark personality traits have a direct positive effect on emotional reactivity and a negative one on the quality of marital life. Shared religious beliefs hurt emotional reactivity, and have a positive effect on marital quality. Dark personality traits affect the quality of married life through the mediating variable of emotional reactivity. Shared religious beliefs have moderating and reducing effect on the relationship between dark personality traits and the quality of married life. They have no significant effect on the relationship between dark personality traits and emotional reactivity, as well as the relationship between emotional reactivity and quality of married life. Based on the results, it can be said that dark personality traits play an important role in weakening the quality of marital life, and the negative effects of these traits can be improved by strengthening the shared religious beliefs.

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