Marital Satisfaction of Married Women during Coronavirus Epidemic based on Interpersonal Communication Skills and Mind Reading Ability

Coronavirus disease has caused changes in people's lives that may affect their life satisfaction. Also, constructive interpersonal relationships and the mind reading ability are among the factors affecting the couple's life. Due to the fact that the relationship between these variables and marital satisfaction during coronavirus has not been studied, the present study aimed to predict marital satisfaction of married women during coronavirus epidemic based on interpersonal communication skills and mind reading ability. The study was a descriptive correlational one including a statistical population of all married within the age range of 18- 60 years old 18- to 60-year-olds who participated in the study online. The study sample consisted of 368 people who responded online to Short form of ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire (1993), interpersonal communication skills questionnaire of Monajemizadeh (2012) and reading the mind in the eyes test of Baron‐Cohen (2001). Multiple step-by-step regression analysis was used in SPSS-22 to analyze the data. The results showed that there was a positive and significant relationship between interpersonal communication skills and mind reading ability with marital satisfaction. The results also showed that interpersonal communication skills and mind reading were able to predict marital satisfaction of married women. According to the results of the present study, interpersonal communication skills and mind reading ability are the factors affecting marital satisfaction of married women during the coronavirus epidemic and should be considered in interventions related to marital satisfaction.