Harmonizing Women’s Personality to Increase Their Satisfaction with Marriage

Abstract

The article is devoted to the problem of the influence of the characteristics of the orientation of the personality as its backbone component on the family life of a person. It describes the results of a study of satisfaction with marriage, personality orientation, life-oriented orientations of women; correlations and connections between them, as well as the distinctive features of the orientation of women with varying degrees of satisfaction with marriage. It is shown that satisfaction with marriage is significantly lower in women with a predominance of personality orientation to the task than with a focus on themselves and others. Women who were characterized by independence, determination, strong will, restraint, unsociableness, calmness, self-confidence, high intelligence and were aimed at the best performance of work, achievement of the goal and the greatest productivity of activity, more often perceived their marriage as dysfunctional, not justifying their expectations and does not correspond to ideal ideas. Their striving for an ideal result, their readiness to sacrifice their own interests and those of their spouse for the sake of it worsened the emotional climate of the family, gave rise to intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts, and reduced marital satisfaction. It is concluded that in order to increase the stability and harmony of marital relations, as well as to satisfy them, purposeful work is needed to harmonize the value-semantic sphere of women's personality by reducing their "obsession with tasks" in the process of performing professional activities, moving up the career ladder, as a result fulfilling them at any cost while developing a general focus on communication, interaction and communicative qualities of the individual, as well as faith in one's ability to control and change one's own life.