Abstract
Early marriage is a marriage carried out by couples less than 20 years old. The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship and the influence between emotional maturity and family interaction on marital satisfaction in early married families. Examples in this study are families who married early age selected by way of purposive sampling amounted to 30 people. The research was conducted in Bojong Gede Village, Bojong Baru Village, Rawa Panjang Village, Ragajaya Village and Pabuaran Village, Bojong Gede District, Bogor Regency. The results showed that husband and wife age at married, income per capita, emotional maturity and family interaction had a positif significant relationship with marital satisfaction, but famiy size and age of marriage had a negatif significant relationship with family satisfaction. Husband age faktor and family interaction have positif effect to marriage satisfaction, but education level of husband and age of marriage have negatif effect to marriage satisfaction.
Highlights
IntroductionThis study aimed to analyze the relationship and the influence between emotional maturity and family interaction on marital satisfaction in early married families
Early-age marriage is a marriage carried out by couples less than 20 years old
According to The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women or UN Women (2017) has been said that more than 750 millions of women around the world are married before 18 years old.,the report of United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund or UNICEF (2016) the early-age marriage in Indonesia from 2008to2015 showed that one of four children are married before 18 years old.the percentage of earlyage marriage in West Java is 29.3 percent (UNICEF, 2016)
Summary
This study aimed to analyze the relationship and the influence between emotional maturity and family interaction on marital satisfaction in early married families. The emotional maturity of wives still in the moderate category, there are still wives whose poorly interacted with the family, and still some wives felt plain in marital satisfaction. Emotional immaturity causes unpreparedness to face crises in family life which generally can be found in the early years of marriage, this has to be considered before adolescent’s couple get along to lead to satisfaction in marriage (Cole, Cole & Dean, 1980). Married couples who can have well-controlled emotions will form satisfaction in marriage and will affect the interactions amongst the family (Khalatbari et al, 2013; Anissa& Handayani, 2012; Morr & Canary, 2008). Compliance with a partner is based on the establishment ofmany fundamental things, for instance, honest communication, fair treatment, and healthy interactions
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