Perceived Intimate Partner Rejection, Behavioral Control and It's Relation to Personality Dispositions:Resilience as a Protective Factor among Married Adults in Egypt

The aim of this study was to examine relationship between Perceived intimate partner Rejection, Behavioral control, negative personality dispositions, and resilience, among married Egyptian couples. The study attempts to find out the role of Resilience as protective factor between negative personality dispositions and Perceived intimate partner Rejection. It also aims to finding the differences between males and females in Perceived intimate partner Rejection, behavioral control, personality dispositions, and resilience. The sample consisted of 233 Egyptian married couples (M=37,85;SD=9,12).(Male=99 with mean of 38.82 and SD= 7.78 and female= 134 with mean of= 37.13 and SD= 9.97). The measures used in this study were: Intimate partner Acceptance-Rejection/Control Questionnaire (IPAR/ CQ) (Rohner, 2005) translated and adapted into Arabic by the researcher. Adult personality Assessment Questionnaire (Adult PAQ) Rohner (1984)translated and adapted into Arabic by (Salama, 1986), Resilience scale (Wagnild, 2009) translated and adapted into Arabic by (Shenouda&Basha, 2014). The results shows that are significant differences between mean scores of males and females in Perceived Intimate Partner Rejection; Behavioral control; Negative self-adequacy; emotional Instability; Negative world view and Resilience, favoring females. A positive correlation exists between males and females scores in Perceived Intimate Partner Rejection, Behavioral control and their scores on Negative personality dispositions (aggression/ hostility, dependency, negative self-esteem, Negative self- adequacy, emotional unresponsiveness, emotional Instability and Negative worldview). A negative correlation exists between males and females scores in Perceived Intimate Partner Rejection and their scores on resilience. When the effect of resilience, is partialled out, the association between Perceived Intimate Partner Rejection and negative personality dispositions decreased in magnitude for both males and females.