Religious Homogamy Affects the Connections of Personality and Marriage Qualities to Unforgiving Motives: Implications for Couple Therapy

In Ghana, collectivism holds people together in marital relationships, even if partners are religiously different. Married partners still hurt, betray, or offend each other and might develop avoidance or vengeful (i.e., unforgiving) motives. We investigated whether religious homogamy moderated connections of personality and marriage variables to unforgiving motives. Heterosexual married couples (N = 176 heterosexual married couples; N = 352 individuals; mean marriage duration 10.89 years) participated. Most identified as Christian (83.5% males; 82.3% females) or Muslim (11.9% males; 14.3% females). Couple religious homogamy was related directly to lower unforgiving motives. Religious homogamy did not moderate the connection between some personality variables (i.e., agreeableness and trait forgivingness) and unforgiving motives. Religiously unmatched couples tended to have greater unforgiveness at higher levels of neuroticism and lower forbearing, marital satisfaction, and marital commitment relative to religiously matched couples. One implication is that couple therapists need to assess partner neuroticism, marriage climate (i.e., satisfaction and commitment), and the general tendency to forbear when offended. Those can combine to produce unforgiving relationships, which might make progress in couple therapy improbable.

Familial Factors Influencing Creativity Among Married Employees of Financial Technology Organisations in Lagos

Creativity in the workplace is absolutely essential, especially in a financial technology organization in today’s global society. A detailed literature review reveals unclear connection of creativity with some family-related variables among married employees. This study is a further exploration to establish the role of familial factors such as commitment to marriage, marital satisfaction, religiosity and familism in the creativity of FINTECH employees in Lagos, Nigeria. The research was a cross-sectional survey of married employees within FINTECH organizations in Lagos. 224 married employees (135 are males) were conveniently sampled to respond to a structured questionnaire of six sections made up of validated scales that measured constructs of marital commitment, marital satisfaction, religiosity, familism and creativity. Three hypotheses were tested using Pearson product moment correlation, multiple regression analysis and t-test for independent samples at pα.05. Creativity for FINTECH employees has a significant positive relationship with marital commitment (r=.468, p<.01), marital satisfaction (r=.224, p<.01), religiosity (r=.328, p<.01) and familism (r=.452, p<.01). Psychological factors (commitment to marriage, familism, marital satisfaction and religiosity) have a significant joint influence on employee creativity (F (4, 223) = 24.766, p <.01; R2 = .295) and a significant independent contribution of commitment to marriage and familism to employee creativity [(β = .358, p <.01); (β = .287, p <.01) respectively]. There are no significant gender differences in employee creativity (t (217) = 1.656, p > .05). This confirms the hypothesized heightened relationship of familial factors with creativity of employees, especially FINTECH employees. This study rather brings a new suggestion that organizations should not just focus on the conditions of work at the office, or the pay of their employees only, but also give attention to the state of the family of their employees as this influences their abilities to deliver innovative ideas and lofty solutions to nutty problems within the work environment.

Religious Affiliation, Daily Spirituals, and Private Religious Factors Promote Marital Commitment Among Married Couples: Does Religiosity Help People Amid the COVID-19 Crisis?

Religious studies are a vital branch of social science that seeks to explain the beliefs of human society and deals with the practices and beliefs of individuals. This distinctive study focuses on such influential aspects of a healthy life, which could play a vital role in the marital quality and matrimonial commitment of individuals. The study principally focused on inspecting the role of religiosity in healthy marital commitment among individuals. It is a distinctive and central value in regulating a healthy social life. This research designed a conceptual model for assessing marital commitment, and the study model comprised two primary variables. The study received datasets through a survey questionnaire based on participants from five private and public sectors. The research study conducted an empirical analysis to test the proposed conceptual framework. The findings exhibited that the value of the R2 model was 0.484, meaning the level of religiosity had a substantial impression on healthy and lasting marital commitment. According to the final outline of the model factors associated with building religious support factors (β = 0.491), the marital commitment had a better and healthier impact. The goodness-of-fit of the measurement of the conceptual model showed a value of 0.51, which indicated that the theoretical model had sufficient consistency and rationality, and accurately fitted the data. Such an advanced statistical model is missing from the previous literature. The study results provide helpful insight to elucidate the social dynamics of marital commitment. The findings designate that religious practices strengthen and promote nuptial commitment. The study is novel in the context of religiosity impact on martial commitment with a cultural background of Pakistan. The generalizability of the study does not apply to the entire population or other regions. Future studies can investigate other religious variables to explore further research findings. The findings are helpful for decision-makers and policymakers to concentrate on marital issues and challenges confronted by couples worldwide.

