Predicting Family Efficiency Based on Couples’ Differentiation, and Emotional Empathy with the Mediating Role of Marital Boundaries

Document Type : Original Article

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1 PhD student in psychology, Bint Al-Huda Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah University, Qom, Iran

2 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Islamic Humanities Higher Education Complex, Al-Mustafa Al-Alamiyah University, Qom, Iran

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This study aimed to predict family efficiency based on couples’ differentiation and emotional empathy, with the mediating role of marital boundaries. The research employs a descriptive-correlational method, through convenience sampling from the population of all married men and women in Qom, Iran, comprising 165 people. The study utilizes Safouraei's Family Efficiency Questionnaire and Inventory(1388), Self-Differentiation Inventory by Skowron(1998), The Questionnaire Measure of Emotional EmpathyMehrabian & Epstein, 1972), and the Houshyari's Spouse Boundaries Questionnaire(2020). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, structural equation modeling. The results show there is a positive and significant relationship between couples’ differentiation and family efficiency. In addition, there is a positive and significant relationship between couples’ emotional empathy and family efficiency. Marital boundaries partially mediated the relationship between self-differentiation and family efficiency and fully mediated the relationship between emotional empathy and family efficiency.

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  • Receive Date: 22 September 2023
  • Revise Date: 29 April 2024
  • Accept Date: 04 May 2024

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