Predicting Intimate Attitudes and Marital Happiness Based on self-Compassion and Communication Skills in Married female Students

The purpose of this study was to pre-dict intimate attitudes and marital happiness based on self- compassion and communication skills in married female students. The research method was descriptive and of correlational type The statistical population of this study consisted of all married students of Payame Noor Uni-versity of Talesh in the second half of the aca-demic year of 2019- 2020. Among them, a sample of 210 students were selected by available sampling method who completed the Self-Compassion Scale Short Form (SCS-SF), Communication Skills Test-Revised (CSTR), Intimate Attitude Scale (IAS(, and Marital Happiness Scale (MHS). Data were analyzed using descriptive indices, statistical methods of Pearson correlation coefficient, and stepwise regression analysis. The results showed that the listening skills, communication with determi-nation, and insight into the communication process were able to predict sincere attitude, and explained 32% of the changes in this variable. Also, ability to receive and send messages, self-compassion, listening, emotional control, and assertiveness, predicted 63% of the marital happiness variable (P<0.01). Based on the research findings, it can be concluded that communication skills and self-compassion are related to the marital intimacy and happiness of married students and are able to predict them.