the effect of realistic self-talk on increasing of women’s marital satisfaction.

abstract: the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of realistic self-talk technique in increasing marital satisfaction of women. this study uses an experimental design so 20 women were selected randomly from those referring to imam hussein mosque and assigned randomly in two “experimental” and “control” groups. those in experimental group received the technique of realistic self-talk while women in control group were not received any technique. the scale used in this research to measure the marital satisfaction was enrich questionnaire. in order to analyze the variables, covariance test were employed to study the significance relationships between experimental and control groups ‘averages. the analysis of the data proved the effectiveness of realistic self-talk technique in increasing marital satisfaction. research hypothesis for three components of, “communication”, “conflict” and “sexual relationship” were justified.