The Effectiveness of religious-based communication skills and emotional interactions on marital satisfaction

Marital satisfaction is defined as the degree of correspondence between an individual current status in couple relationships with his/her expected one. The objective of the present study was to determine the effectiveness of communicative skills and emotional interactions instruction on improving marital satisfaction with focusing on religious aspects. The study was a quasi-experimental research with pre-test¡ post-test with control group. The participants of the study were 20 couples which placed in the experimental (10) and the control (10) groups. The instrument of the study was Afrooz Marital Satisfaction Scale (AMSS). The experimental group experienced an 8 session¡ 1.5 hour instructional intervention which held once a week. The results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group while there was not in the control group. It should be mentioned that the effects of intervention remained for two months. The findings of this study point to the key role of communication skills and religious values in marital success and can be used by psychologists and family counselors.