Marital Satisfaction, Negative Interaction, and Religiosity: A Comparison of Three Age Groups

Wilmoth, Joe D.; Blaney, Abigail D.; Smith, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/15528030.2014.997955

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“…However, often, there was no relationship between the control variable and the criterion variable, and, sometimes, the relationship was in an unexpected direction. These inconsistencies seem to be related to findings by Wilmoth et al (2015) that demonstrated the interaction effects of age and negative interaction with religiosity on marital satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 87%

Religious Activities, Christian Media Consumption and Marital Quality among Protestants

Wilmoth

Riaz

2019

Religions

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Although associations between religiosity and marital quality have been demonstrated in previous research, mechanisms still remain unclear. Three 3-step hierarchical multiple regression analyses were conducted to determine whether 10 individual, dyadic or family religious activities or uses of 7 forms of Christian media predicted positive relationship quality, negative interaction and intimate partner violence in a sample of North American Protestants. Joint spousal and family religious activities predicted higher levels of relationship quality. Individual activities, such as reading the Bible, and parent-child activities, such as praying with children and discussing Christians values with children, predicted lower levels of relationship quality. Listening to Christian talk radio and viewing Christian websites or blogs predicted lower levels of relationship quality. The authors inferred that individuals in low-quality relationships use activities such as reading the Bible, listening to Christian talk radio, and viewing Christian websites and blogs to seek information to improve relationships or promote healthy adaptation. Similarly, the authors speculated that praying with children and discussing spiritual values with them were seen as interventionary measures to protect children when parents were in low-quality relationships.

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Section: Control Variablesmentioning

confidence: 87%

Religious Activities, Christian Media Consumption and Marital Quality among Protestants

Wilmoth

Riaz

2019

Religions

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“…Similarly, results also indicated that couples who began with higher levels of religiosity had greater increases in time spent engaging in joint activities over the 10-year period of the study. Previous studies do indicate that religiosity has multiple, wide-spread benefits to marital relationship and may protect against marital risks such as having a high stress marriage or having been previously divorced (Olson et al, 2015; Wilmoth et al, 2015). Several reasons exist as to why religion is beneficial to marital and family relationships.…”

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“…Engagement in joint religious activities may be evidenced in multiple forms beyond religious attendance and could be demonstrated through praying together, forgiving one another, and discussing religious matters, joint participation in any of these activities may encourage the couple to become more religious over time. Considering that much of the current and previous work on religiosity and marital relationships has focused on the relationship between couples’ religiosity and marital satisfaction, we control baseline level of marital satisfaction to focus on the bidirectional influences between couples’ joint activities and religiosity over time (Fincham, Ajayi, & Beach, 2011; Perry, 2015; Wilmoth, Blaney, & Smith, 2015).…”

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Religiosity and joint activities of husbands and wives in enduring marriages.

King¹,

Wickrama²,

Beach³

2022

Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

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Understanding ways to strengthen marriage in middle age and beyond is increasingly important as the population of older adults rises. Using couple-level growth curve modeling in a sample of 371 middle-aged husbands and wives in long-term, enduring relationships, we examined the association between "joint activities," an index of couple connectedness, and "couple religiosity," an index focused on active participation in organized religious activities, across a 10-year period, using data from the years of 1991, 1992, 1994, and 2001. Confirming expectations there was a bidirectional and positive relationship between couples' religiosity and joint activities. Follow-up analyses indicated that greater religiosity at baseline or greater levels of joint activities at baseline produced particularly strong cross-lagged effects when the other construct was initially low, suggesting that these constructs are mutually protective in long-term marital dyads and become more tightly connected across later middle age. Exploratory comparisons of separate models for husbands and wives indicated that effects were stronger among wives.

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“…In addition to the couple types characteristics, the high degree of cohesion value in traditional couples might also be related to the characteristic of the participants, who were newlywed couples with the mean duration of the marriage at 20.75 months. Even though the newlywed in their early years of marriage are facing significant personal and relational changes (Lavner, Weiss, Miller, and Karney, 2019), but this period is also suspected of having a high marital satisfaction where marriage is perceived as highly pleasant (Lamanna and Reidman, 2012;Wilmoth, Blaney and Smith, 2015). Therefore, the cohesion that measures the degree of positive interaction, closeness, and joint activity between partners occurs intensely during this period, especially for the traditional type couple.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Couples who marry through ta'aruf are two individuals who both uphold Islamic values in finding a partner. As both parties are basing their decision to marry on Islamic values, this refers to the similarity of their views as a joint worship activity in entering marriage, a matter that is positively related to marital satisfaction (Wilmoth, Blaney, and Smith, 2015;Henderson, Ellison, and Glenn, 2018). On the other hand, the procedure of ta'aruf with its limitations in courtship tends to lower marital satisfaction (Miller, 2012) since it limits the quality of knowing their partners before marriage (Kinanthi and Sakinah, 2018).…”

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Comparison of marital satisfaction by couples types in arranged (ta’aruf) married couples

Safitri

Ratnasari

2019

HUMANITAS

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One form of marital arrangements in Indonesian Muslim society is to get married through arranged marriages, popularly called as ta'aruf. Ta'aruf is related to the individual's religiosity, which may be associated with high marital satisfaction. This study aimed to explore the comparison of marital satisfaction by couple types in the context of marriage through ta'aruf. This research involved 62 persons as couples (M of age = 25.35 years old) in Jakarta as participants. The Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale (RDAS) and Relational Dimensions Instrument (RDI) were used to collect the data. The couple types were derived from K-Means cluster analysis on the RDI score which was further analyzed with one-way ANOVA to test for difference in marital satisfaction. The results show there is a significant difference in marital satisfaction among the couple types in the couples as general, and also particularly in men as husbands. However, marital satisfaction does not differ to the couple type among women as wives. Therefore, gender seems to influence this relationship since husbands and wives differ in their degree of marital satisfaction within the same couple types. The compatibility on the vision and marital scheme between the spouses may enforce to a high marital satisfaction.

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Marital Satisfaction, Negative Interaction, and Religiosity: A Comparison of Three Age Groups

Cited by 9 publications

References 70 publications

Religious Activities, Christian Media Consumption and Marital Quality among Protestants

Religious Activities, Christian Media Consumption and Marital Quality among Protestants

Religiosity and joint activities of husbands and wives in enduring marriages.

Comparison of marital satisfaction by couples types in arranged (ta’aruf) married couples

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