Prediction of couple’s communication patterns by spiritual health and psychological well-being

Subject Areas : Thoughts and Behavior in Clinical Psychology

Mahmood Bahrami ¹ , Ali Mohammad Nazari ² , Kianoosh ZAhra kar ³

1 - دپارتمان مشاوره خانواده، دانشگاه خوارزمی تهران. تهران، ایران
2 - دپارتمان مشاوره خانواده، دانشگاه خوارزمی تهران. تهران، ایران
3 - دپارتمان مشاوره خانواده، دانشگاه خوارزمی تهران. تهران، ایران

Received: 2015-06-13 Accepted : 2015-06-13 Published : 2014-09-23

Keywords: psychological well-being, communicational patterns, spiritual health,

Abstract :

Unhappy marital relationship is often the result of negative communicational patterns. One approach to the study of marital communication is the explanation of couple’s communication patterns through the search for mechanisms of the formation of these patterns. The purpose of this study was to predict marital communication patterns by health spiritual and psychological well-being. For this purpose, in a descriptive study, 361 elementary female teacher were selected randomly from schools in Karaj. They were then chosen in cluster random sampling and were tested in terms of the communicational patterns, spiritual health and psychological well-being. Multiple regression analyzes indicated that there is a significant difference between the spiritual health, psychological wellbeing and couple’s communication patterns. It also became clear that the spiritual health and psychological well-being have the power to anticipate the positive and significant difference of mutual constructive communicational pattern. Spiritual health and psychological well-being have a significant and negative anticipating power for avoidant communicational patterns of avoidance and expectancy/withdrawal. It Seems couple’s awareness of the impact of their spiritual health and psychological well-being can increase mutual constructive communication and is effective in reducing inefficient communication between couples.