Relationship between spouses' religiosity and marital satisfaction

The aim was to evaluate relationships between spouses\' marital satisfaction and their religiosity. The study involved 64 married couples, selected using \"snowball\" method. Religiosity was measured by Allport and Ross ―Religious orientation scale‖. Marital satisfaction was measured by Spanier ―Dyadic adjustment scale‖. Results showed that marital satisfaction was positively related to spouses\' intrinsic religiosity, but no links were found between marital satisfaction and extrinsic religiosity. It was also found that spouses\' with intrinsic religiosity feel higher satisfaction with marriage than couples with extrinsic religiosity. There was no statistically significant difference found between the spouses\' with similarly and with differently expressed religiosity. However spouses\' with a similar intrinsic religiosity expressed higher marital satisfaction than spouses\' with a similar extrinsic religiosity. Some gender differences were found also. Increasing husband‘s intrinsic religiosity was related to increase of both spouses\' marital satisfaction; increasing wife‘s extrinsic religiosity was related to decrease of her marital satisfactionPsichologijos katedraVytauto Didžiojo universiteta