Original Article Predicting marital satisfaction on the basis of attachment styles and

Family is a natural social system that couples are its major subsystems in the all of stages of its development, and (the marital satisfaction of them is determinant in the both state of causal and target) many factors such as attachment styles and differentiation components play a role in their marital satisfaction. The aim of this research was to predict marital satisfaction on the basis of attachment styles and differentiation components. This research was a fundamental and descriptive research that was done in the shape of a predictive correlative design. The statistical universe in this research, were married workers of Tabriz University and Tabriz Medical Sciences University in academic year 2010- 2011. 200 people were chosen from this universe by considering the gender. After cutting the deficient cases, sample size reduced to 184 people. The age range of subjects was from 23 until 54. Enrich marital satisfaction test, Skowron differentiation of self and Hazen and Shaver attachment styles inventory were used for gathering the data. Correlation and stepwise regression were used for data analysis. The results showed that from components of differentiation of self, I- position and from components of attachment styles, ambivalent attachment style (P<0.001) are the best predictors of marital satisfaction. The research results support from this belief that the primary relationship in family environment, cause the shaping of special attachment style and states of low or high differentiation and these primary experiences have direct effect on couple's interpersonal relationship in adulthood.