Gender, marital status and job satisfaction an empirical study mohammad tahlil azim associate professor department of business administration king abduaziz university jeddah, saudi arabia email. Marital satisfaction definition marital satisfaction is a mental state that reflects the perceived benefits and costs of marriage to a particular person. The sociology of religion focuses on an individuals social and married life. The impact of premarital and couples counseling 4 implementing problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities in the capacities of finances and marital responsibilities premarital counseling, 2011.
Personality types and marital satisfaction journalarchieves23. The association between christian religious commitment. Marital satisfaction is a positive and enjoyable attitude that the husband and wife have in different aspects of marital relations such as. Visit the journal of marital and family therapy youtube page to watch a variety of video abstracts for specific jmft articles. These relative declines erase the initial higher levels of marital satisfaction experienced by men married to younger wives and women married to younger husbands within 6 to 10 years of marriage. A brief research and clinical tool, abstract this article presents reliability and validity data for the 15item enrich evaluation and nurturing relationship issues, communication and happiness marital satisfaction ems scale. Leisure and marital satisfaction in intercultural marriages. This research performed the first focalized examination of the influence of spirituality and religiosity on the marital satisfaction of pakistani muslim couples and how religious commitment and religious practice strengthens the relationship of married couples. These results suggest the importance of examining both the positive and the negative aspects of workfamily balance in understanding marital satisfaction and highlight the mediating effects of mental and physical health in shaping how workfamily balance affects marital satisfaction.
In a dual earner family an important feature is the division of work and family life. Couple communication, emotional and sexual intimacy, and relationship satisfaction. Pdf using transactional analysis to improve the marital. Forced marriage, education, marital satisfaction, married. The present study compares factors contributing to marital satisfaction and examines correlations between the importance of these factors and the level of satisfaction for three groups. Olson to assess the validity and clinical utility of the marital inventory enrich, discriminant validity study was conducted using a national sample of 5039 married couples. The role of attachment in marital functioning in this article, we investigate marital functioning from an attachment theory perspective. Marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood. A survey of factors related to marital satisfaction among married. Although marital satisfaction among military couples declined from 2003 to 2009, the divorce rate among them remained steady. The couples satisfaction index csi fetzer institute. Marital satisfaction the couples satisfaction index csi reference. On selfreport measures, husbands disclosure to wives was positively related to and predictive of husbands marital satisfaction. The marital satisfaction of differentlyaged couples iza institute of.
With fewer people getting married and more people getting divorced in western industrial societies, the study of marriage continues to be a topic of great interest us census bureau, 2012. This study was aimed to investigate the impact of logotherapy on marital satisfaction. Commuter marriage couples are those who live in two separate residences due to their work demands for at least part of the week, whereas single residence couples live in the same residences. According to the results, the marital satisfaction of married women. Sexual satisfaction in the marital relationship brien k. This study examined the effects of retirement status, length of retirement, and spouses retirement status on marital satisfaction. Effects of age on marital satisfaction of married people in sunyani municipality dabone, kyeremeh tawiah department of educational foundations, university of cape coast, ghana abstract the study was carried out in order to find whether age was a determinant in the marital satisfaction level. The role of demographic and socioeconomic variables, religiosity, psychological constructs, financial satisfaction, and financial. Results of multiple regression analyses indicated that marital satisfaction and academic.
During the fielding of ph wins, several survey participants. This paper investigates the marital satisfaction of the dual earner couples. Pdf the factors predicting marital satisfaction researchgate. Journal of marriage and the family, v46 n4 p92326 nov 1984. Jul 15, 2017 marital satisfaction declines with marital duration for both men and women in differently aged couples relative to those in similarly aged couples. However, for men there were no significant correlations with passionate love. Marital satisfaction is a key element of perceived. Infidelity, trust, commitment, and marital satisfaction among military wives during husbands deployment by myriam levesque mccray ma, american intercontinental university, 2007 bs, university of quebec, 2003 dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy psychology walden university. Although some previous research and theory suggest that retirement has salutary effects on the quality of marriage, we find no such pattern here. The factors predicting marital satisfaction article pdf available in the international journal of interdisciplinary social sciences. The longitudinal approach to predicting marital satisfaction has also found low neuroticism to be an important predictor. Problemsolving skills and affective expressions as predictors of change in marital satisfaction matthew d.
