Relationships between different marital satisfaction of women with childbearing age and sexual life's satisfaction, personality characteristics, coping style and social support

Abstract

Objective To explore the relationships between different marital satisfaction of women with childbearing age and sexual life satisfaction, personality characteristics, coping style and social support. Method-s Three hundred and fifty-one complete cases were randomly obtained by means of ENRICH's marital satisfaction and sexual life satisfaction,EPQ,and etc,and further divided into high marital satisfaction(group A, n=170) and low marital satisfaction(group B, n=181) according to the mean score of the whole sample's macital satisfaction.Then comparisons were carried out between the two groups. Results (1)The means of sexual life satisfaction,Lacores and four indexes of social support in group A were significantly higher than those in group B(P<0.05),but P's and N's scores in group A lower than those in group B (P<0.05). (2) Stepwise multiple regression ana-lyses showed that only sexual life satisfaction (sβ=0.487) and objective social support (sβ=0. 158) entered the equation in whole sample (r=0.290). Conclusion (1) There axe significant differences of sexual life satisfac-tion, personality characteristics and social support among the women with different marital satisfactions. (2)Sexual life satisfaction, personality characteristics and social support are important influencing factors to marital satisfaction among the women. Key words: Married women with childbearing age; Marital satisfaction; Influencing factor