Longitudinal Test of Forgiveness and Perceived Forgiveness as Mediators between Religiosity and Marital Satisfaction in Long-Term Marital Relationships

The Relationship Among and Between Marital Satisfaction, Religious Faith, and Political Orientation

“…Additionally, when examining all spousal scores (e.g., MS, RF, PO-CI, and PO-LI) as potential predictors of marital satisfaction, the only significant predictor was a husband’s religious faith on his wife’s marital satisfaction. This supported the earlier research (Rose et al, 2018) finding that husbands’ strong religious faith increased wives’ marital satisfaction. However, this study did not support the researchers’ other assertion that wives’ religious faith was predictive of lower levels of marital satisfaction in both the wife and the husband.…”

“…Additionally, a linear regression of the spousal scores on marital satisfaction supported earlier research (Rose et al, 2018), suggesting that a husband’s strong religious faith predicted their wife’s marital satisfaction, β = 0.14, t (33) = 3.26, p = .003; this also explained 33.7% of the variance in wives’ marital satisfaction, F (4, 33) = 5.71, p < .001. However, this study did not support the finding that a wife’s religiosity was predictive of both partners’ marital satisfaction.…”

“…That is, a religious spouse will tend to express more forms of devotion to one’s spouse (i.e., less criticism), which increases the marital satisfaction of the other spouse. However, in their study of 331 married couples across varying religious faiths, Rose et al (2018) found that husbands’ strong religious faith increased wives’ marital satisfaction. However, wives’ religious faith was predictive of lower levels of marital satisfaction in both the wife and the husband.…”

Latent profiles of sleep quality, financial management behaviors, and sexual satisfaction in emerging adult newlywed couples and longitudinal connections with marital satisfaction

“…We also included a binary control for whether the respondent affiliated with any religion during W2. Because religious affiliation could be associated with religiosity, which is associated with marital satisfaction (e.g., Rose et al, 2018 ), we included religious affiliation as a control variable.…”

Exploring the Relationship between Spiritual Well-Being and Marital Satisfaction among Urban Malays in Malaysia

“…Among the aspects of marital satisfaction that have been studied and linked to the spiritual aspect are studies conducted by Aman, Abbas, Nurunnabi, and Bano (2019) and Kasapoğlu, and Yabanigül (2018). In addition, the aspect of spirituality was also studied to understand sexuality in marriage (Hernandez-Kane, & Mahoney, 2018), religiosity in marriage (Aman et al, 2019), the relationship between spiritual well-being and marital satisfaction (Rajabi, Alimoradi, & Moradi, 2017), conflict styles, attendance in religious programs and marital satisfaction (Stinson, Bermúdez, Gale, Lewis, Meyer, & Templeton, 2017), forgiveness, perception of forgiveness and marital satisfaction over a long period of time (Rose et al, 2018), religiosity, duration of marriage, sexual satisfaction and marital satisfaction (Lazar, 2017), religious commitment and marital satisfaction (Kamomoe, Pinto, & Selvam, 2017), role of religion in marital satisfaction (Davis et al, 2018), religious commitment, forgiveness and marital satisfaction (Agu & Nwankwo, 2019), influence of religious commitment, forgiveness, and marital satisfaction (Agu & Nwankwo, 2019), spiritual intelligence, moral intelligence, marital satisfaction and social networking (Kamalju, Narimani, Atadokht, & Abolghasami, 2017) and spiritual experience, marital happiness and satisfaction (Avarandeh et al, 2019).…”