Effectiveness of Self Regulation-Attachment Couple Therapy on Marital Commitment and Sexual Function of Women with Extramarital Affair

Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of self regulation-attachment couple therapy on improving marital commitment and sexual function in women with extra-marital affair. Methods: Semi-experimental research method with pre/post-test and control group including follow-up was used. The statistical population included women with extramarital affair referred to the counseling center for women in the city of Sanandaj, Iran. Using available sampling method, 30 subjects were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (15 participants each). Marital Commitment Questionnaire (Adams, Jones, 1997) and Women's Sexual Function Questionnaire (Rosen, Grandon, Myers, Hutty, 2004) were used. The intervention group received self regulation-attachment couple therapy through 8 ninety-minute sessions on a weekly basis. Data was analyzed using mixed analysis of variance. Findings: Results showed that self regulation-attachment couple therapy programs significantly improved the marital commitment and sexual function. Follow-up analyses showed that these results remained stable after three months (P<0/001). Conclusion: self regulation-attachment couple therapy approach by helping women achieve greater adjustment in relationship, dialogue and negotiation, increasing the ability to interact and improve the marital commitment and sexual function in women with extramarital affair. Discussions: The findings of the present study show that studying counseling and internship in this field has influenced students’ views of marriage and marital relationships in various ways.

The relationship between sexual satisfaction and marital commitment among married women in Iran

Sexual satisfaction is one of the factors affecting interpersonal relationships. The purpose of this research was to determine the relationship between sexual satisfaction and marital commitment among married women in Neyshabur, Iran in 2019. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 330 married women. The instruments used were Larsson sexual satisfaction and marital commitment Adams questionnaire. The collected data were entered in to SPSS software with version 20 and using descriptive statistic methods, The Pearson’s correlation analysis and ANOVA tests were used. The mean age of women was 23.92±3.96 years. In addition, 7(2.12%), 37(11.21%), 148(44.84%) and 138(41.81%) of women showed zero, low, moderate, and high levels of sexual satisfaction. Marital commitment was positively correlated with the overall sexual satisfaction (r = 0.67, P < 0.001). Moreover, marital commitment was associated with High sexual satisfaction n (r = .69, p < .001), Medium sexual satisfaction (r=.52, p < .001), Law of sexual satisfaction (r=.39, p < .001) Lack of sexual satisfaction (r=.19, p < .001), subscales of sexual satisfaction. Women with shorter marriage levels had higher sexual satisfaction and marital commitment. Therefore, health planners should adopt strategies to increase sexual satisfaction, marital commitment in women with longer marriage levels.

Understanding the Relationship between Religiosity and Marital Commitment to Marital Stability: An Investigation on Indonesian Female Journalists

The complete understanding of marital stability is hindered by limitations of theory and method, especially investigation on female journalists. The purpose of the current study was to test the effect of religiosity and marital commitment on the marital stability, by assessing Indonesian female journalists. This research used a quantitative approach with multiple regression analysis methods. The sample of this study involved 200 married female journalists residing in Jakarta and were taken using non-probability sampling techniques, specifically purposive sampling. The measurements used in this study were adaptations of the (1) Marital Stability Scale; (2) Centrality of Religiosity Scale (CRS-15); and (3) Inventory of Marital Commitments. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was used to test the validity of each scale. The results of the F-test showed a p-value = 0.000 (significant), and a total variance explained (R2 value) of 0.224. This finding indicated that religiosity and marital commitment have a significant effect on marital stability (sig < 0.05). The direction of the coefficient regression of the religiosity variable and marital commitment is positive, indicating that the higher the religiosity and marital commitment, the higher the marital stability.

“HUBUNGAN ANTARA RASA SYUKUR (GRATITUDE) DAN KEPERCAYAAN (TRUST) DENGAN KOMITMEN PERNIKAHAN (MARITAL COMMITMENT) PADA ISTRI YANG BEKERJA”

Abstrak Peneltian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui hubungan antara rasa syukur dan kepercayaan dengan komitmen pernikahan pada istri yang bekerja. Penelitian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan pendekatan kuantitatif korelasional. Responden penelitian terdiri dari 350 istri yang bekerja di Kota Makassar yang berada pada masa dewasa awal dibawah 40 tahun dengan usia pernikahan minimal 5 tahun. Penelitian ini menggunakan skala Gratitude Resentment and Appreciation Test – Short Form (GRAT), Trust In Close Relationship Scale dan Marital Components of Commitment Scale (MCC) yang telah diadaptasi ke dalam Bahasa Indonesia. Data kemudian dianalisis dengan menggunakan teknik analisis product moment dari pearson.Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa terdapat hubungan yang positif, searah dan signifikan antara rasa syukur dengan komitmen pernikahan pada istri yang bekerja dengan nilai koefisien korelasi (r) cenderung lemah yaitu hanya sebesar 0.340 (p= 0.00). Selanjutnya, untuk hubungan antara kepercayaan dan komitmen pernikahan diperoleh nilai koefisien korelasi (r) sebesar 0.387 (p= 0.00) yang berarti terdapat hubungan yang positif, searah dan signifikan antara kepercayaan dengan komitmen pernikahan pada istri yang bekerja. da pada posisi relasi sejajar dengan orang-orang yang ada di sekKeywords: Rasa syukur, Kepercayaan, Komitmen pernikahan