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Marital satisfaction, idealization, adjustment and stability in different types of marriage

Supplementing previous research into the profiles of marital partners’ agreement across various areas of the relationship, this study aimed at exploring whether these profiles or types of marriage were systematically associated with various indicators of the quality of marital functioning. Both partners from 183 couples completed the Locke-Wallace MAT and a newly developed multidimensional inventory (UPBKO, Cubela Adoric & Jurevic, 2006), which assesses perception of the relationship along twelve dimensions as well as of the marital satisfaction, stability and the idealization of marriage. Cluster analysis of the agreement scores on the twelve relationship dimensions yielded five distinct patterns or types of marital couples: vitalized, balanced, traditional, disharmonious, and conflicted. As predicted, marital satisfaction and adjustment were the highest in vitalized and balanced couples, followed with traditional and disharmonious couples, and the lowest in the conflicted couples. A similar pattern was obtained for perceived stability and the idealization of marriage. Overall, the results provided support for the empirically derived typology of marriages, and suggest a cross-cultural stability of the most of the marital types (and their characterizations) that have been identified in the previous research.

types of marriage; marital satisfaction; idealization of marriage; marital adjustment; marital stability

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