The Association of Experienced Spousal Support With Marital Satisfaction: Evaluating the Moderating Effects of Sex, Ethnic Culture, and Type of Support

2004 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Xu ◽  
Brant R. Burleson
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Spousal Support ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Ethnic Culture

Put Yourself in My Work Shoes

2006 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Janning
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Spousal Support ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Occupation Category ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

Level and type of spousal shared work has been oversimplified in past research. This research proposes that being similar to a spouse, in the case of paidwork, differs depending on whether spouses shareworkplace, occupation, or both. And this level and type of similarity can influence the level and qualitative characteristics of work-related spousal support as an indicator of marital satisfaction. The results of this study are based on 52 individual semistructured interviews with each member of 26 professional married couples for whom work is shared in terms of occupation, workplace, both, or neither. The level and characteristics of spousal support vary to some extent by occupation pattern. Most strikingly, people who share both occupation and workplace feel that they work closely with their spouses and that working together has been beneficial to their marriages. However, the components of working together qualitatively vary by occupation category.

Does Marital Satisfaction Matter for Dyadic Associations Between Multimorbidity and Subjective Health Among Korean Married Couples in Middle and Later Life?1

2021 ◽  
Vol 52 (3) ◽  
pp. 508-536
Author(s):  
Seong Hee Kim ◽  
Susanna Joo
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Life Expectancy ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Later Life ◽  
Subjective Health ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Self Rated Health ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
Independent Variable

The present study aims to investigate how marital satisfaction moderates the dyadic associations between multimorbidity and subjective health. Data were extracted from the Korea Longitudinal Study of Aging in 2016 and 2018. The sample was Korean married couples in middle and later life ( N = 780 couples with low marital satisfaction, N = 1,193 couples with high marital satisfaction). The independent variable was multimorbidity, measured by the number of chronic diseases per person. The dependent variables were subjective life expectancy and self-rated health to represent subjective health. Marital satisfaction was a binary moderator, dividing the sample into low and high marital satisfaction groups. We applied the Actor Partner Interdependency Model to examine actor and partner associations simultaneously and used multigroup analysis to test the moderating effects of marital satisfaction. The results showed that husbands’ multimorbidity was negatively associated with wives’ self-rated health among couples in both the low and high marital satisfaction groups. In couples with high marital satisfaction, wives’ multimorbidity was negatively associated with husbands’ self-rated health, but this was not true for couples with low marital satisfaction. Regarding actor effects, multimorbidity was associated with self-rated health in both marital satisfaction groups. The actor effect of multimorbidity on the subjective life expectancy was significant only among women with low marital satisfaction. These findings suggest that there are universal and gendered associations between multimorbidity and subjective health in couple relationships.

Depressive Symptoms and Marital Satisfaction: Within-Subject Associations and the Moderating Effects of Gender and Neuroticism.

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 557-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Davila ◽  
Benjamin R. Karney ◽  
Todd W. Hall ◽  
Thomas N. Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Moderating Effects

The Moderating Effect of Religiousness and Spirituality on the Relation between Dyadic Sexual and Non-Sexual Communication with Sexual and Marital Satisfaction among Married Jewish Women

2016 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aryeh Lazar
Keyword(s):  
Marital Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Satisfaction ◽  
Sexual Communication ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Relational Satisfaction ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Moderating Effects ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Dyadic Communication

Moderating effects of religiousness and spirituality on the relations between sexual and non-sexual dyadic communication with sexual and marital satisfaction were examined. Three hundred forty-two married Jewish women responded to self-report measures. Religiousness moderated the relations between both sexual and non-sexual communication with marital satisfaction—for the less religious these relations were stronger in comparison with the more religious—but not with sexual satisfaction. Sexual communication had a unique contribution to the prediction of sexual satisfaction while both types of communication demonstrated unique contributions to the prediction of marital satisfaction. The implications of these findings on the role of dyadic communication in relational satisfaction and the meaning of sexual and marital satisfaction for the more and less religious are discussed.

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