Analysis of Structural Equations in the Relationship of Marital Conflicts and Affective Security with Perceived Stress and Pregnancy Worries and Biological Indexes with the Mediation of Psychological Wellbeing in Pregnant Women.

Pregnancy is a phenomenon which can create psychological, cognitive, emotional and communicative problems for the pregnant women in case of insufficient attention. Therefore the present study was conducted to analyze structural equations in the relationship of marital conflicts and affective security with perceived stress and pregnancy worries and biologicla indexes with the mediation of psychological wellbeing in pregnant women. The research method was descriptive in correlational and structural equations type. The statistical population of this study included pregnant women who attended women and delivery clinics and the hospital in the town of Ramsar from January to March of 2018-19. The research sample included 300 pregnant women who were selected through available sampling method. The applied instruments included marital conflict questionnaire (Sanaei et.al, 2000), affective security scale (Cordova, Gee, Warren, 2005), perceived stress questionnaire (Cohen & al, 1983), pregnancy worries questionnaire (Alderdice, Lynn, 2011) and psychological wellbeing questionnaire (Ryff, 1996). The data analysis was conducted via Pearson correlation and structural equation methods after collecting the questionnaires. The results showed that there is a significant relationship between the variables (p<0.001). Moreover, the mediation role of psychological wellbeing was proved in the relationship of marital conflicts and affective security with perceived stress and pregnancy worries and biological indexes in pregnant women. Regarding the mediation role of psychological wellbeing, it is necessary to provide and use a training package of psychological wellbeing for the women to improve affective security and biological indexes and decrease marital conflicts, perceived stress and pregnancy worries in the pregnant women.</p