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Gholam Mohammadi H, Ahmadi H R, Tehranchi A. Studying the Role of Coping Strategies, Communication Skills, and Resilience in Predicting Marital Adjustment of Employees of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences. MEJDS 2025; 15 (0) :113-113
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Studying the Role of Coping Strategies, Communication Skills, and Resilience in Predicting Marital Adjustment of Employees of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences
Hadi Gholam Mohammadi *1 , Hamid Reza Ahmadi2 , Ata Tehranchi1
1- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Counseling, Imam Reza International University (peace be upon him), Mashhad, Iran
2- MA in Family Counseling, Department of Counseling, Hekmat Razavi Institute of Higher Education, Mashhad, Iran
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Background & Objectives: Marital adjustment is an important factor in life satisfaction and mental health. A successful married life is related to marital adjustment, which includes the compatibility of couples and their living conditions, and ultimately leads to the stability and growth of the family and to the formation of healthy, correct relationships within the family. Choosing an appropriate and functional coping strategy helps increase mental health and adapt to stressful situations. Through communication, a person transfers information and data to others and receives information and data from others. One factor affecting marital adjustment is resilience. Resilience is the ability of people to adapt to the overwhelming pressures of life and overcome them. The increase in divorce rates and marital tensions threatens the foundation of the family, which is the center of peace, growth, and the health of individuals. In this regard, adopting strategies that help couples adapt seems essential. The present study was conducted to predict marital adjustment based on coping strategies, communication skills, and resilience in a non–clinical population.
Methods: The current research employed a descriptive–correlational design. The statistical population included all married employees of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences in 2022. The participants entered the study voluntarily and completed the informed consent form. The inclusion criteria were as follows: willingness to participate in the research, being married, absence of psychological problems, and not currently undergoing family counseling or couples' therapy. The exclusion criteria included unwillingness to participate in the research, psychological problems, and not being married. In the present study, all participants voluntarily participated after being informed of the research objectives and providing informed consent. They also completed an informed consent form. The research tools included the Marital Adjustment Test (MAT) (Locke & Wallace, 1959), the Coping Strategies Questionnaire (CSQ) (Folkman & Lazarus, 1988), the Communication Skills Inventory (CSI) (Jarabek, 2004), and the Connor–Davidson Resilience Scale (CD–RISC) (Connor & Davidson, 2003). To analyze the data, descriptive statistics indices (frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation) were used, and the Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were used in the inferential statistics section. The data were statistically analyzed using SPSS–24 software, and the significance level was set at <0.05.
Results: A total of 217 employees of Gorgan University of Medical Sciences participated in the current study. The mean age of the studied sample members was 37.76 years, with a standard deviation of 8.45 years. The lowest age was 22 years, and the highest was 52 years. Also, 56% of the participants were female (121 people) and 44% were male (44 people). Seventeen people (7.9%) of the sample members had a diploma or less education, 131 (60.6%) had a post–diploma or bachelor's degree, and 68 (31.1%) had a post–graduate degree or more. The results of the correlation coefficient showed a significant correlation between marital adjustment and all predictor variables of problem–oriented coping strategy (r=0.20, p<0.01), emotion–oriented coping strategy (r=–0.22, p<0.01), resilience (r=0.45, p<0.01), and communication skills (r=0.28, p<0.01) and based on the results of the regression analysis, communication skills (p<0.001) and resilience (p=0.004) predicted marital adjustment. However, the variables of problem–oriented coping strategy (p=0.706) and emotion–oriented coping strategy (p=0.254) did not predict marital adjustment.
Conclusion: The research findings indicate that communication skills and resilience positively predict marital adjustment. Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between problem– oriented coping strategy and marital adjustment, and a negative and significant relationship between emotion–oriented coping strategy and marital adjustment.

Keywords: Resilience, Coping strategies, Communication skills, Marital adjustment
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