Abstract
The importance of couples understanding their personality characteristic is germane to marital bliss and adjustment. This study examined self-esteem, emotional intelligence and coping skills as predictors of marital adjustment among couples in Abeokuta metropolis. This study adopted a non-experimental ex-post facto research. It is also correlative in nature. The target population for the study comprised all the married persons in Anglican Communion Churches in Abeokuta South and North Local Government Areas in Ogun State, Nigeria. Using simple, random sampling technique a total of fifteen married persons were selected from each of the churches, making a total of three hundred and thirty, married persons (330) from Abeokuta North and South Local Government Areas, Ogun State. The study used four instruments Coping Style Questionnaire (CSQ), Self-Esteem Scale Questionnaire (SESQ), Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire (EIQ), and Marital Adjustment Questionnaire (MAQ) to generate data for the study. Frequency counts and percentage were used for presenting the data obtained from the questionnaire. Pearson Product Moment Correlation and Multiple Regression analysis were used for testing the null hypotheses. The result shows that there is no significant relationship between coping style and marital adjustment, that there is no significant relationship between self-esteem, emotional intelligence, and marital adjustment. The study recommended among others that couples should endeavor to accentuate attitude of co-operative understanding, valuing partnership, demonstrating trust, general good will towards one another and positive values in their marriage while family counselors should organize workshops, seminars and conferences whereby couples would be sensitized on causes of marital adjustment and resolution strategies for resolving marital mal-adjustment.
Highlights
Marital adjustment is a process which is created during couples lives because it is necessary for taste conformity, person’s traits recognition, behavioural rules creation and relational models formation
The alternative hypothesis is hereby rejected in favour of null hypotheses and researcher concludes that there is no significant relationship between coping skills and marital adjustment
The study revealed that there is no significant relationship between coping skills and marital adjustment
Summary
Marital adjustment is a process which is created during couples lives because it is necessary for taste conformity, person’s traits recognition, behavioural rules creation and relational models formation. The importance of understanding each other personality characteristics is germane to marital bliss and adjustment. Personality is unique behaviour, thought motivation and emotion in human being and it is what makes an individual to be unique, strongly influence personal expectation, perceptions, values, attitude and even marital adjustment Tabinda [1]. Understanding the individual personality of the spouse is an ongoing process in marriage because even if two people know each other before or at the time of courtship, there is the possibility that people change during the life cycle. Calls for maturity that accepts and understands growth and development in the spouse. Sprecher [3] finds that relationship satisfaction negatively predicts the likelihood of relationship breakup for women in marital adjustment, but not for men. Sexual satisfaction negatively predicts the likelihood of relationship dissolution for men but not for women. Perhaps for men decreased sexual satisfaction leads to decreased relationship satisfaction, whereas for women, the reverse is the case
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