Introduction: The quality of married life is a dynamic and important concept that means the mutual relations of couples with each other. This affects all aspects of people's lives. By knowing the factors predicting the quality of married life, we can help to strengthen and strengthen these relationships. The purpose of this study is to determine the factors predicting the quality of married life of couples in a scope-based review study.
Methods: This study in 2022 with steps, study question design, search, which is in the databases of SID, PubMed, Magiran, Iran doc, Science Direct, Scopus and Google Scholar search engine with keywords such as "predictive factors", "marital relations", "Quality of life", "Couples" and their Persian equivalents were carried out and after that, related studies were identified from the period of 2012 to 2022 (the last ten years), the selection of studies, which after screening the title, abstract and full text of 281 studies, finally 18 studies remained to report the results. The studies that had unknown sample size and procedures and their complete content were not available were initially excluded from the study process. The quality screening of the studies was done using the AXIS checklist. Then the results were classified.
Results: The results of the present study are derived from 18 articles that were placed in six categories. The first class is the individual factors that were collected by carefully studying 8 articles and refers to age, education, number of children, length of time since marriage, parenting style, sexual relations pattern of couples. The second class is related to socio-economic factors, where 3 articles mentioned the relationship between financial status, place of residence and job. Psychological factors are also the next category, in 4 articles, the meaning and concept of couples, the individual personality of couples and records of psychiatric disorders such as anxiety disorders were mentioned.Physical - medical factors that include the physical health status of men and women were mentioned in 6 studies. The last class, which represents the cultural factors, includes the view of the woman and her husband on the relationship in the current life, the cultural and religious beliefs of the couple, information sources. An important point in the classification of articles is the overlapping of some articles in several categories.
Conclusion: The quality of married life is related to various factors, and by knowing these factors, it is possible to understand the predictive factors in the quality of married life, and by removing the negative factors and strengthening the positive factors, it helps to strengthen the quality of life in marital relationships.
Keywords: Marital life quality, predictive factors, couples