Keyword: «marital satisfaction»

This article analyzes the concept of love and its influence on life and marriage satisfaction. The results of the study show that positive ideas of love contribute to increased life and marriage satisfaction, while negative attitude to love lowers the marital satisfaction of married couples. The obtained data can be used in married couples consultation.

The article presents a theoretical analysis of the problem of the relationship between emotional responsiveness and marital satisfaction in adulthood. Modern approaches to understanding marital satisfaction, the phenomenon of emotional responsiveness and its structural components are considered. Special attention is paid to modern foreign and domestic studies confirming the key role of emotional responsiveness in ensuring the stability and quality of marital relations. The contribution of such directions as attachment theory and emotionally focused therapy to the understanding of the studied phenomenon is analyzed.

The relevance of this study stems from the insufficiently explored conditions that determine the content and methods of corrective intervention for married couples with varying marital durations. Identifying the determinants of marital satisfaction will enable the development of differentiated family support programs. The aim of the study is to examine the relationship between spouses’ perception of conflict and marital satisfaction as a function of length of marriage. The findings indicate that conflict interaction indices are negative across all groups, reflecting a predominance of negative (destructive) responses to conflict situations among respondents. Couples married for 4–10 years exhibit a higher overall level of conflict. A stable, moderate, and statistically significant positive correlation was identified between the constructiveness of spouses’ conflict perception and their level of marital satisfaction.