Aim and Background: Conflicts in the family create issues and problems at the individual, institutional and social levels. Marital conflicts and divorce after sudden death in the family are considered to be the most important stressors in the family. The purpose of this study is to predict marital conflicts based on life skills and attachment styles mediated by sexual satisfaction and love story of couples. Methods and Materials: The statistical population of this study included all couples who referred to counseling centers under the supervision of the Judiciary in Arak who had referred to these centers in a period of 6 months in 1398. The total statistical population was 600 couples (1200 people) and 146 couples (292 people) were selected as the statistical sample by available sampling method. Data collection tool: Hazan and Shiver Attachment Styles Scale Questionnaire (1993); Marital Conflict Scale Sanaei et al. (2000); Saatchi et al. 's Life Skills Scale (2010); The Larson Sexual Satisfaction Scale (1988) and the Sternberg Love Story Scale were standardized by (Alaei and Karami, 2007), all of which had validity and reliability. This study was a correlational study that was performed by structural equation modeling. Findings: The results showed that both sexual satisfaction and love story can play a mediating role in predicting marital conflicts based on life skills and attachment styles. Conclusions: Therefore, it can be concluded that sexual satisfaction can balance the relationship between attachment styles and marital conflict and reduce the rate of marital conflict. Also, the love story in the relationship between life skills and marital conflicts can reduce these conflicts.

Molavi is one of the shining stars in the sky of the persian literature. His Masnavi Manavi is one of the best sources of philosophy & mysticism in which love is mentioned as the most important in the world, on the basis of philosophy & mysticism.On the other hand, Plato is one of the outstanding philosophers in the western world. His philosophical ideas and intuitions are closely related. All these have made him a mystic philosopher.The purpose of this study is to compare and contrast thoughts and believes of Plato and Molana in terms of matters related to Platonic and non-Platonic love. Also some examples are given.

Life skills are considered the most important parameters in marital relations and life expectancy. Today, life skills are regarded as one of the most practical trainings for decreasing marital conflicts and preventing divorce. The study aimed at investigating life skills training effectiveness in increasing marital satisfaction and hopefulness. The study was an experimental research with pre-test, post-test with control group. Participants of the study included 20 couples assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group experienced a 10 session, 2 hour instructional intervention held once a week. The instruments of the study were Evaluating & Nurturing Relationship Issues Communication and Happiness Questionnaire (ENRICH) and Sneider and et al’s Hopefulness Questionnaire (HQ). The results demonstrated that there was a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test scores of the experimental group. The results also indicated that life skills training applications can strengthen marital life and increase couples, marital satisfaction and hopefulness.

Background & Aim: Divorce, as tragic social phenomena, has long been of interest to researchers. Marital satisfaction improvement through life skills training is one of the coping strategies with the negative impacts of divorce. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of life skills training on marital satisfaction in divorce applicant couples.Material & Methods: This research was an interventional study (pre-test and post-test with control group and random assignment). By using the simple random sampling, 32 subjects were selected (16 in each group) from divorce applicant couples who referred to Tabriz family courts since (2014-2015). After completion of the Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire, they randomly divided into control and intervention groups. After 10 sessions of group life skills training (3 hours\ twice a week for One and a half months) in intervention groups, the Enrich Marital Satisfaction Questionnaire was conducted again as a post-test in all groups. The data were statistically analyzed using Multivariate Covariance analyses by SPSS.16 software.Results: Results showed that life skills training have significant (P<0.05) effects on all aspect of marital satisfaction, except financial management, leisure activities and religious orientation in intervention group.Conclusion: Our results showed that attention to mental health needs and family problems in divorce applicant couples, have important outcome on marital satisfaction.

The purpose of this research was exploring the components of life skills in selected children's books. Among the books published for children, some are selected as the best books that parents, educators, and those who somehow deal with children accept them. These books were examined and analyzed to see the number and way of dealing with life skills. Content analysis method was used for this study. The statistical population consisted of children’s books and the sample were top winners the most awarded selected by purposeful sampling. The researcher selected fiction works that had won more awards in their own field and analyzed them based on the quality and extent of components of life skills. The results showed that empathy skills, creative thinking, communication skills, and critical thinking are the most frequent components in these books. In most of the investigated stories, the characters who had life skills were the successful and the characters who lacked skills failed at the end of the story.

Introduction: this study attempted to investigate the relationship between life skills and marital conflicts, and mental health (stress, anxiety, and depression) in the couples referred to consultation centers at Kermanshah police stations.Methods: the current study's statistical community was composed of all individuals referred to Kermanshah consultation centers in order to resolve their family issues. Among them, 180 were selected by the available sampling in order to collect data, questionnaires including life skills, marital conflicts, depression, anxiety, stress (DASS) were used. The correlation study design was applied. For data analysis, average statistical indices, standard deviation, correlation and regression analysis were used.Results: data analysis indicated that there are a negative significant correlation between self-awareness, human relationship and inter-personal relationship, depression and anxiety, and there is a positive significant correlation between marital conflicts and depression, anxiety and stress.Conclusion: it could be concluded that life skills play effective roles in mental health, and marital conflicts exacerbate couples’ stress, anxiety and depression.

Introduction: Effective communication and the establishment of a good communication pattern between husband and wife have a prominent role in marital satisfaction and can play a crucial role in creating a sense of security and happiness for couples. The purpose of this study was to conduct a meta-analysis, examining the effectiveness of life skills training on the marital satisfaction of couples. Method: For this purpose, the meta-analysis method was used as a statistical method to determine, collect, combine and summarize the research results associated with effectiveness of life skills training on marital satisfaction. To find and collect all research reports, internal databases such as, Magiran, SID, Ensani, Noomags, and Civilica, were used. Among all the studies conducted in Iran between 2010 and 2017, the articles that were methodologically appropriate in terms of population, sample size, research method, sampling method and measurement tools, have been included in the present study. Finally, 18 studies with the necessary criteria have been analyzed. Data was analyzed using standardized mean difference effect size method or Cohen's d (1988) for fixed effect model. All statistical operations were accomplished by Comprehensive Meta-Analysis, Version 2. 0 (CMA-2). Results: Results showed that the mean effect size of mixed-model for fixed effect model and for random effect model were significant (p < 0. 001), 1. 555 and 1. 925 respectively. Since the effect sizes were heterogeneous, moderating variables were examined. The results indicated that in terms of research design, gender, type of training, number of life skills training and status of participant, there were significant differences between effect sizes across the studies (p < 0. 05). Conclusions: Overall, teaching basic life skills increased marital satisfaction in Iranian couples. However, it appears that some factors had negatively influenced the effectiveness of these studies. More studies are needed to determine the reasons for the low impact of these interventions.