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

Abstract

This study examined the relationship between marital satisfaction, religious faith, and political orientation for 285 married Christian individuals. Participants completed a survey of three instruments, designed to measure one of the four variables. There was a slight positive correlation between marital satisfaction and religious faith and between religious faith and political orientation on conservative issues; there was a slight negative correlation between religious faith and political orientation on liberal issues. There was no significant correlation between marital satisfaction and political orientation. Of the 285 participants, 76 participants were matched; the 38 married couples were further analyzed finding differences between all spousal scores except conservative issues. Additionally, a linear regression supported earlier research that a husband’s strong religious faith predicted their wife’s marital satisfaction.