A Qualitative Study of Marital Satisfaction and the Newlyweds of Depok
- DOI
- 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.15How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- marital satisfaction, divorce, intervention
- Abstract
Divorce is a serious problem in Depok city. This might be due to low marital satisfaction since people with lower marital satisfaction have a higher risk of divorce. Using a qualitative approach, this paper explores which dimensions of marital satisfaction contribute the most to challenges faced by newlyweds in Depok. In-depth-interviews were conducted with six individuals who had been married for a maximum of five years and did not have any children. The data obtained were analyzed using directed content analysis. Results showed that from the ten dimensions of marital satisfaction assessed, communication, personality, family and friends, and financial management were the most common causes of the problems couples faced. Communication was mentioned the most, specifically, problems with comfortably exchanging emotional information. Problems with personality referred to unfulfilled expectations of a spouse’s behavior. In the dimension of family and friends the most mentioned problem was the spouse’s parents. Problems budgeting and handling egos while resolving financial issues were mentioned in the dimension of financial management. The implications of these results for future interventions and government policy are discussed.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Aditya Benyamin AU - Alvin Theodorus Larosa AU - Syifa Amania Afra AU - Eko Handayani PY - 2019/08 DA - 2019/08 TI - A Qualitative Study of Marital Satisfaction and the Newlyweds of Depok BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Intervention and Applied Psychology (ICIAP 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 179 EP - 190 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iciap-18.2019.15 DO - 10.2991/iciap-18.2019.15 ID - Benyamin2019/08 ER -