Abstract
<p>Commitment to both spouse and the institution of marriage appears to be important to the success of a marriage. The aim of the present study is to examine the role of relational maintenance behavior and attachment styles in predicting marital commitment. The statistical population has been consisted of all the couples who had middle school children in Tehran city; so, 372 married people (233 women and 139 men) have been selected by multiple cluster sampling. The Relational maintenance behavior measure (RMSM), Adult attachment questionnaire (AAQ) and personal commitment subscale have been considered as the data collection tools. The results have shown that there is a significant positive relationship between assurance subscale, openness, conflict management, share task, positivity, advice and secure attachment style and marital commitment, and there is a significant negative relationship between avoidant and ambivalent attachment styles and marital commitment. Also multiple regression analysis has shown that the four subscales of relational maintenance behavior (assurance, openness, conflict management and positivity) and attachment styles (secure, avoidant and ambivalent) can predict the marital commitment (p &lt;0.05). According to these findings, it can be concluded that relational maintenance behaviors and attachment styles affect the marital commitment and commitment to marital relationship among couples can be increased by training relationship maintenance behaviors and providing necessary trainings related to attachment styles for parents.</p>
Highlights
Commitment is considered as one of the crucial factors in the development and stability of personal relationships, and it helps to explain that why some relationships end and some others do not end (Adams & Jones, 1999)
The aim of present study is to examine the role of relational maintenance behavior and attachment styles in predicting the marital commitment
The research results have shown that there is a significant positive relationship between the subscales of relational maintenance strategies, assurance, openness, conflict management, share task, positivity and advice and marital commitment, and there was no significant relationship between the subscale of social network and marital commitment, and assurance, openness, conflict management and positivity have been able to predict the marital commitment
Summary
Commitment is considered as one of the crucial factors in the development and stability of personal relationships, and it helps to explain that why some relationships end and some others do not end (Adams & Jones, 1999). Marital commitment has a relationship with more expression of love, compatibility and higher marital stability, better problem solving skills and marital satisfaction. Marital commitment has three single factors: personal commitment, moral commitment and structural commitment. Personal commitment means life partner' tendency degree to maintaining relationship. Moral commitment means person’s commitment feeling degree about continuing the relationship. Person’s fundamental values and believes about correct behavior direction in relationship is moral commitment center (Johnson, Caughlin, & Huston, 1999). Structural commitment means life partner feeling degree about commitment to continuing loving relationship. Structural commitment means that the person feels that he/she has to be in the relationship due to external factors (Tang & Curran, 2013)
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