Pengaruh personaliti ke atas kualiti perkahwinan responden Cina di Sandakan, Sabah

The quality marriage that promotes satisfaction, happiness and peacefulness is dreamed by every married couple. Even though a lot has been studied about marital quality, this concept remains a mystery. This correlational study aims to determine the influence of personality on the marital quality amongst the Chinese in Sandakan, Sabah. A cluster sampling technique was utilised to recruit a total of 160 respondents from six housing areas. The respondents are Chinese who are married and have a complete family. Self-administered questionnaires were used to collect data. Neo-Five-Factor and Kansas Marital Satisfaction Scale were adopted for local used in order to measure personality and the quality of marriage. The results of the study revealed that low education (r =0.16), short duration of marriage (r = -0.20), less number of children (r = -0.26), low level of neuroticism (r = -0.31), high level of extraversion (r = 0.47), high level of openness (r = 0.33), high level of agreeableness (r = 0.47), and high level of conscientiousness (r = 0.44) will promote quality of marriage. This study finds that personality plays an important role in determining the quality of marriage