Zhaleh Refahi - Department of Counseling Marvdasht Branch. Islamic Azad University .Marvdasht, Iran.
Hamid Reza Momenzade jahromi - M.A of E Commerce
Fatemeh Goli - M.A of Family Counseling

The purpose of this research was to compare the marital commitment and coping styles of women with ethnic and alien (non-ethnic) marriage in Bandar Abbas. This research was applied in terms of objectives and a causal-comparative method was used to conduct it. The statistical population of this study consisted of all primary school students’ mothers in Bandar Abbas in 2014 and 2015. 194 subjects (77 people with ethnic marriage and 117 people with alien marriage) were selected as the sample size using the cluster random sampling method. The Marital commitment questionnaire by Adams and Jones (1997) and Coping Style Questionnaire by Lazarus and Folkman (1988) were used to collect data. The independent t-test and the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) were used to analyze the data from the questionnaires. The results showed that there is no significant difference between the marital commitment and coping styles of women with ethnic and alien marriage.

marital commitment, coping styles, ethnic and alien marriage