en Anxiety and Stress پژوهشي Research Article <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:12px;"><span style="font-family:Tahoma;"><span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b>Background and Objectives:</b> Marital satisfaction is regarded as a crucial aspect of overall well-being, affecting mental health, physical health, and overall life satisfaction. The present study aimed to assess the mediating role of anxiety in the relationship between perceived stress and marital satisfaction among married students.</span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b>Materials and Methods:</b> This cross-sectional study employed structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine the relationships among anxiety, perceived stress, and marital satisfaction. Participants were 356 married students recruited via stratified random sampling from Azad University in Ahvaz, Iran, in 2023. Data were collected using the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, the Perceived Stress Questionnaire, and the Marital Satisfaction Scale. Statistical analyses, including SEM, were conducted using SPSS (version 26) and AMOS (version 26) software packages.</span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b>Results:</b> The obtained results indicated a significant positive relationship between perceived stress and anxiety (&beta;= 0.37; P=0.001). Furthermore, perceived stress (&beta;=-0.16; P=0.011) and anxiety (&beta;=-0.19; P=0.002) were both negatively associated with marital satisfaction. Bootstrap analyses confirmed the mediating role of anxiety in the relationship between stress and marital satisfaction among married students (P=0.010).</span></span><br> <span style="line-height:200%"><span new="" roman="" times=""><b>Conclusion:</b> As evidenced by the findings of this study, higher perceived stress leads to higher anxiety, which in turn, negatively impacts marital satisfaction. The results suggested that interventions targeting anxiety reduction could improve marital satisfaction among married students.</span></span></span></span></div> Anxiety, Marital satisfaction, Married students, Perceived stress 89 94 http://ajnpp.umsha.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-984-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Bahareh Bahadori bahadoribhr@gmail.com 10031947532846007964 10031947532846007964 No Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran Parviz Asgari paskarii45@gmail.com 10031947532846007965 10031947532846007965 Yes Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran Farah Naderi naderifa2@gmail.com 10031947532846007966 10031947532846007966 No Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran