The Role of Mindfulness and Empathy in Prediction of Marital Satisfaction

Background and Aim : Family is the most important and influential institution among human societies, and marital satisfaction indicates the strength and effectiveness of couples relationships. In this research we investigated the relationship between marital satisfaction with mindfulness and empathy in married students.Methods : Statistical society of research included 822 of married students of International Imam Khomeini University in Qazvin city that selected with Hierarchical Sampling method. The last sampling included 260 student that 148 of them were woman and 122 of them were man. Three questionnaires were used in this study including Enriching and Nurturing Relationship Issues Communication and Happiness (ENRICH), Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MASS) and Interpersonal Reactivity Index (IRI). This research has causal-comparative and after-effect method.Results : Analysis of data showed that there were a statistical relationship between all factors in mindfulness and general scale of empathy and mindfulness in comparison with empathy showed more effect on marital satisfaction.Conclusion : Marital Satisfaction, Mindfulness, Empathy, Interpersonal Reactivity.

Keywords:

Marital Satisfaction , Mindfulness , Empathy , Interpersonal Reactivity