Results suggest that some marital interaction patterns, such as disagreement and anger exchanges, which. Marital satisfaction an overview sciencedirect topics. Article pdf available in global journal of health science. Us volume xv issue viii version i 14 g global journal of human social science 21y. Marriage counselors on marital success and satisfaction 10 might potentially impact marital success and satisfaction. Generosity and the maintenance of marital quality this study examined whether generosity in marriage was associated with marital quality. Marital satisfaction and its associated factors at. Therefore, marital adjustment is a psychological situation that does.
One of the most widely documented findings in marital quality research is that women report lower levels of marital quality and satisfaction than men, although the magnitude of these differences is modest jackson et al. The more costs a marriage partner inflicts on a person, the less satisfied one generally is with the marriage and with the marriage partner. Pdf marital satisfaction in dual earner family iosr. Out of the sample of 78 married women who were randomly selected from the participants in life skills classes in tehran 39 were assigned to experimental group and the other 39 to control group. More specifically, this study examined 1 the challenges faced by intercultural couples that are related to their leisure engagements, 2 the roles of leisure in improving their marital satisfaction, and 3 the strategies used by couples to enhance marital satisfaction through leisure.
Examining the effectiveness of gottman couple therapy on. Important factors in marital success and satisfaction. Spouse support was a more important indicator of marital satisfaction for women. Marital satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in clinical. Marital satisfaction and passionate love arthur aron, lisa. To address the desired objectives, 240 married couples were surveyed and the enrich marital satisfaction scale to measure marital satisfaction was used as a major instrument. Asian indians in arranged marriages living in india n 229, asian indians in arranged marriages living in the united states n 185, and americans in. Beyond the intercultural differences in the way marital relationships are evaluated, there are also differences within the same culture that may bring spouses to adopt different criteria for marital satisfaction, influenced by. Workfamily balance and marital satisfaction american sociological.
Theories of marriage satisfaction our everyday life. The marital satisfaction of differently aged couples. Journal of family psychology 1993 by the american psychological association. The authors conceptualized generosity as a type of relationship maintenance behavior and used data from the new survey of marital generosity a national survey of married couples, n. Factors associated with marital satisfaction and quality of. Retirement and marital satisfaction journal of gerontology. All 95 subjects responded to a questionnaire measuring each of these variables, and an additional series of demographic variables. Self report measures for love and compassion research. The data suggest that marital satisfaction decreases after the birth of a child due to role conflicts and restriction of freedom. The relationship of religiosity and marital satisfaction. Using a sample of 310 married respondents from one u. Marital dissatisfaction, coping mechanisms, and the.
Cohan pennsylvania state university joanne davila state university of new york at stony brook erika lawrence university of iowa ronald d. The influence of psychosocial factors on marital satisfaction among public servants in cross river state 2200115 global journals inc. Johnson state university of new york at binghamton catherine l. One study that looked into the key factors for marital success and satisfaction was performed by billingsley, lim, caron, harris, and canada 2005. This study investigated the relationships among mindfulness, marital satisfaction, and perceived spousal similarity. This current study examined the relationship between marital satisfaction and. Highly personal information such as marital status, health status, and personality characteristics were not measured in ph wins and have all been shown to impact individual job satisfaction.
This study aims to investigate the role of marital satisfaction and personality traits openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism in predicting attitudes toward infidelity. It seems that cultural and other factors play roles in the relationship of marital satisfaction and personality characteristics. For women, passionate love was moderately correlated with marital satisfaction and with the six relationshiprelevant variables. Similarly, the greater the perceived benefits are, the more. The evidence linking combat deployments directly to poorer marital functioning has been sparse and contradictory. Key informant interview was used to collect qualitative data. Mindfulness and marital satisfaction the harvard community has made this article openly available.
Using the experimental research design, this study sought to investigate the effect of transactional analysis on improving marital satisfaction levels of christian couples in accra metropolis, ghana. The authors investigated marital satisfaction and academic selfefficacy in relation to psychological adaptation i. The effect of parenthood on marital satisfaction is more negative among high socioeconomic groups, younger birth cohorts, and in more recent years. Journal of international students psychological adaptation, marital satisfaction, and. Marital satisfaction refers to a global level of favorability that individual spouses report with their marital relationship. This study examined differences in marital satisfaction between first and second marriages and how additional factors can help explain satisfaction differences between the marriage types. The impact of premarital and couples counseling 4 implementing problemsolving and decisionmaking abilities in the capacities of finances and marital responsibilities pre marital counseling, 2011.
