Marital Satisfaction: An Analysis of Long Distance Marriage Couples

Bramana Nanditya Putra,Afdal Afdal

doi:10.24036/00287za0002

Abstract

This research aims to describe marital satisfaction of long distance marriage and and the difference marital satisfaction between husband and wife undergoing long-distance marriages(LDM). . This research was a comparative research with a sample number of 45 couples who have LDM. Sample collection withdrawal technique using a purposive sampling technique. This research was measured using a Marital Satisfaction Inventory developed from ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Scale with a few adjustments. The research findings reveal that: (1) marital satisfaction of husband undergoing long-distance marriages is generally in medium category with a percentage of 70.25%, (2) marital satisfaction of wives undergoing LDM is generally in the high category with a percentage of 74.65%, and (3) there is no difference in marital satisfaction between husband and wife undergoing LDM with the value F of 4,940 with probability 0.029 smaller than 0.05.

Highlights

Marriage is a cycle of human life based on a legal commitment with an emotional bond between two people to share physical and emotional intimacy, share responsibilities, and source income (Ardhianita & Andayani, 2013; Rachmawati & Mastuti, 2013), the fulfillment of developmental duties (Hurlock, 2002) and forms a happy household and family (Amelia et al, 2018)
It can be seen that in general, marital satisfaction of husbands who have long-distance marriage belongs to the category of the medium while the general satisfaction of marriage wives who have long-distance marriage belongs to the high category
Based on table 1 above, it can be seen that the high level of marital satisfaction of wives who have long-distance marriage lies in the oriental religious indicators

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Introduction

Marriage is a cycle of human life based on a legal commitment with an emotional bond between two people (men and women) to share physical and emotional intimacy, share responsibilities, and source income (Ardhianita & Andayani, 2013; Rachmawati & Mastuti, 2013), the fulfillment of developmental duties (Hurlock, 2002) and forms a happy household and family (Amelia et al, 2018). The most important component in marriage satisfaction is love, intimacy, commitment, and passion is a positive thing in marriage satisfaction. If these three things can be combined well, the satisfaction at the wedding will be obtained (Carandang & Guda, 2015). Many couples choose divorce if experiencing problems in marriage (Amelia et al, 2018; Afdal et al, 2019) to build a happier new life (Harahap & Lestari, 2018)

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