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Title: The relationship between level of religious devotion and marital satisfaction


1
The relationship between level of religious
devotion and marital satisfaction
  • Amanda Caddell
  • Kevin Utt

2
Introduction
  • Marriage
  • Social Norm
  • Marital Satisfaction
  • A satisfying marriage consists of
  • Emotional Support (Reis, 1990)
  • Intimacy (Hassebrauck Fehr, 2002)
  • Shared Values and Beliefs (Swann, De La Ronde,
    and Hixon, 1994)
  • Religion is an institution that directs and
    influences peoples values and beliefs

3
Introduction
  • Interfaith Marriage
  • Lower levels of satisfaction (Call and Heaton,
    1997)
  • Devotion in different religions causes marital
    instability. (Call and Heaton, 1997)

4
Hypothesis
  • Hypothesis
  • Similar levels of religious devotion will be
    positively correlated with marital satisfaction
  • Rationale
  • Difference in religion is related to marital
    satisfaction

5
Participants
  • Obtained through internet site
  • Demographics
  • 50 females and 15 males
  • Ages 18 to 50(mean32.12)
  • Married (mean7.78 years)
  • Highest level of education
  • 2 high school
  • 47 bachelors degree
  • 14 post graduate degree
  • 3 unspecified

6
Demographics cont.
  • Nationality
  • 54 United States
  • 10 other
  • 1 unspecified
  • Race
  • 47 Caucasian
  • 8 African-American
  • 4 other
  • 6 unspecified

7
Measures
  • Marital Satisfaction
  • Short Marital Adjustment Test (SMAT)
  • Measured adjustment to marriage and its
    satisfaction
  • 15 items
  • 6-point Likert scale
  • Relational Interaction Satisfaction Scale (RISS)
  • Measured relationship satisfaction
  • 8 items
  • 6-point Likert scale
  • Combined scores
  • a .95

8
Measures
  • Religious Devotion
  • Religious Behaviors Scale (RBS)
  • Measured levels of devotion by evaluating their
    actions in regard to their religion
  • 10 items
  • 6-point Likert scale
  • Religion and Me Survey (RAMS)
  • Measured religious devotion by measuring how
    often an individual actively applied religion to
    their personal life
  • 25 items
  • 6-point Likert scale
  • Combined scores
  • a .88

9
Perception
  • Religious devotion questions adjusted to reflect
    spouses perceived devotion
  • Example
  • I support the church financially
  • My spouse supports the church financially
  • Combined
  • a .91

10
Procedure
  • Study was posted on an Internet website.
  • Contacted list owners/moderators on Yahoo groups
    to distribute the website to the list members.
  • Churches were contacted via e-mail.

11
Procedure
  • Participants completed surveys
  • Couples matched by code
  • Submitting the data sent the participant to a
    debriefing page

12
Results Summary
  • Analyses emphasized comparison of difference in
    devotion and perceived devotion of spouse
  • New Variable Difference in Devotion
  • Self reported devotion score perceived spouse
    devotion score
  • No significant relationships found in
    correlations with demographics

13
Correlation
  • Correlation between difference in religious
    devotion and marital satisfaction
  • r -.79, plt.05

14
Comparative Devotion
Own Devotion gt Perception of Partner Devotion(n39) Own Devotion lt Perception of Partner Devotion(n22)
Correlation of Satisfaction with Difference in Devotion r -.62, plt.01 r .32 (n.s.)
15
Conclusion
  • The greater the difference in devotion, the lower
    the marital satisfaction
  • Specifically true for those who reported higher
    levels of religious devotion

16
Discussion
  • Spouses perceive marriage differently if they
    differ in devotion
  • People who reported more devotion than spouse may
    be different types of people than those who
    reported lower levels of devotion.

17
Future Research
  • Future studies need to examine the actual
    differences between the levels of devotion in a
    couple
  • Why do couples perceive the marriage differently

18
References
  • Call, V. Heaton, T. (1997). Religious
    influence on marital stability.
    Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion,
    36, 382-393.
  • Hassebrauck, M. Fehr, B. (2002). Dimensions of
    relationship quality. Personal Relationships, 9,
    253- 270.
  • Reis, H. (1990). The role of intimacy in
    interpersonal relations. Journal of Social and
    Clinical Psychology, 9, 15-30.
  • Swann, W., De La Ronde, Chris, Hixon, J.
    (1994). Authenticity and positivity strivings in
    marriage and courtship. Journal of Personality
    and Social Psychology, 66, 5.
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