BROJ DJECE U OBITELJI I SPOL BRAČNOGA PARTNERA KAO PREDIKTORI BRAČNE KVALITETE
THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN IN THE FAMILY AND GENDER OF MARITAL PARTNER AS PREDICTORS OF MARITAL QUALITY

Summary/Abstract: A research was performed with the aim to check whether the number of children in the family could be a predictor of the perception of marital quality of the marital partners. Two independent, five control and one dependent variable were defined. The independent variables were the number of children in the family and gender of marital partner. The control variables were defined as marriage duration, salary, number of rooms in dwelling unit, economic stress and need for economizing. The only dependent variable was defined as marital quality. Five hundred and five marital couples were included, as the sample of the City of Zagreb and Zagreb metropolitan area, representative according to the husband's educational level. The results show the number of children to be a predictor of marital quality both for wives and husbands before and after control for 5 covariates was performed. The highest level of perceived marital quality was obtained in the group without children, and no significant difference was found between the group having one child and the group with two and more children.

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