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KMID : 1025820170250040760
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Family and Family Therapy
2017 Volume.25 No. 4 p.760 ~ p.785
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Mindfulness, Conflicts with Parents-in-Law, and Marital Satisfaction: Applying the Actor-Partner Independence Model
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Lee Eun-Jin
Lee In-Soo
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Abstract
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Objectives: The purpose of this study was to examine the association between conflicts with parents-in-law and marital satisfaction and to determine if mindfulness has an effect on this association.
Methods: The subjects were 192 married couples in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. The data were analyzed with the Actor-Partner Interdependent Model (APIM) and with Ping’s approach to path analysis.
Results: First, while the husbands’ conflict with parents-in-law had significant actor and partner effects, the effect on marital satisfaction of both the husband and the wife was not significant. Second, the husbands’ marital satisfaction was more strongly affected by their own conflict with the parents-in-law than the wife’s conflicts with parents-in-law; however, the wives’ marital satisfaction was strongly affected by the husband’s conflicts with parents-in-law. Third, both the wife’s and the husband’s mindfulness had no significant actor and partner effects on marital satisfaction. Fourth, the husband’s mindfulness had significant moderating actor and partner effects. Fifth, higher levels of husbands’ mindfulness was associated with higher levels of husbands’ and wives’ marital satisfaction.
Conclusions: Couples were directly influenced by the husband’s conflict with parents-in-law, and couples’ marital satisfaction varied in relation to the husband’s mindfulness.
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KEYWORD
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APIM, conflict, in-laws, marital satisfaction, mindfulness
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