investigating relationship between spiritual and religious orientation and positive feelings toward the spouse

Background: the present study has investigated the relationship between spiritual and religious orientation and positive feelings toward the spouse.method: method of this research, is descriptive of correlation type, and in terms of purpose, is a part of applied research. a sample with volume of 200 (98 females, 102 males) were selected randomly among the employees of kerman university of medical sciences. the data were collected using a positive feelings toward the spouse questionnaire and spiritual orientation questionnaire and has been analyzed using pearson correlation (r) and spss 22 software.  results: results showed that there is positive and significant relationship between emotional and sexual feelings to spouse with internal spiritual orientation and there is a negative and significant relationship between emotional and sexual feelings to spouse with external spiritual orientation   (p> 0.05).  conclusion: therefore, it can be concluded that spiritual and religious orientation, plays an important role in the positive feelings to the spouse.