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- Title
Marital satisfaction of Chinese under stress: Moderating effects of personal control and social support.
- Authors
Peilian Chi; Tsang, Sandra K. M.; Kin San Chan; Xiaoping Xiang; Yip, Paul S. F.; Yee Tak Cheung; Xiulan Zhang
- Abstract
Stressful life events, personal control, and social support were examined relative to marital satisfaction among 1749 participants in seven Chinese cities. Stressful life events were categorized as life crises and life transitions. Life crises, rather than transitions, negatively predicted the marital satisfaction of Chinese. The moderating effects of personal control were found among women, but not men, and occurred only in the relationship between marital satisfaction and life crises, not life transitions. Social support buffers the negative effects of life crises on marital satisfaction. The results extend family stress-coping theory in specifying two coping resources for Chinese marriages under stress.
- Subjects
CHINA; CONTROL (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation; AGE distribution; ANALYSIS of variance; STATISTICAL correlation; FAMILIES; LIFE change events; MARRIAGE; MATHEMATICAL models; SATISFACTION; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; SURVEYS; CITY dwellers; THEORY; DATA analysis; SECONDARY analysis; SOCIAL support
- Publication
Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 2011, Vol 14, Issue 1, p15
- ISSN
1367-2223
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-839X.2010.01322.x