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- Title
Mechanisms and Strategies Involved in Marital Satisfaction Depending on Religion.
- Authors
Sava, Nicu I.; Popescu, Monica I.
- Abstract
Introduction. The study brings an element of novelty with a practical applicability with regard to human adapting to the hardships of life by revealing the unconscious defence mechanisms and the coping strategies. In order to highlight the adjusting models, we have introduced couples with various degrees of marital satisfaction and of various religions in our research. Objectives. The main objective of the research is to develop a comprehensive model for evaluating the mechanisms of couple members to adjust to the marital life, in order to create a map of marital satisfaction based on these considerations. This would allow us to make a comparative analysis founded on the religious criterion. Method. The method we used was the psychosocial survey, which comprises a guided interview concerning the quality of marital life, supported by the observation of the non-verbal behaviour. Results. We have evaluated the marital (dis)satisfaction, the defence mechanisms and the coping strategies on a lot of 176 subjects (88 couples), of various religions (Orthodox and Muslim). Thus, we obtained significant correlations between coping strategies focused on emotions and marital dissatisfaction and between coping strategies focused on action and marital satisfaction. We have revealed significant correlations between what we consider immature coping mechanisms and marital (dis)satisfaction. The maps we created for the two groups of subjects (Orthodox and Muslims) revealed differences consisting of: the use of a mature defence mechanism (intellectualisation) for the Orthodox - correlating with a high level of marital satisfaction - and the use of a reactive formation for the Muslims. Conclusions. The research opens the path for a new holistic approach and the introduction in the study of religion as a moderating variable reveals interesting latent factors, which belong to the vast array of influences on marital (dis)satisfaction.
- Subjects
MARITAL satisfaction; MARRIED people -- Religious life; HARDSHIP; COMPARATIVE studies; ORTHODOX Eastern Church members; MARITAL relations
- Publication
Journal of Experiential Psychotherapy / Revista de PSIHOterapie Experientiala, 2014, Vol 17, Issue 2, p3
- ISSN
1453-634X
- Publication type
Article