Inclination to forgiveness and marital satisfaction regarding to mediator attachment styles'role

The marital life is mainly based on the satisfaction that couples feel to maintain in their current relationship. The present study aims to investigate the relationship between the inclination to forgiveness and marital satisfaction regarding to the mediator role of attachment styles among married students. Statistical population of this study includes married students who reside married dormitories of Allame Tabatabai University. The Statistical sample consist of 38 male married students were selected by available sampling. To collection of the data, Attachment Style Questionnaire, Family Forgiveness Scale, Marital Satisfaction Scale was employed, and Statistical Regression Method was used for analysis of the data. The findings show that the correlation coefficient is R-2= 0.679, the resulting regression analysis indicates that near to 46 percents of variable variance of marital satisfaction is predicted by attachment style and forgiveness level. Also, there is a significant correlation between the attachment style and forgiveness level as the predictor variables and marital satisfaction (p< 0.001) and they could predict marital satisfaction of married students. (c) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.