The relationship between emotional intelligence, attachment styles and optimism with Martials satisfaction

Purpose: the aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence, attachment styles and optimism with mental health and marital satisfaction of couples who refer to andimeshk counselling centers in the period of 3 months. material & method: 15o volunteer couples who were selected by applying multi cluster sampling method. measurement tools include emotional intelligence scale (wang and lu, 2002) adult attachment scale (collins and reid, 1990) optimism inventory of couples (rajabi, 2002) goldberg’s general health questionnaire (1989) and marital satisfaction scale (sanaee, 2001) were applied to measure variables. findings: the data analysis was performed by pearson correlation coefficient and step by step regression. results showed that there was a significant positive correlation between emotional intelligence, adult attachment scale, optimism, general and marital satisfaction. results of regression analysis show that emotional intelligence, adult attachment scale, optimism, general health can predict marital satisfaction significantly discussion: finding reveals for finding marital satisfaction couples should be able to emotionally and cognitively manage themselves and find optimism ad general health.