Prediction of Success and Failure of Marital Relationship Based on Social Skills

The present study examines social skills (emotional expressivity emotional sensivity, emotional control, social expressivity, social sensivity, social control) as the predictors of success or failure of marital relationship in intact and divorce-seeking couples of AhvazCity. 128 divorce-seeking and 129 intact couples (514) consisted the main sample and 61 divorce seeking and 100 intact couples (322) consisted the validation sample. The divorce sample was selected from the population of divorce-seeking couples and the intact samplewas selected by the use of multi-stage random sampling. The Social Skills Questionnaire were administered to all the couples in the main sample. One hypothesis concerning the predictive roles of the social skills was advanced. In order to analyze the data both discriminant analysis and descriptive statistics were utilized. Findings revealed the fact that success or failure in marital relationship can be predicted from the variables of social skills. The results confirmed the hypothesis of this study. The results obtained and the modelspresented in this study are discussed in detail.