Purpose: A review of scientific reports during the last decade shows
an increase in marital problems and an upward trend of divorce
among Iranian couples. This research was conducted with the aim
of predicting the stability of spouses' relationships based on
religious beliefs.
Materials and Methods: The current research is descriptive-crosssectional and of the type of correlational studies. All the couples of
Tehran city in 1401 constituted the statistical population of this
research, which were selected as a sample with the available
sampling method of 250 couples who were willing to cooperate.
Allport's religious orientation questionnaire and Edwards et al.'s
marital instability questionnaire were used to collect information. In
addition to descriptive statistics, data analysis was performed with
Pearson's correlation coefficient test and regression with SPSS
version 26 statistical software.
Findings: The results indicated that there is a negative and
significant relationship between the stability of spouses'
relationships with external religious orientation (r=0.398 and
P<0.023) and between the stability of spouses' relationships with
internal religious orientation. There is a positive and significant
(r=0.613 and P<0.014). Also, the results of the regression analysis
showed that the total score of religious orientation could
significantly predict 28% of the variance of the stability of spouses'
relationships. Also, two factors of religious orientation together
could explain 21% of the variance of the stability of spouses'
relationships.
Conclusion: It can be said that religious beliefs are related to the
stability of spouses' relationships in married and family life, and
therapists and officials can take an effective step in strengthening
marital and family relationships by including religious programs.