Introduction: Infertility is a major health problem worldwide, with physical, mental, and social and as an event stressful, exciting and frustrating for couples arises that can give negative effect on marital adjustment. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between early maladaptive schemas and spiritual intelligence, infertile couples with marital adjustment. Method: Study, a cross - sectional study is of correlation type. The study population consisted of infertile couples attending the Infertility Center novin Mashhad, which was among the 102 persons (51 couples) volunteered and were selected based on sampling. The data of the Young Schema Questionnaire (Short Form), and marital self-spiritual intelligence collection and analysis of data, Structural equation modeling techniques were used. Findings: Correlation coefficients showed that in infertile couples, all aspects of early maladaptive schemas, a significant negative correlation with marital and between all dimensions of spiritual intelligence and marital adjustment, there was a significant positive correlation. Results of regression analyzes showed that the maladaptive schemas, schema cuts and rejecti on of spiritual intelligence scales, personal meaning production had the greatest role in predicting marital adjustment. Conclusions: According to recent research findings, we can conclude that, regardless of possible infertility, maladaptive schemas, especially the feeling of rejection cuts, lack of children, have negative effect on marital adjust ment in infertile couples or vice versa, spiritual intelligence, especially the ability to produce personal meaning in life, the child is absent, it can be positively associated with marital adjustment. So maybe we can plan appropriate intervention strategies to increase marital adjustment helped.

Keywords