This study investigated marital satisfaction among Korean immigrants spouses. It was hypothesized that marital satisfaction could be predicted from the level of acculturation, the number of years of U.S. residence, status inconsistency, annual income,...
This study investigated marital satisfaction among Korean immigrants spouses. It was hypothesized that marital satisfaction could be predicted from the level of acculturation, the number of years of U.S. residence, status inconsistency, annual income, educational level, conjugal decision making, household tasks, and communication problems.
A snowball sampling strategy yielded 304 respondents. Results showed that the level of acculturation was significantly associated to marital satisfaction for Korean immigrant husbands, but not for wives. Marital decision-making was significantly related to marital satisfaction for Korean immigrant wives, but not for husbands. Both level of acculturation and marital decision-making accounted for only 3% of the variance in marital satisfaction. For both husbands and wives, conjugal communication problems were the best predictor of marital satisfaction (16% and 37% of variance explained, respectively). None of the other independent variables was significantly associated with marital satisfaction.