Self-concept, values-systems and marital adjustment: Some implications for marriage counselors
✍ Scribed by C. F. Sharpley; J. A. Khan
- Publisher
- Springer US
- Year
- 1980
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 457 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-0653
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Identification of descriptive factors associated with marital happiness has often held few practical implications for the marriage counselor. The present research investigated the relationships between marital adjustment, values-systems, and self-concept for individuals and couples. Results indicate a high positive relationship between marital adjustment and self-concept, and between marital adjustment and people-oriented values-systems for individuals. Marital adjuStment was correlated with self-concept, and non-statistical data suggest a relationship between marital adjustment and people-oriented values-systems when shared by spouses. Implications for practising marriage counselors are developed.
Research into marriage often tends to be of a sociological nature (e.g., Lasswell, 1974; Lively, 1969) rather than psychologically-oriented studies carried out in more general fields of counseling (Bergin, 1971;Smith and Glass, 1977). As such, the definition of predictive variables has occupied more publication space than the study of factors closely associated with the counseling of marital problems. Although many descriptions such as age when marrying (Lasswell, 1974), socio-economic background of spouses (Bernard