ASSESSING THE MODEL OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FAMILY OF ORIGIN AND MARITAL SATISFACTION WITH MEDIATIONS OF MARITAL COMMITMENT AND MARITAL EMPATHY IN NURSES

Family-of-origin health, marital commitment, and marital empathy are of factors
influencing to the health of family. The aim of the current research was the assessing of the model of
family of origin and marital satisfaction with mediations of marital commitment and marital empathy in
nurses.
Materials & methods: This research was correlation of path analysis type. 200 married, female nurses
among public and private hospitals of Shahrekord city were selected using based-purposive and
voluntary sampling method and according to inclusion and exclusion criteria, and responded to the
Family of Origin Scale, Marital Satisfaction Scale, Marital Commitment Questionnaire, Marital
Empathy Scale as original instruments, and Family Solidarity Scale, Locke–Wallace Marital Adjustment
Test and Batson Empathy Adjectives scale as convergent validity instruments. The data were analyzed
using Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis statistical methods and by SPSS-21 and AMOS
statistical software's.
Results: The results of fitness indices indicated that the model was fitted and the direct path coefficients
of the model showed that family of origin to marital commitment, family of origin to marital empathy,
family of origin to marital satisfaction, marital commitment to marital satisfaction, and marital empathy
to marital satisfaction, and the indirect path coefficients were all significant (p < 0.001).
Conclusion: There was an emphasis on the role of commitment and marital empathy in mediating
between family of origin and marital satisfaction and the necessity of conducting research on this area
was discussed