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The purpose of this study is to investigate the role of differentiation of couples from the original family in predicting the communication patterns and marital satisfaction in ethnic groups in Iran. In this descriptive-correlational study, the statistical population of the couples was Persian, Turkish, Kurd, Arab and Baluch. 250 couples (500 individuals) of the above statistical population who were composed of 50 couples of each ethnicity were selected through available sampling method and with the research tools including Hoffman's differentiation questionnaire (1984), Iranian Couple Interaction Coding System (2010) and ENRICH marital satisfaction questionnaire (1998) and were evaluated. The results showed that conflictual independence in men and emotional independence in women have demonstrated the largest contribution in theprediction of communication patterns and marital satisfaction of couples. Also in ethnicities, only in the Baluch men, conflictual independence was the predictor their marital satisfaction. A differentiated person in dealing with life's problems and has the ability to deal logically and rationally and can avoid emotional confrontation with issues. So these people have the ability to solve problems peacefully. The more differentiated a person is, the more he can lead his behavior thoughtfully and in accordance with the explicit principles.

Marital infidelity is one of the most common and also destructive phenomena in marital relationship. Individual, relat-ionship, and contextual factors are seen as important predictor of infidelity. The aim of this study was to explore the role of early maladaptive schema in ma-rital infidelity. The data was gathered through 3 focused group of schema thera-pist and analyzed by Braun and Clarke method. Result present there overarching themes, trait schema component, state schema component and further schema. The first theme was about schemas and coping strategy. The analyses show the role of early maladaptive schema in disconnection and rejection, impaired limit and other directedness domains andovercompensation and surrender coping strategy. Vulnerable child mode, impu-lsive child mode, punitive parent mode and detached self-soother coping mode is seen in state related component. At last, individual and contextual factors are reported as further schema component. In sum, early maladaptive schemas as an individual factor can be seen as a predictor factor in marital infidelity.