Religiosity and Marital Satisfaction: A Research Note
The variables found to be significant in previous research on the influence of religion on the marriage relationship were tested on Seventh-day Adventist married people living with their spouses. Relatively little research has been conducted on this group whose lifestyle and beliefs may seem more co...
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| Language: | English |
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1990
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Review of religious research
Year: 1990, Volume: 32, Issue: 1, Pages: 78-86 |
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| Summary: | The variables found to be significant in previous research on the influence of religion on the marriage relationship were tested on Seventh-day Adventist married people living with their spouses. Relatively little research has been conducted on this group whose lifestyle and beliefs may seem more conservative than those of mainstream America. This midwestern sample of 228 individuals completed a 63-item instrument that measured marital satisfaction with the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale. The strongest predictors for marital satisfaction were family worship and congruence with spouse on religiosity and church attendance (spouses sharing religious activities). Other statistically significant religiosity variables were an intrinsic religious orientation (which was the theoretical base), private and public ritualistic practices, religious experience, and salience. The single religiosity variables predicted about 30 percent of the variance on marital satisfaction and the scales predicted about 27 percent when demographic variables were controlled. |
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| ISSN: | 2211-4866 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Review of religious research
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3511329 |