The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship on the efficiency of the interspouse communication, decision-making style and marital satisfaction, so that the findings may offer them fundamental materials for the more reasonable home man...
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship on the efficiency of the interspouse communication, decision-making style and marital satisfaction, so that the findings may offer them fundamental materials for the more reasonable home management.
The research problems are as follows:
(1) What is the personal background variables influencing on the efficiency of the interspouse communication, decision-making style and marital satisfaction?
(2) How is decision-making style and marital satisfaction affect on the interspouse communication?
(3) How is the marital satisfaction affect on decision-making style?
(4) How is the effect of the variables on the housewives' marital satisfaction?
For the purpose of this study, 692 questionnaire were distribute to the housewives living in Pusan.
The data were analyzed by the satistical methods such as t-test, one way-ANOVA, Duncan's Multiple Range test, Pearson's correlation, Multipie Regression Analysis.
All the analyses were done by SPSS PC^(+) program.
The significant results are as follows:
(1) According to the personal background variables there were some difference among the efficiency of the interspouse communication, decision-making style and marital satisfaction.
(2) Decision-making style and marital satisfaction differs significantly according to the efficiency of the interspouse communication.
(3) Marital satisfaction differs significantly according to the decision-making style, for subarea were clothes, food, house, economy, family, child, leisure area.
(4) The relative importance of independent variables on marital satisfaction showed the efficiency of the interspouse communication(β=.70) housewives' education(β=.17), Income(β=.10), decision-making(β=-.08) housewives' age(β=-.08), husband's occupation(β=-.07).
This regression model showed that 55 percent of the marital satisfaction could be accounted for by independent variables.
From this results, the higher of efficiency of the interspouse communication, the higher degree of joint decision-making and marital satisfaction.
Housewives have positive attitudes for their life while husbands have active and open-hearted effort for mutual communication and social education program will be carry out at the same time.