Identification of Socio-Cultural Contexts Forming Marital Satisfaction

Marital satisfaction is the concept dealt with the life context of satisfied couples in society and influenced by social values, culture and other components existing in their life. This research identified socio-cultural contexts that formed marital satisfaction for satisfied couples. This study has been done in the qualitative approach and is based on grounded theory. The authors used interviews as data gathering instrument; the interviews were continued until the phase of theoretical saturation. Twenty one satisfied couples were purposively sampled and interviewed in Tehran in 2017 and 2018. Analysis of participants resulted in uncovering 33 open codes, 8 axial codes, and a selective code of marital satisfaction. According to findings, what was extracted as efficient factors of forming marital satisfaction in socio-cultural contexts included: main families homology, tendency to simplicity, taking benefit from supporter net of friends and family, giving importance to free time, management of cyberspace, using advisory and consulting services, religious beliefs and religious behaviors. Existence of religious factors in findings represents socio-cultural contexts of this study. These religious factors are significant and considerable in terms of the traditional roots of religious teachings and their deep role in people’s life style. Taking advantage from