Midwestern state, a test was conducted to examine the association of financial satisfaction and financial stressors in a spouses decision to stay married to the same person or leave the relationship. A theory of marital dissolution and stability john mordechai gottman department of psychology university of washington. So the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between five factors in neo personality inventory and marital satisfaction among married university student couples in iran. For men, the effect remains similar across ages of children. The aim of this research was to analyze factors associated with quality of life qol and marital satisfaction in married family caregivers of patients with mental disorders. We found that a different pattern of results predicts concurrent marital satisfaction than predicts change in marital satisfaction over 3 years. Marital satisfaction and psychological wellbeing in. Personality traits and marital satisfaction in predicting. A total of 226 independent samples with a combined sum of 101,110 participants were included in the meta. Infidelity, trust, commitment, and marital satisfaction. This study aimed to compare marital satisfaction in two types of dualearner couples, namely commuter and single residence marriage couples. Furthermore, higher marital satisfaction was negatively associated with. Marital satisfaction and passionate love arthur aron. The marital satisfaction and its relative factors among older adults.
It emphasises role reallocation in the household and the impact of womens work on their psychological wellbeing and social status. Wives disclosure to husbands was a predictor of husbands marital. A discriminant validity and crossvalidity assessment blaine j. Langer,2 this study investigated the relationships among mindfulness, marital satisfaction, and per. Marital satisfaction, as one of the elements of family health, is affected by various factors such as social norms, customs, and expectations. The marital satisfaction and its relative factors among. Couples counseling marital counseling, also known as couples counseling, is a style of psychotherapy. Gender, marital status and job satisfaction an empirical study. This current study examined the relationship between marital satisfaction and sleep patterns with a sample of ten married couples. Jan 16, 2016 marital satisfaction is defined as the pleasure derived from being aware of a comfortable situation, usually tied with satisfaction with specific marital desires.
A significant positive relationship was found between mindfulness and marital satisfaction, with no statistically significant relationship found. The satisfaction level on various field of both male and. If your mortgage is under water or your father is seriously ill, this can take a toll on your marital satisfaction. Unhappiness isnt necessarily a result of boredom with each other or a sign that your relationship is doomed, but rather may be in reaction to challenges outside your relationship that can be dealt with and addressed. Sexual selfefficacy as one of the important aspects of female sexual affairs may be related to the marital. All aamft members benefit from an online subscription to the journal of marital and family therapy, the official journal of the american association of marriage and family therapy. The impact of deployments on military marriages rand. Financial satisfaction and financial stressors in marital. Taylor and croker 1981 suggest that religious believers seem to enjoy greater marital satisfaction especially if they are committed to their religious beliefs. The relationship between attachment styles and lifestyle with. Hobart and william smith colleges jana hackathorn, ph. The study of relationship between marital satisfaction and. Results from this study will add to the scant literature on marital satisfaction and sleep and provide practical application for professionals to help in. Couples experience marital satisfaction due to directional conscious feelings, such as friendship, and rational efforts.
The impact of logotherapy on marital satisfaction sciencedirect. Satisfaction survey of marital life in four types of family structure. One of the most important aspects of marital life is the satisfaction of couples. To develop a qualitative interview protocol to asses married couples perception of marital satisfaction 3. In addition, byrne, carr, and clark 2004 concluded that marital adjustment is a process with 4 aspects of marital functioning including marital satisfaction, solidarity, consensus and cohesion, and expression of emotions and feelings of couples in the family environment. Increasing precision of measurement for relationship satisfaction with the couples satisfaction index.
Marital satisfaction among dualearner marriage couples. Married family caregivers of patients with severe and. From such studies, it seems that religious commitment plays a positive role in the marital satisfaction of individuals. Problemsolving skills and affective expressions as. Couple communication, emotional and sexual intimacy, and. Examined relationships between selfdisclosure and marital satisfaction in 50 couples. In order to look into what factors helped build strong relationships. The ability to forgive ones partner may be one of the most important factors in maintaining healthy romantic relationships fincham, 2009 1. Research on marital satisfaction and stability in the 2010s. The marital satisfaction and its relative factors among older.