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Several studies showed that egalitarian gender ideology can have a significant impact on the couple’s marital harmony and marital discord. This impact can be direct or indirect and can be in interaction with other significant psychological variables such as perception of equity. This study aimed to investigate the direct and indirect effects of egalitarian gender ideology on marital harmony and marital discord with the mediation of perception of equity. The subjects of the study were 150 couples (150 men and 150 women) whose children were studying in elementary schools of Ahvaz, selected according to multistage random sampling. The participants completed Measures of Marital Harmony (MHQ) and Marital Discord (MDQ), Gender Ideology (GIS) and Measure of Equity Perceived (MEP). Data were analyzed, using structural equation modeling (SEM) and also the indirect effects were tested by bootstrapping method. The results indicated that the proposed model did have good fit indices. The results also showed that the egalitarian gender ideology had an effect, both direct and indirect, on marital harmony and marital discord in men and women.

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فرامرزی، سحر (1388). بررسی نقش ادراک انصاف در کیفیت زناشویی در کارکنان متأهل شهر اهواز. پایان‌نامه کارشناسی‌ ارشد، دانشگاه شهید چمران اهواز.
 
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