Testing the Model of Direct and Indirect Effects of Self-Esteem and Communication Skills on the Sexual Satisfaction of Female Nurses in Shiraz: The Mediating Role of Hidden Communication Aggression

Autor: Fakhr al-Sadat Siadat, Amin Koraei, Masoud Shahbazi, Zahra Dashbozorgi
Jazyk: English<br />Persian
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: دست‌آوردهای روان‌شناختی, Vol 29, Iss وِیژه نامه انگلیسی, Pp 79-94 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2228-6144
2588-6649
DOI: 10.22055/psy.2023.43165.2976
Popis: Aim: Considering the effects of hidden communication aggression and its consequences on the couple's relations, reducing it can diminish its consequences. The present study aimed to examine the model of direct and indirect effects of self-esteem and communication skills on sexual satisfaction with mediating role of hidden aggression dimensions of spouses in female nurses of public and private hospitals in Shiraz city. Methods: The study sample consisted of 310 female nurses selected through the two-stage random cluster sampling method. The research method was correlational, and the research tools were the Self-Esteem Scale (SES), the Marital Social-Skills Inventory (MSSI), the Hidden Communication Aggression Scale (HCAS), and the Sexual Satisfaction Scale for Women (SSSW). Data analysis was done using Pearson's correlation coefficient and structural equation modeling. Results: The results showed that there was a significant relationship in the direct paths of self-esteem to the social image sabotage, self-esteem to emotional withdrawal, communication skills to emotional withdrawal, self-esteem to sexual satisfaction, communication skills to sexual satisfaction, social image sabotage to sexual satisfaction, and emotional withdrawal to sexual satisfaction, but the relation of communication skills to the social image sabotage was not significant (P=0.41). Also, the mediating role of emotional withdrawal was significant between self-esteem and sexual satisfaction (P=0.006, b=0.038) and between communication skills and sexual satisfaction (P=0.006, b=-0.062) at P
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