en روانشناسی Psychology Original Article <strong>Background:</strong> The quality of the marital relationship has received more attention from family researchers in recent years; as many factors can affect and be affected by it. Therefore, this study made an attempt to investigate the structural relationships between anxiety attachment style, anger rumination, spouse forgiveness and the quality of marital relationship in married people.<br> <strong>Methods:</strong> The study population consisted of all married people in Shiraz. Among them, 204 married people (168 females and 36 males) were selected using the convenience sampling method and filling out Revised Adult&nbsp;<em>Attachment</em>&nbsp;Scale; Collins and Reid, Anger rumination scale; Sukhodolsky, Golub, Cromwell, Family Forgiveness Scale; Pollard, Anderson, Anderson, and Jennings, and Revision of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale Busby, Christensen, Crane, Larson. The method of research was correlation using path analysis. Then AMOS24 and SPSS24 were used for analyzing the data.<br> <strong>Results:</strong> Data analysis indicated that the path between anxiety attachment style to anger rumination, (p<0.000, &beta;=0.56), spouse forgiveness, (p<0.009, &beta;=-0.19), anger rumination to spouse forgiveness, (p<0.002, &beta;=-0.36) marital quality (p<0.001, &beta;=-0.16), spouse forgiveness to marital quality, (p<0.000, &beta;=-0<span dir="RTL">.</span>68) were significant. All the coefficients were significant in 0.01 level. Also fit model indicators were: GFI=0.99, CFI=0.99, TLI=0.98, RFI=0.97 and &chi;2/df= 1.57. The structural relationships of the anxiety attachment style, anger rumination, spouse forgiveness and the marital quality as proposed in the conceptual model were significant.<br> <strong>Conclusion:</strong> Based on the results, it can be said that that married people with anxious attachment style regarding the challenges of marital life, ruminate more anger in relation to their spouse, which can reduce the amount of forgiveness and, ultimately marital quality Marriage, Family Conflict, Forgiveness, Marital Quality, Anger Rumination 729 738 http://sbrh.ssu.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-373-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Zahra Naderi Nobandegani zahra.naderi@yazd.ac.ir 0000-0003-1646-6086 Yes Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education,Yazd University, Yazd, Iran Khadijeh Shiralinia k.shiralinia@scu.ac.ir 0000-0003-0412-9381 No Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran. Parisa Yasaminejad Pyasemi@gmail.com 0000-0002-0620-0420 No Department of Psychology, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran.