The Relationship of Emotional Intelligence and Coping Styles to Marital Satisfaction and Adjustment

the present research carried out to investigate the relationships of emotional intelligence and coping styles to marital sa- tisfaction and adjustment. The sample consisted of 60 married women between the ages of 23 and 49 from Charmahal & Bakhtiari Province. Participants completed the Enrich Martial Satisfaction scale (Olson, 1994), the Marital Adjustment Inven- tory (Singh, 1987), the Trait Meta Mood Scale (Salovey et al., 1995) and the Coping Inventory for Stressful Situation (Endler & Parker, 1990). The results indicated that marital satisfaction and marital adjustment were positively associated with emo- tional intelligence and task-oriented coping style.