Ali Parvandi - Department of psychology and counseling , college of literature and human science , KermanshahBranch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran.
Mokhtar Arefi - Department of psychology and counseling , college of literature and human science , KermanshahBranch, Islamic Azad University, Kermanshah, Iran (corresponding Author).

Objective: The purpose of this study, was the role of family functioning, couples communicationpatterns and early maladaptive schemas domains in marital satisfaction prediction.Method: In this study, a descriptive and correlational design was used . For this purpose, fromamong teachers married men and women songhor city, 150 patients (75 males and 75 females),were selected with available sampling. Participants completed marital satisfaction Questionnaire(ENRICH) - short form (Olson, 1989), The Questionnaire of Family Functioning , Epstein et al(1983), couples communication patterns questionnaire ; Christensen and sullaway 1984), earlymaladaptive schemas Yung -75 questions form (1994) questionnaire. To analyze the data ,Pearson correlation and multiple regression method was used.Results: The results showed that among all the components of family functioning and maritalsatisfaction there is a significant negative relationship. There is positive relationship betweenMutual constructive pattern and marital satisfaction and a negative significant relationshipbetween demand / withdraw and avoid mutual Patterns with marital satisfaction. As well as allearly maladaptive schemas domains with the exception of other- orientation domain, had asignificant negative relationship with marital satisfaction. Regression analysis showed thatpredictive variables, respectively 0/66, 0/81 and 0/33 predict changes in marital satisfaction.Conclusion: family functioning, couples communication patterns and early maladaptive schemasdomains, predict marital satisfaction. Therefore, in the treatment of marital problems can beconsidered by the therapists

family functioning, communication patterns, early maladaptive schemas, maritalsatisfaction