A survey on the relation between Forgiveness & Mental Health in the approach of Married women

Introduction. Protection of holy Foundation of   Family led to have a better society and neglecting of family led to fall    into the abyss of destruction and perdition and focus on the best pattern on this context to introduce them to the world but nowadays there is a competition between couple’s ad no cooperation.Looking specifically at the center of the holy Quran and the best model is to identify superior family to the world. Forgiveness and tolerance of critical characteristics in the lives of wives in order to achieve peace. Religious teachings recommend to tolerance of wife. It makes them to be a source of tension for each other.  This study tries to find the relationship between forgiveness and mental health in married women. Methods. This research is using descriptive, correlation and inferential. But according to the objectives and nature of research, in each department, its proper method is used. Population of married women 25 to 45-year-old teacher in Tehran in the academic year 94-93 with inquiries from the Department of Education in Tehran, about 32,000 people was announced. The sample size was 379 people, according to Morgan table. Cluster sampling was used. Two instruments were used for data collection include:1) self-administered questionnaire "Islamic lifestyle characteristics in monogamous relationships."2(GHQ-28. Cronbach’s alpha was 0.9.Findings. Based on the results of the statistical analysis, there is a significant positive relationship between forgiveness or tolerance as an elements of Islamic life style and mental health in married women. In other words, whatever forgiveness or tolerance increased in women, they had better mental health. Results also confirmed those who have more tolerance would definitely have led to higher degree of satisfaction of each other and mental health of couples would increase.