Assessment of mediatory role defense styles in the relationship between ego development and marital satisfaction

Abstract

In recent decades the impact of personality traits on marital relationships has attracted a lot of attention because the character is the most important and the most fundamental issue in marital dissatisfaction. Given the importance of the character , present research studies the mediating role of defense styles in the relationship between marital satisfaction and level of ego developments. Research has shown that correlation can be predicted. For this purpose 200 people were selected by available sampling of Ss ,from teachers of Savogbolag township. Data from the defense styles (DSQ), sentence completion test (SCT) and marital satisfaction (ENRICH) questionnaires were collected and the hypothesized model using path analysis methods were used.Results obtained from the correlation and regression analysis showed that ego development indirectly with the mediatory style defense(impact factor:0/21) had significant impact on marital satisfaction. we can Therefore prove that the role of the personality and its components, in defense style and ego development can determine level of marital satisfaction and key factors in developing a prevention program are education and health with emphasis on personality.

Keywords

• ego development
• defense style
• defense mechanism
• marital satisfaction.