Marital Quality and Well-Being: The Role of Gender, Marital Duration, Social Support and Cultural Context

Pateraki, Eleni; Roussi, Pagona

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“…Aspek-aspek dalam hubungan yang penting, seperti: saling mendukung, komunikasi yang positif, menjalin kedekatan, dan kepedulian (Pateraki & Roussi, 2013;Rohmah et al, 2017) krusial untuk dikembangkan oleh pasangan. Tidak hanya pasangan saja, tetapi pihak-pihak diluar pasangan seperti keluarga besar dan teman juga diharapkan memberikan dukungan (Pateraki & Roussi, 2013). Jika diperlukan, program-program peningkatan kualitas relasi pasangan pernikahan yang diberikan oleh profesional secara terstruktur dapat menjadi pilihan pasangan untuk diikuti (Blanchard, Hawkins, Baldwin, & Fawcett, 2009;Halford et al, 2010;Isanezhad, Ahmadi, & Etemadi, 2010).…”

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Hubungan Kualitas Pernikahan Dengan Kebahagiaan Dan Kepuasan Hidup Pribadi: Studi Pada Individu Dengan Usia Pernikahan 1-5 Tahun Di Bandung

Kendhawati

Purba

2019

Jurnal Psikologi

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Marriage is proven to be related to health and well-being of those involved in it. However, the status of marriage is not the most important, but how the quality of the marriage is the key to its positive effects. This study aims to examine a relationship between marital quality with happiness and life satisfaction. Data collection was conducted on 189 participants who have married with less than five years, said to be a critical period, which are living in the city of Bandung. The marital quality was measured using the Quality Marriage Index/QMI (6 items; α= .91), happiness was measured using the Happiness Thermometer at three time points (3 items; α= .83), and life satisfaction was measured using the Self-Anchoring Cantril Striving Scale at three time points (3 items; α= .47). The Spearman correlation test found that there was a significant positive relationship between the marital quality and happiness at three time points: today (rs= 0.431), last month (rs= 0.409), and throughout life (rs= 0.415) and life satisfaction at two time points: now (rs= 0.460) and next five years (rs= 0.281). In addition, life satisfaction of five years ago when subjects were still single was reported to be significantly lower compare to their life satisfaction this moment and predicted five years from now (p<0.001). These findings suggest that married couple giving more attention to improving the quality of their marriage relationship in order to be happier and satisfied with their life.

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Hubungan Kualitas Pernikahan Dengan Kebahagiaan Dan Kepuasan Hidup Pribadi: Studi Pada Individu Dengan Usia Pernikahan 1-5 Tahun Di Bandung

Kendhawati

Purba

2019

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“…It is as old as the mankind (Juvva & Bhatti, 2006), and a complex relationship structure that requires a consistent sexual engagement under certain rules and conventions (Blood, 1969;Lantz & Synder, 1969).Other needs in the formation of close relations like marriage include making the relationship deeper, acting more freely, comfortably and like oneself around the partner, making physical intimacy more integral, enhancing psychological intimacy in this context, unifying the similarities and differences, and stretching the relationship rules and maintaining the relationship in a deeper flow (Duck, 1988). One may attach a greater importance to marriage for a more direct and strong relationship with well-being compared to the social bonds such as family and friendship among the types of close relationship (Blood, 1969;Pateraki & Roussi, 2013). The relationships established in a lifetime are a guiding force in the life of an individual.…”

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“…Functionality of marriage is very important in life satisfaction, emotional wellbeing and quality of mental health (Reis & Gable, 2003;Whisman & Baucom, 2012). When close relations which have different effects on individuals' psychological health cause unfavorable results in the lives of individuals, declines or deteriorations may occur in the psychological health of individuals (Pateraki & Roussi, 2013).…”

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“…Relationships have functional aspects that may cause several apparent changes in the psychological state of individuals (Reis & Gable, 2003). Therefore, since a satisfactory, successful and quality relationship is closely related to a strong psychological well-being, it continues to be a hot topic of research (Pateraki & Roussi, 2013). In this respect, an examination of a good life reveals that in addition to a happy and satisfactory marriage, a sincere and deep self-disclosure, a strong communication and bonds of social support between the partners are essential.…”

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The Mediator Role of Spousal Self-Disclosure in the Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Spousal Support*

2018

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This study addresses the mediator role of spousal self-disclosure in the relationship between the spousal support and satisfaction with the marriage. For this purpose, data was collected from 549 married volunteers who lived in Ankara, had a wage-earning job, and who were at least high-school graduates. The married participants of the study were applied the data collection instruments of "Marital Life Scale", "Spousal Support Scale" and "Self-Disclosure to Spouse Scale". A relational screening model was used to study the relationship among the variables of spousal support, satisfaction with the marriage, and spousal self-disclosure. The mediator role of spousal self-disclosure in the relationship between spousal support and satisfaction with the marriage was tested by a structural equality model. The software LISREL 8.8 was used to test the model of the study. The relations among the variables were analyzed by path coefficients. Based on an examination of the path coefficients, the hypothesis that the mediator role of spousal self-disclosure in the relationship between the latent variable of spousal support and marital satisfaction is statistically significant was accepted. In sum, the mediation effect of the variables of spousal self-disclosure and the spousal support explain marital satisfaction. The findings of the study revealed that the variable of spousal self-disclosure has a full mediator role in the relationship between marital satisfaction and spousal support. As a result of these findings, it is fair to say that married couples who disclose themselves more deeply and sincerely to each other have a stronger and more effective perception of intimacy and support, thus married couples are able to display more flexible and appropriate behaviors to their spouse, improving the quality of their support with the advantages of self-disclosure. One can say that a healthy self-disclosure between the couples makes the social support that the spouses perceive from each other clear, fluent and fit for the needs, and increase their marital satisfaction. In this study, marital satisfaction was analyzed under a structural model with the variables of spousal support and spousal self-disclosure. Marital satisfaction may be examined with different variables that may be supported with theoretical grounds to plan new research.

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Examining How Romantic Relationship Quality Influences Individual Psychological Distress Over Time for Men and Women

2018

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Marital Quality and Well-Being: The Role of Gender, Marital Duration, Social Support and Cultural Context

Cited by 8 publications

References 81 publications

Hubungan Kualitas Pernikahan Dengan Kebahagiaan Dan Kepuasan Hidup Pribadi: Studi Pada Individu Dengan Usia Pernikahan 1-5 Tahun Di Bandung

Hubungan Kualitas Pernikahan Dengan Kebahagiaan Dan Kepuasan Hidup Pribadi: Studi Pada Individu Dengan Usia Pernikahan 1-5 Tahun Di Bandung

The Mediator Role of Spousal Self-Disclosure in the Relationship between Marital Satisfaction and Spousal Support*

Examining How Romantic Relationship Quality Influences Individual Psychological Distress Over Time for Men and Women

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