Psychosocial Factors in Marital Satisfaction among Married couples in Benin-City: An Implication for Couple’s therapy.

Abstract

Marital satisfaction continues to be a significant phenomenon in the present day marriages. However, there has been a significant increase in the numbers of couples that come for couple's therapy in the last one year. Therefore, this study on the communication pattern, gender and age on marital satisfaction. 200 married couple was conveniently sampled. Index of Marital satisfaction and Primary Communication Inventory were used to measure marital satisfaction and communication pattern respectively. Chi-square analysis was used to investigate the relationship amongst all the variables. The result showed that there was a significant relationship between gender and marital satisfaction (X 2 =11.591; df=1; p<0.05), also, there was significant relationship between communication pattern and marital satisfaction (X 2 =23.683; df=1; p<0.05) while there was no significant relationship between age and marital satisfaction (X 2 =0.207; df=1; p>0.05). It can be concluded that gender and communication have significant relationships on marital satisfaction and as such should be a focus in couple's therapy.

The Role of Adverse Childhood Experience, Psychological Distress and Life Satisfaction on Marital Satisfaction among Couples in Lagos, Nigeria

“…It has been estimated that over 90% of the global population will get married at least once in their lifetime (Shackelford & Buss, 2000); similarly, every culture, race, religion and nationality favours marriage (Aroyewun et al, 2017). To the religious, marriage is viewed as an ordained institution established by God to create an enduring relationship between a man and a woman primarily for companionship, pleasure, procreation, and sustenance (Animasahun, 2011).…”

“…Although numerous studies abound on marital satisfaction in Nigeria, a standard narrative to most of the studies of marital satisfaction in Nigeria is to identify factors such as the length of the marriage and the number of children (Animasahun & Oladeni, 2012), socio-demographic factors (Ojukwu et al, 2016), communication pattern, gender and Age (Aroyewun, 2017), Communication and Coping Strategy (Abidin et al 2018), psychological factors, depression, affection and sexual activities (Adigeb & Mbua 2015), emotional intelligence (Anyamene & Etele, 2020) as predictors of marital satisfaction. Others are Age at Marriage, spirituality and religion, commitment, sexual relationship, communication, children, love and attachment, intimacy, conflict resolution approach and mental health (Karimi et al, 2019;Zaheri et al, 2016).…”