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Family and Family Therapy 2017 Volume.25 No. 1 p.115 ~ p.136
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Self-Differentiation, Marital Satisfaction, and Commitment: Applying the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model
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Na Nam-Sook
Lee In-Soo
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between self-differentiation, marital satisfaction, and commitment in marital relations using Kenny¡¯s APIM (Actor-Partner Interdependence Model).
Methods: The subjects were 275 married couples. Actor-effect and partner-effect were applied to the relationships, demonstrating the qualities of self-differentiation, marital satisfaction, and commitment.
Results: Both husbands and wives demonstrated individual actor and partner effects with self-differentiation-influenced marital satisfaction. Only husbands' self-differentiation influenced the husbands' commitment. Actor- and partner-effects of commitment influenced the wives¡¯ marital satisfaction, and the commitment had an influence on their own marital satisfaction as well as the husbands¡¯; the husbands' commitment influenced their own marital satisfaction. As a result of the mediation effect of commitment in the relationship between self-differentiation and marital satisfaction, there appeared to be an indirect mediation effect on marital satisfaction through commitment, but only in husbands' cases. The actor-effect influenced by their own self-differentiation or commitment was more effective than spouses' self-differentiation or commitment.
Conclusions: Married individuals are more influenced by their own self-differentiation or commitment than by their spouse¡¯s. The results support the idea that partners in relationships are best off focusing on changing themselves, rather than focusing on changing the spouse.
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KEYWORD
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Self-differentiation, marital satisfaction, commitment, APIM
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