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Marital Satisfaction Thesis

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Chapter 1: Introduction
This chapter explains the background of study, problem statement, objectives and hypothesis of study. From this chapter also talk about conceptual framework, conceptual & operational definition of key terms and the significance of study.
1.1 Background / Context
Based on the research done by U.S Census Bureau (1996) mentioned that marital trends over 94 % men and women have married one time in their life over the age 60, based on latest statistics. It means that, 80% to 90% people at U.S will married in their life at least one time based on the population and this style will be go on. The statistic also have mentioned that those people divorce from their married, more than half will married again (Kreider & Fields, …show more content…

During the marriages lasted longer than 20 years, man are worry about attachment that showed by their wife only when marriages. Frazier et al. (1996) come out with different result saying that wife marital satisfaction are no related to husband worried attachment, whereas it is no husband effect in wife anxious about the attachment. It also found that worried attached dating couples were marginally fewer of satisfied if their spouse were little in nervousness compared with others who had spouse high in anxiety. Feeney (1994) mentioned that worried in wife can reduced the marital satisfaction in both spouse only if the husband are uncomfortable with intimacy. Jones and Cunningham (1996) saying that only attachment style are the main effects on the marital satisfaction of wife and husband.
So, it seems compulsory to indicate the relationship between attachment style and marital satisfaction by research to see the effects of wife and husband attachment style and their dyadic communication that effects on marital satisfaction. The previous study was considered to search married couple for research study on attachment style (Banse, 2004). Therefore, this research was conducted to investigate and identify more specially in area Kota Samarahan, Kuching, …show more content…

According to the conceptual framework, the dependent variable is marital satisfaction. It consists of dyadic satisfaction and dyadic consensus. Marital satisfaction is dependent variable because marital satisfaction is variable that want to investigate and it depend on dependent variable. Attachment style is very important for married couple in marital satisfaction (Raeisipoor, 2012). Independent variable in this study is attachment style, it including secure attachment style, fearful-avoidant attachment style, preoccupied attachment style and dismissing attachment style (Broderick, 1988). This independent variable is a variable that will influence marital satisfaction of married

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