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Aim and Background: Considering to adverse consequences of infidelity on couples well-being and longevity of marital relationships, this study was conducted to investigate the relationship between love schemas and Justifications for extramarital involvement and affairs in married women. Method and Materials: This was a descriptive-correlation study and the samples included 250 married women who were randomly selected among clients of counseling and cultural centers in Isfahan. The participants completed the Love Schema Scale (LS) and Justifications for Extramarital Involvement Questionnaire (JEIQ). Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and Scheff&eacute;&#039;s post-hoc analysis. Findings: There was a relationship between love schemas and justifications for extramarital involvement, and significant differences were found in justification for extramarital involvement between love schemas (P < 0.001). In general, women with the secure type reported the least endorsement for all the aspects of justification for extramarital involvement (P <0.001). Conclusions: The results of this study provided exprimental support for utility of model of love schemas in intimate relationships, and indicated the importance of considering the role of love schemas on possibility of extramarital involvement that may have useful implications for determining the couple therapy interventions in this area.

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Abstract Aim and Background: &nbsp;This study investigated the relationships between sexual assertiveness as showing a strong and confident personality in sexual relation and marital conflicts between couples. &nbsp; Methods and Materials: &nbsp;During a correlational study a random sample of married women, (N=225) who were living in Zarrin Shahr (Isfahan province) in 1393 were selected. They answered Hulbert sexual assertiveness and Bagher Sanai Marital Conflict questionnaires. Pearson correlation coefficient analysis with SPSS 19 conducted. Findings: &nbsp;Analysing the data &nbsp; showed that there is a significant negative correlation - 0/203 between sexual assertiveness and marital conflict (P<0.05). The correlation between sexual assertiveness and decreasing sexual relations -0.131, increased exciting reactions -0.149, separating financial affairs -0/188, and reducing effective relations -0.249 was significant. (P<0.05). The strongest relation was observed between sexual assertiveness and reducing effective relations. &nbsp; Conclusions: &nbsp;our findings suggest that with decreasing sexual assertiveness, marital conflict for our participant increases. Further quantitative studies with greater sample size and qualitative researches in Iranian cities with more conservative sexual norms are warranted to evaluate the relationship between these two variables. We believe that development of courses of sex education and assertiveness based on Iranian Islamic norms will be useful for improvement of women&#039;s sexual assertiveness and decreasing marital conflict in their families.

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Aim and Background: Quality of life includes different dimensions of physical, mental and social health and comfort of people's lives and is affected by various factors. For this reason, this research was conducted with the aim of predicting emotional intelligence based on the quality of life of married people with the mediation of self-confidence in married women.
Methods and Materials: The research method was descriptive-correlation. The statistical population of the research included all married women living in Semnan who had referred to counseling centers. The sampling method was purposeful and based on entry and exit criteria, 384 people were selected based on Morgan's table. The data collection tools include Petrides and Farnham's standard emotional intelligence questionnaires, World Health Organization's quality of life, and Cooper Smith's standard self-confidence questionnaire. Data analysis was done using ANOVA and regression tests. Also, SPSS software, version 26 was used at a significance level of 0.05.
Findings: The results of the research showed that among the variable dimensions of self-confidence, the educational and occupational scale ranked first with 41.2%, the social scale ranked second with 34.4%, the family scale ranked third with 23.1% and the general scale. With 19.15%, they are in the fourth place and the lie scale with negative 18.9%, affecting the quality of life of married women. Therefore, the role of self-confidence dimensions is significant (p<0.05). The results of examining the effect of emotional intelligence on self-confidence in married women in the research model were 21.9%. Also, the beta value of the relationship between married people's quality of life and emotional intelligence was found to be 0.469 in the first model and 0.539 in the second model, and the moderating variable of self-confidence has an increasing role, and its value is 0.274, and the moderating role of confidence is breath was statistically significant (p<0.05).
Conclusions: According to the results, clients can be informed about how low self-confidence can add to their psychological problems and how they can overcome their psychological problems with emotional intelligence to increase their quality of life during marriage.