The Role Communication Patterns and Identity Styles on Prediction Marital Satisfaction: A Discriminational Study

Family is a natural social system that men and woman are its major subsystems inall of stages of its development and many factors such as communication patterns and identity styles play a role in their marital satisfaction. The purpose of this study was theprediction marital satisfactionbased on communication patterns and identity styles.

The research design was a two-group diagnostic function. The statistical population consisted of all Married men and women are referred to counseling and psychological services related to counseling system Tehran city in year 2019. In this study, according to convenience sampling method, 480 people by formula Keramer were selected as samples. Sample research into scales were asked to Enrich marital satisfaction questionnaire (EMSQ) of Olson and et al (1987), communication patterns questionnaire (CPQ) of Christensen & Sullaway (1984) and revised identity style inventory (RISI) of Berzonsky and et al (2013). For this purpose, 100 people with high marital satisfaction and 100 people with low marital satisfaction were selected and data were analyzed by SPSS-24 software, using discriminant analysis method.

The obtained data were analyzed by the discriminant analysis method. The results of analysis showed that brcommunication patterns and identity styles can help to prediction marital satisfaction and function discriminant analysis assigned 74 percent of the people with and without of marital satisfaction. Some factors, including communication patterns and identity styles were found to affect couples' marital satisfaction.

It is recommended that therapists pay more attention to these factors in providing solutions to promote marital satisfaction.