Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

The present study was conducted to determine the mediating role of self-criticism in the relationship between self-compassion and forgiveness and marital burnout in married people.  This descriptive-correlation research was of structural equation modeling type. The statistical population of this research was the married people of Isfahan city in 1402. The final sample size was considered to be 220 people. Sampling was done in an accessible manner based on an online survey. To collect data, self-compassion scale (SCS; Neff, 2003), forgiveness scale (FS; Rye et al, 2001), marital burnout questionnaire (CBM; Pines, 1996), and level of self-criticism scale (LOSC, Thompson and Zurof, 2004) were used. The results showed that the proposed model is a good fit. The findings of the research showed that self-compassion has a negative and significant relationship with marital burnout and self-criticism, also there is a negative and significant relationship between forgiveness and marital boredom, and self-criticism has a positive and significant relationship with marriage (P<0.05). Boredom (P<0.05). Other results showed that self-criticism plays a mediating role in the relationship between self-compassion and forgiveness with marital burnout (P<0.05). Based on this, it can be concluded that self-pity and forgiveness directly or mediate self-criticism on marital burnout.