Predicting Marital Satisfaction Based on the Personality Traits of Married Women: The Mediating Role of Coping Strategies

The aim of this study was to predict the marital satisfaction of married female students of Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran based on the components of personality traits with the mediating role of coping strategies. The method of the present research is heuristic-sequential and guided correlation. The statistical population of the study is all married female undergraduate and graduate students of Shahid Beheshti University of Tehran who were studying in the academic year of 1997-98 and the sample number was 350. Non-random sampling method is available and voluntary. To collect research data, four questionnaires were used under the title of Enrich Marital Satisfaction, Neo Personality Questionnaire and Rezakhani Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Using inferential statistics including correlation method, path analysis to provide a model, using multiple regression to examine the relationship between variables and the dimensions associated with each variable, the data were analyzed and the results showed a relationship between personality traits components. Neuroticism is negative and significant with the marital satisfaction of married women and the relationship between conscientiousness, openness, agreement and extroversion with the marital satisfaction of married women is positive and significant. The results also showed that psychosis has a greater role in explaining the marital satisfaction of married women (p <0.001). The results showed that personality traits with the mediating role of coping strategies had a positive and significant effect on marital satisfaction of married female students of Shahid Beheshti University.