Relationships between financial stress, adult attachment, religiosity, marital communication and marital quality among Malay Muslim newly-weds in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
Various research had highlighted that marital quality are going downward trajectories and early years of marriage has been highlighted as the most crucial stage in marriage life. For years, factors influencing marital quality has always been the basic interest among family researchers and academi...
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2016
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| Summary: | Various research had highlighted that marital quality are going downward trajectories
and early years of marriage has been highlighted as the most crucial stage in marriage
life. For years, factors influencing marital quality has always been the basic interest
among family researchers and academicians and they have listed out various factors that
may influence marital quality. Nevertheless, less research has focused on the
combination of financial stress, adult attachment, religiosity and marital communication
in predicting marital quality among Muslim newlyweds. Thus, guided by Vulnerability
Stress Adaptation Model (VSA) this current study aims to examine the role of marital
communication as mediator for the relationships between financial stress, adult
attachment, religiosity and marital quality.
Data were gathered from 549 Muslim who were married less than 2 years at the time of
data collection . This study was part of the Exploratory Research Grant Scheme (ERGS)
research entitled “Exploring Marital Quality in the First Year of Married Life: Risk and
Protective Factors for Marital Instability” funded by Ministry of Education. This research
utilized correlational research design and sample of the study were recruited using
convenience and snowball sampling technique. Data were collected using five validated
and reliable instruments to measure financial stress, adult attachment, religiosity, marital
communication and marial quality. Instruments used in this study were InCharge
Financial Distress/Financial Well-Being Scale, Adult Attachment Scale, Intrinsic
Religious Motivation Scale, Dyadic Adjustment Scale, and The Three Couple Scale
PREPARED/ENRICH: Marital Satisfaction, Communication and Conflict Resolution.
All instruments were translated into Malay and data were analyzed using descriptive,
bivariate and multivariate analyses. Results of Pearson correlations showed that income, educational backgroud, financial
stress, adult attachment, religiosity and marital communication were significantly related
with marital quality among Muslim newly-weds in Klang Valley. Series of multiple
regression analyses conducted in this study highlighted that marital communication
mediates the relationship between attachment avoidant, attachment anxiety, religiosity
and marital quality. However, the mediation analysis between financial stress and marital
quality was not statistically significant. Finally, multiples regression analysis was
conducted to predict the most significant predictors for marital quality. Financial stress
were found to be the most significant indicators to predict marital quality among Muslim
newly-weds in Klang Valley. It is predicted that couples that encounter financial stress
will have lower marital quality if the problem was not tackled in the earlier phase of
marriage. Based on this study, it is recommended that future interventions and research
should focus more on financial stress and marital communication in studying marital
quality among newly-weds. |
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