Abstract

This study investigated the relation between dysfunctional attitudes, marital communication patterns and marital satisfaction in married women's depression and normal married women. Major findings of this study were as follows: (1) Marital satisfaction was negatively related to marital durations, age, and the number of children. (2) Depressive group showed significantly lower marital satisfaction and constructive communication patterns than normal group. Also, Depressive group showed significantly higher destructive, avoidant, demand-withdraw communication patterns and approval need, perfectionism, performance evaluation. (3) In depressive group, marital satisfaction was negatively related to avoidant, wife demand-husband withdraw communication patterns and dysfunctional attitudes. (4) In depressive group, performance evaluation influenced to avoidant communication patterns, and approval need, perfectionism influenced to wife demand-husband withdraw communication patterns. (5) Finally, limitations and implications of the present study were discussed.