This study investigates marital satisfaction, emotional intelligence, and religious orientation among women with early marriage in Iran. The 'emotional intelligence scale', 'religious orientation scale' and 'marital satisfaction scale' were used and a rare set of data from 194 women with early marriage were collected. The results of Pearson's correlation showed a significant relationship between emotional intelligence and marital satisfaction (P < 0.001, r = 0.38), and age at marriage and marital satisfaction (P < 0.005, r = 0.20). The results of the multiple linear regression analysis showed that emotional intelligence (P < 0.001, B = 0.33) and age at marriage (P < 0.05, B = 0.90) are predictive of marital satisfaction among girls with early marriage in Iran and explain 16.4% of the variation of women's marital satisfaction. A greater understanding of the factors increasing or reducing the marital satisfaction may help the marital satisfaction of women with early marriage in Iran.

Introduction: work engagement is a stable and positive state of mind associated with work, which protects against job burnout. This study was conducted to determine the contribution of goal orientation, perceived organizational support and Big Five personality traits in predicting job motivation of female teachers in Shahrekord, Iran. Methods: The design of the study was correlational-survey. The sample included 230 female teachers in Shahrekord, teaching in high school during 2014-2013. The sample of the study was selected by cluster sampling. To collect data, goal-orientation, perceived organizational support, five factor inventory and job work engagement were administered to the participants. Results: Correlation and step regression analyses were utilized to analyze the data. Findings of the study showed that there was a significant relationship among goal-orientation, perceived organizational support, Big Five personality traits and work engagement (P > 0.01). Furthermore, multiple regression analysis revealed that linear combination of goal orientation, perceived organizational support and Big Five personality traits could predict work engagement of teachers (P > 0.01). conclusions: the present study indicated that different components of personality, goalorientation and perceived organizational support can create work engagement.

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