CORRELATES OF SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL MARITAL SATISFACTION IN WOMEN
CORRELATES OF SUBJECTIVE GLOBAL MARITAL SATISFACTION IN WOMEN

Summary/Abstract: Seven hundred and seventy marriage couples in the city of Zagreb were included in the study of potential predictors of marriage satisfaction. Marriage satisfaction was defined as a global feeling of satisfaction in marriage (measured by 1-item 5-point scale), and only wife’s marital satisfaction was measured. Seventy seven potential predictors grouped in 5 blocks were entered into hierarchical and step-wise hierarchical regression. The blocks were: premarital partners’ characteristics, both partners’ perception of marital processes, objective and subjective economic status of the family, objective marital characteristics and out of- marriage influences. Five blocks of predictors explained 47% of dependent variable variance, with the block marriage processes contributing the most. The most important predictors of wife’s global marital satisfaction proved to be wife’s perception of sexual intimacy in marriage, love for husband, feeling of being loved by husband but also husband’s perception of sexual intimacy in marriage, and his less participating in raising children and strategic decision making.

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