The Meditating Role of Intimacy in the Association between Communication Patterns and Quality of Married Life

The present study aims to explain the meditating role of intimacy in the association between communication patterns and quality of married life. The research method was descriptive-correlation. The populations of the study included all married teachers of Marvdasht City from whom 303 individuals (162 Females and 141 Males) were selected through single-stage clusters. In this study, The World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL), Christense-Salavi communication pattern (1984) and Marital Intimacy (Van den Broek and Hans Bratman, 1995) are used. In addition data were analyzed using SPSS and AMOS software and in two statistical levels, descriptive (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (correlation matrix, multivariate regression analysis and path analysis).The results showed that the avoidance communication pattern cannot affect the quality (p