Parvin Mostafazadeh - MSc in Clinical Psychology
Seyyed Abdolmajid Bahreinian - Professor and Director of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch

Various protective mechanisms have been proposed to explain how marital satisfaction is increased through positive and negative emotions. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between personality characteristics and marital satisfaction; the mediating role of positive and negative affect. The research method was descriptive and correlational. In this research, 300 married women living in eastern Tehran were selected by available sampling method and five factors (NEO; Costa & McCrae, 1989), Marital Satisfaction Scale (Fowers, & Olson1993) and Positive and Negative Affective Questionnaire PANASS) was performed on subjects. Data were analyzed using the Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis. The results of the test using Imus software showed that the indirect effect of personality traits on marital satisfaction was significant through the positive and negative affect mediators at the level of p <0.05. The results of this study support interventions and training to remove and decreases negative emotions.

personality traits, marital satisfaction, positive and negative emotions