Communication Skills of Couples and its Relationship with Family Breakup (Case Study: Married People of Tabriz City)

Family is a small group consisting of a woman, a man, and children, whose basic and inseparable feature is intimacy. There are many factors that affect the family structure and its strength, cause disruption in the relationship between couples, conflict between family members, and ultimately provide the conditions for family breakup. This study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between couples’ communication skills and their relationship with family breakups among married people in Tabriz. The main question of the research is: What is the relationship between the communication skills of couples and the breakup of the family? The method of research is survey and the data collection tool was a questionnaire. The target population is married people living in three urban Districts (5, 7, and 8) of Tabriz. Based on Cochran's formula, 384 of them were selected as members a statistical sample through cluster and random sampling. The results showed that there is a significant negative relationship between communication skills and family breakup; that is, the increase of communication skills between couples decreases the risk of family breakup, and vice versa. Moreover, the findings on the examination of average difference in family breakup and communication skills according to the level of education showed that there is a difference between groups with higher education and lower education. That is, the level of education of couples is a significant factor in establishing communication and preventing it from the breakup of the family.