The phrase
"change in marital satisfaction" refers to how happy or content someone feels in their marriage or relationship, and how this level of happiness can either increase or decrease over time.
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Many couples reported happy marriages and improvement in relationship satisfaction after their children left home, according to the study
Contextualizing Change in Marital Satisfaction During Middle Age published in the Psychological Science journal in 2008.
Controlling for these changes, own marital and sexual satisfaction were bidirectionally positively associated with one another; higher levels of marital satisfaction at one wave of assessment predicted more positive changes in sexual satisfaction from that assessment to the next and higher levels of sexual satisfaction at one wave of assessment predicted more
positive changes in marital satisfaction from that assessment to the next.
Several recently published or in press studies have also shown
significant changes in marital satisfaction including a pre -, post -, and three - month follow - up study of over two hundred Imago couples workshop participants.
Although we found direct effects as stated previously, there were no significant interaction effects
between change in marital satisfaction levels and the actual and expected reports of both division of childcare and household labor.
Extroversion variable processes 27 % percent of
changes in marital satisfaction (r2 = 0.278).
The square of correlation coefficient (determination coefficient) shows that conscientious variable processes 25 % percent of
changes in marital satisfaction (r2 = 0.254).
Variable of flexibility processes 27 % percent of
changes in marital satisfaction (r2 = 0.278).
The square of correlation coefficient (determination coefficient) shows that variable of conscientious, processes 25 % percent of
changes in marital satisfaction (r2 = 0.254).
So it can concluded that multiple Regression equation; that is conscientious (SIG — 0/000, F — 89.55) and flexibility (Sig — 0/000, F — 50.37) can be predictor of
changes in marital satisfaction.
We were also amazed that in our first study with 30 couples, we were able to «predict»
the change in marital satisfaction almost perfectly with our physiological measures.
They were also amazed that in their first study with 30 couples they were able to «predict»
the change in marital satisfaction almost perfectly with their physiological measures.
Here's where it gets interesting: When they followed up with the couples down the line, their self - reported attitudes as newlyweds were totally unrelated to
any changes in marital satisfaction.
Three couples with the greatest
change in marital satisfaction through the course of therapy [2](«high change couples») from the earlier 1985 study were compared to the three couples with the least change in marital satisfaction («low change couples»).
[jounal] Faulkner, R. A. / 2005 / Gender - related predictors of
change in Marital Satisfaction and marital conflict / The American Journal of Family Therapy 33: 61 ~ 83
The results in Table IV show that among men significant depressive symptoms in pregnancy and stressful life events differently predicted the quality of sexual affection and number of partnerships
the change in marital satisfaction.