Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage

Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage

Love is an important psychological entity in relation to marital satisfaction. Therefore, this study aimed to compare how married couples from three groups’ length of marriage (1-5 years, 6-18 years and 19 years) perceive love (intimacy, passion and commitment) and to compare marital satisfaction ac...

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Main Authors: Suzana Mohd Hoesni, Norba’yah Abdul Kadir, Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz
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Language:English
Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016
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spelling ukm-100942017-02-03T04:14:36Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10094/ Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage Suzana Mohd Hoesni, Norba’yah Abdul Kadir, Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz, Love is an important psychological entity in relation to marital satisfaction. Therefore, this study aimed to compare how married couples from three groups’ length of marriage (1-5 years, 6-18 years and 19 years) perceive love (intimacy, passion and commitment) and to compare marital satisfaction across three length of marriage. This study applied the survey research design using a combination of cluster and stratified sampling techniques. Questionnaires which were distributed consisted of ques-tions related to personal background, marital background, love and marital satisfaction. Malay mar-ried individuals residing in Lembah Klang from eight different locations who volunteered to partici-pate in this study were given questionnaires to complete. 310 participants (155 males and 155 fe-males) completed the questionnaires which later were collected for data analysis. Results showed that there were significant differences on how three groups length of marriage (1-5 years, 6-18 years and 19 years above of marriage) perceive love (commitment and passion). However, there were no differ-ences in marital satisfaction between the three groups length of marriage as suggested by previous research. Results indicated that love has an important psychological role at any stages of marriage. This research suggested that more research should explore the psychological aspects of love within marriage and its contribution to psychological wellbeing of married couples. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2016 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10094/1/226-884-1-PB.pdf Suzana Mohd Hoesni, and Norba’yah Abdul Kadir, and Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman, and Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz, (2016) Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage. Jurnal Psikologi Malaysia, 30 (2). pp. 32-41. ISSN 2289-8174 http://spaj.ukm.my/ppppm/jpm/issue/view/26
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description Love is an important psychological entity in relation to marital satisfaction. Therefore, this study aimed to compare how married couples from three groups’ length of marriage (1-5 years, 6-18 years and 19 years) perceive love (intimacy, passion and commitment) and to compare marital satisfaction across three length of marriage. This study applied the survey research design using a combination of cluster and stratified sampling techniques. Questionnaires which were distributed consisted of ques-tions related to personal background, marital background, love and marital satisfaction. Malay mar-ried individuals residing in Lembah Klang from eight different locations who volunteered to partici-pate in this study were given questionnaires to complete. 310 participants (155 males and 155 fe-males) completed the questionnaires which later were collected for data analysis. Results showed that there were significant differences on how three groups length of marriage (1-5 years, 6-18 years and 19 years above of marriage) perceive love (commitment and passion). However, there were no differ-ences in marital satisfaction between the three groups length of marriage as suggested by previous research. Results indicated that love has an important psychological role at any stages of marriage. This research suggested that more research should explore the psychological aspects of love within marriage and its contribution to psychological wellbeing of married couples.
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author Suzana Mohd Hoesni,
Norba’yah Abdul Kadir,
Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman,
Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz,
spellingShingle Suzana Mohd Hoesni,
Norba’yah Abdul Kadir,
Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman,
Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz,
Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
author_facet Suzana Mohd Hoesni,
Norba’yah Abdul Kadir,
Wan Shahrazad Wan Sulaiman,
Sarah Waheeda Muhammad Hafidz,
author_sort Suzana Mohd Hoesni,
title Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
title_short Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
title_full Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
title_fullStr Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
title_full_unstemmed Love and marital satisfaction among urban Malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
title_sort love and marital satisfaction among urban malays: comparing three groups length of marriage
publisher Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2016
url http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10094/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10094/
http://journalarticle.ukm.my/10094/1/226-884-1-PB.pdf
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