title: Marital satisfaction through the lens of Iranian women: a qualitative study.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  One of the common concepts to show the happiness and stability of marriage is the concept of marital satisfaction. Marital satisfaction plays an important role in the stability of marriage. This study was conducted to explain the perception of marital satisfaction among Iranian women.
  
  
  METHODS
  This study was conducted between March and September 2015 by common qualitative content analysis approach through semi-structured interviews and 19 participants were selected by purposive sampling.
  
  
  RESULTS
  With the analysis of data two themes: (maturity of personality) which included a sub-theme of blossoming of feelings, and (romantic interaction) consisted of three sub-themes of; mutual support, sense of peace and joyful dependence emerged.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Marital life can lead to the development of people and lovely interaction between them. Surely it needs to passing of time and self-knowing and couple-knowing of each other. Family consultants need the perception of how couple's interaction is, also they need to understand about couples who can communicate well to each other so they can overcome many life's other deficiencies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran; Department of Midwifery, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Shahrekord University of Medical Sciences, Shahrekord, Iran.
authors.forename: Zeinab
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Tavakol
authors.affiliation: Department of Reproductive Health, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Zahra Behboodi
authors.initials: ZB
authors.lastname: Moghadam
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical-Surgical Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Alireza Nikbakht
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Nasrabadi
authors.affiliation: Department of Research Center of the Quran, Hadith and Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Nikzad
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Iesazadeh
authors.affiliation: Critical Care Department, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Nursing and Midwifery Care Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
authors.forename: Maryam
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Esmaeili
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006240:Happiness; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D007492:Iran; D008393:Marriage / Q000523:psychology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D010549:Personal Satisfaction; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Iranian women; Marital; content analysis; personal satisfaction