Recognizing the Constituents of the Meaning of Life, Marriage and Matrimony of the Spouses Enjoying Marital Satisfaction

This research which aims at investigating the meaning of the life of the spouses enjoying material satisfaction, provides a pattern of the meaning of satisfactory life based on its findings. The statistical community includes satisfied couples from Tehran, among whom eight couples were chosen by purposeful sampling. The married life period of the selected spouses is less than 15 years and they have at least one child. The research used qualitative methods and semi-structured interviews were conducted in order to collect the data. In the first stage, each spouse was interviewed alone and in the next stage, the two were simultaneously interviewed. On average the interviews with either lasted 60 minutes and the interviews with both spouses 30 minutes. To analyze the data obtained from the interviews, the open, axial and selective codification is used in the research. In addition to identifying the constituents of the meaning of individual life, meaning of marriage and meaning of the marital life of spouses, the findings show that such characteristics like; semantic consistency, cooperation in conveying the common meaning and ability are shared by the spouses.