Abstract

Objectives The purposes of this study are identifying whether disconnection and rejection schema out of early maladaptive schemas of married women can influence marriage satisfaction and examining and verifying the relationship between disconnection and rejection schema and marital satisfaction under the assumption that it will differ owing to commitment, which is a moderating variable.
 Methods For this aim, survey targeted 366 married women residing in Seoul, Gyeonggi, Incheon areas and statistical analysis of 300 surveys through SPSS 22.0 program.
 Results The following are the summary of the study results. First, it has been found that the relationships between disconnection and rejection schema, commitment, and marital satisfaction were all significant. Disconnection and rejection schema had significantly negative correlation with marital satisfaction and commitment had positive correlation with marital satisfaction. Second, as a result of examining how disconnection and rejection schema influences marital satisfaction, disconnection and rejection schema had negative correlation with marital satisfaction. Third, as a result of examining how commitment moderates the relationship between disconnection and rejection schema and marital satisfaction, the moderating effect of commitment was significant in the relationship between disconnection and rejection schema and marital satisfaction.
 Conclusions Thus, through this study, the relationship between maladaptive schema and marital satisfaction was examined by looking into the interacting influence of marital satisfaction and commitment of married women with disconnection and rejection schema and it has been verified that the level of marital satisfaction can differ according to commitment level. In that sense, this study is meaningful in the sense that it provided empirical data contributing to improvement of unsatisfactory marriage life. Lastly, the implications in counseling, education regarding maladaptive schema and commitment were discussed and this study's limitations and the necessity of follow-up studies were suggested.

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