Factors of Successful Marriage: A Qualitative Research based on Grounded Theory

Healthy marriage is of essential role in forming healthy family.The study is to identify a successful marriage. This study was done as a qualititivie research based on grounded Theory method. The statisticd population of this study were the whole couple of Yasuj city that thay had married at least 5 years ago. The purposeful sampling was used to collect the data. Sampling continued until 31 theoretical saturation was obtained totally 26 participants (13couples) which high marital satisfaction were interviewed in semi structured and in depth method and analyzed using the constant comparative method of struss and corbin. The results showed that successful marriage factors were of wide range. Identified factors were indidual factors, factors related to couples relation, factors related to couplesmain family, social – cultural factors parental factors. Any of obtained factors contain different categories. Understanding and identification of the influencing factors in the successful and stable marriage in successful couples can be considered as a model and a direction for couples and will benefit for pdychologists and counsolors of marriage and will eventually assist to the society health.