Background and Purpose: Meaning life is one of the predictors of marital satisfaction. According to Mulla Sadra's thought, the human soul can develop its material and spiritual talents and reach the highest level of meaning of life. To achieve this goal, Mulla Sadra discusses the relationship among love, immortality, and responsibility with the meaning of life. Therefore, this study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of
logotherapy training based on Mulla Sadra's School on marital satisfaction.
Materials and Methods: This present quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design was conducted on all parents attending to family education session held in a female vocational school, Isfahan, Iran, in 2019. The samples (n=30) were selected using the voluntary sampling method and randomly divided into two groups of experimental and control. The experimental group received a 10-session logotherapy training course based on Mulla
Sadra's School. The participants filled up the short-form ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale. The collected data were analyzed in SPSS software (version 25) using the one-way ANCOVA.
Results: The results of descriptive statistics indicated increased marital satisfaction in the experimental group, compared to the control group. Based on the findings of the covariance analysis, the
logotherapy training based on Mulla Sadra's School significantly improved the mean scores of marital satisfaction in the experimental group, compared to the control group (P≤0.0001).
Conclusion: Based on the obtained results, the employment of logotherapy based on Mulla
Sadra's School would be useful to increase marital satisfaction
.