Sexual Modesty, Self-Compassion, and Attachment Styles to God; A Comparison between Couples Seeking Divorce and Normal Couples

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing sexual modesty, self-compassion, and attachment styles to God among couples seeking divorce and normal couples in the city of Gorgan. This descriptive study was a causal-comparative research. 120 couples were selected among those seeking divorce by the convenience sampling, and 120 couples among normal couples by the purposive sampling. The respondents answered the questionnaires of sexual modesty (summarized form), self-compassion (short form), and attachment styles to God (summarized form). The multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was applied to analyze the data. The findings indicated that in the test of sexual modesty and attachment styles to God, couples seeking divorce got less scores than normal couples. There was no significant difference between two groups in terms of self-compassion. Based on the results, it is suggested that in the sessions of premarital counseling, couples' sexual modesty and their attachment styles to God be analyzed.

Keywords

• sexual modesty
• self-compassion
• attachment styles to god
• couples
• divorce