Mediating effect of coping style between marital quality and personality in spouses

Abstract

Objective To examine the relationship of marital quality , personalities, coping style in spouses. Methods Total 923 spouses were assessed with the marriage perception scale(MPS), Eysenck personality questionaire(EPQ) and simplified coping style questionnaire(SCSQ). Results The results revealed that psychoticism and neuroticism were both negatively correlated with marital quality(r=-0.24, -0.31, P<0.01), but intraversion/extraversion and lie were both positively correlated with marital quality (r=0.24, 0.14, P<0.01). And coping style was positively correlated with marital quality(r=0.33, P<0.01). Significant partial mediation of coping style on the association between personality and marital quality were revealed, and the mediating effect was accounted for 8.8% of the total effect. Conclusion Coping style is the mediator between personalities and marital quality. Key words: Marital quality; Personality; Coping style