COVID-19 pandemic brings tremendous impact on families, particularly on marital relationship. This paper reported findings on systematic review concerning the stressor and psychological problem encountered by married couples. We search in the Google Scholar database using the following keywords "marital satisfaction" and pandemic. We selected articles that met the inclusion criteria: original article, written in English, and fulltext available. From six articles that had been reviewed, we found out that either husband or wife are prone to domestic violence, working from home increase marital conflict because couples spend more time together every day and begin to know each other which often led to conflict. Fear of COVID-19 transmission influence sexual relationships and intimacy which subsequently reduce marital satisfaction. Marital distress and marital dissatisfaction were higher in couples who thoughts their spouses were irresponsive to their situation as marital conflict increased. Couples who believed that their spouses were responsive to their situation reported less marital distress and conflict and higher marital satisfaction. We conclude that during the COVID-19 pandemic, marriages are at risk and need psychoeducation supports designed for couples, particularly to improve their marital adjustment and communication, emotion regulation, managing conflict, problem solving, and building intimacy during crisis.
Pandemic COVID-19 brings tremendous impact on families, particularly on marital relationship. We reported finding on systematic review concerning how marriages survive against marital conflict during COVID-19 pandemic. Using the Google Scholar database, we searched articles using the following keywords marital conflict AND pandemic. Subsequently, articles selection was done using the following inclusion criteria: original article, written in English, and full-text available. From 86 articles that had been found, there were 6 articles that met the selection criteria and eligible for review. Data analysis reveal that marital conflict led to reduced intimacy then subsequently increase domestic violence. Working couples, particularly who have children whom following school from home, they reported increased stress at home. However, work-family conflict is low and manageable if social support from family members is available. Childless couples reported higher marital satisfaction than couples with children. Gender gap are wider as domestic responsibilities were not distributed fairly between husbands and wives which in turn influence marital relationship and put either husbands or wives at risk for being victims of domestic violence. We conclude that during COVID-19 pandemic, couple encountered major challenges that need to be addressed in healthy manner to survive their marriage. Psychoeducation program for couples is needed in times of crisis to prevent the escalated problems and to help couples build supportive marital relationships.
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