Abstract

Marital satisfaction is not a static and stable concept and during mutual living most of the spouses experience slight changes in their amount of satisfaction. Several factors affect the life satisfaction of spouses. One of these factors indicated in some researches is having the communicational skills in spouses. The main aim of this research is studying the effect of communicational skills training on the marital satisfaction. The research methodology is applied and experimental method. The current study sampling method is available and among the people visiting the health centers 40 married women ranging from 25 to 35 were chosen and randomly put into two groups. The current research results showed that a significant difference was observed in the amount of marital satisfaction in the experimental group before and after communicational skills training, and the amount of marital satisfaction has increased after the communicational skills training. Thus it could be concluded that communicational skills training has a significant effect on the increase of marital satisfaction in spouses. Of course due to the low dispersion in each of the sub-scales in aspects of marital satisfaction this significance was not meaningful. At the end a few applicable and research suggestions are provided.

Keywords: Communicational Skills, Marital Satisfaction, Family.

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