Developing a Structural Equation Model of Resilience Based on Self-Differentiation with the Mediation of Marital Intimacy in Married Female Nurses Working in Government Hospitals and Health Centers

Introduction:Resilience is an influential component of various psychological, emotional, and emotional variables and is substantial in occupational, individual, and family issues research.Methods: The present study is fundamental in its purpose and descriptive in collecting data; it is a correlational type with a structural equation model.The statistical population of the study also includes all married female nurses in government medical centers and hospitals in Alborz province who were working in 2022, from which 400 people were selected as a sample using a multi-stage cluster sampling method.Connor and Davidson's (2003) resilience questionnaire, the revised short form of the Skorn-Smith Self-Differentiation Questionnaire (2003), and Bagarozzi's (2001) Marital Intimacy Questionnaire were used to collect data.Results: There is a positive and significant relationship between self-differentiation (r = 0.732, P > 0.01) and marital intimacy (r = 0.856, P > 0.01) with resilience.Also, the standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis of the self-differentiation variable were 20.686, 0.212, and -0.941; the marital intimacy variable was 89.597, 887, and -0.019; and the resilience variable was 30.055, 0.202, and -1.131. Conclusions:The results showed that the data fit the research's conceptual model and also confirmed the mediating role of marital intimacy in the relationship between self-differentiation and resilience.Therefore, it is recommended that healthcare professionals pay special attention to the cognitive, emotional, and affective variables of this group to increase the strength of married female nurses.