Creative Education, 2018, 9, 292-307 http://www.scirp.org/journal/ce ISSN Online: 2151-4771 ISSN Print: 2151-4755 DOI: 10.4236/ce.2018.92020 Feb. 26, 2018 292 Creative Education Comparison of the Stress, Sexual Disfunction, and Mental Happiness Coping Strategies in Two Groups of Normal Married Women and Women with Marital Conflicts Zahra Zanbagh 1 , Zahra Chabokinezhad 2* 1 Department of General Psychology, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran 2 Department of Psychology, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran Abstract In the era that rapid and unpredictable changes have happened in human life, the family is still one of the sources that have a prominent role in protecting people, their social and emotional support, but data from past decades indi- cate an increase in divorce rates both in the world and in Iran. The present research aimed to compare coping strategies with stress, sexual disfunction, mental happiness in two groups of normal married women and women with marital conflicts. The research employed a causal-comparative method. The statistical population included all normal married women and women with marital conflicts who referred to counseling centers in Yazd city in 2016-2017. To this end, 150 women (75 normal married women and 75 women with ma- rital conflicts) were selected using available sampling method. They com- pleted the Lazarus and Fulkman (1985), Female Sexual Function Index (ROS) (2000), Panas Mental Happiness (1988) questionnaires. Data were analyzed using ANOVA and Independent T-test in SPSS software. The findings showed that there is a difference between strategies for coping with stress, sexual dis- function, and mental happiness in both married women and women with ma- rital conflicts. Keywords Stress Coping Strategies, Sexual Disfunction, Mental Happiness, Marital Conflicts 1. Introduction People experience many changes throughout their lives. The most important How to cite this paper: Zanbagh, Z., & Chabokinezhad, Z. (2018). Comparison of the Stress, Sexual Disfunction, and Mental Happiness Coping Strategies in Two Groups of Normal Married Women and Women with Marital Conflicts. Creative Education, 9, 292-307. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2018.92020 Received: January 10, 2018 Accepted: February 23, 2018 Published: February 26, 2018 Copyright © 2018 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Open Access