In Western culture marriage is a major milestone for many people bringing with it many benefits such as longer life span, improved health, and more money. Ninety percent of the American population will get married at least once in their lifetime, fifty percent of those marriages will end in divorce (Washburn, Christensen, 2008). With Americans having a high rate of divorce, I wanted to discover if the state of a couple’s finances played a role in how the felt toward their spouse. Does a couple’s financial success or lack there of relate to satisfaction or dissatisfaction within their marriage?
A correlational design would be the best style for gathering data to see if there is any relationship between finances and marital success. In doing …show more content…
When a couple is experiencing financial problems this means there’s a disagreement between how and where income should be used (Kerkmann, 2000). These disagreements could be anything from an expensive medical bill, debt a spouse accumulated before the marriage, moving to a new house, or a spouse losing their job (Britt, Grable, Goff, White, 2008).
Financial harmony can be described as the opposite of financial problems. Having financial harmony, both partners in a marriage recognize the importance of money, and take an active role in ensuring they make wise financial decisions. Financial harmony can bring about feelings of closeness and trust within a marriage, which promote a satisfying marriage (Washburn, 2008). Marital satisfaction means that the marriage provides the emotional and physical aspects necessary for both partners to fulfill healthy feelings of happiness and closeness (Kerkmann, 2000). In a satisfying marriage both partners ensure to implement feelings of trust and commitment through the respect of the other’s needs to the best of their ability (Shapiro, 20007). Marital dissatisfaction can be described as lack of trust, communication, and intimacy. If not properly addressed and amended, marital dissatisfaction can lead to separation and divorce of a marriage (Kerkmann, …show more content…
Financial problems put strain on a marriage and often lead to disagreements and arguments. Financial problems are one of the main reasons many couples seek out marriage therapy (Archuleta, Britt, Tonn, Grable, 2011). Whereas it has been shown in previous studies and research that having financial harmony within the marriage increases the overall satisfaction between partners (Britt, 2008). The prediction of the results strongly leans toward a correlation where financial harmony promotes marital satisfaction, whereas financial problems promotes marital
A correlational design would be the best style for gathering data to see if there is any relationship between finances and marital success. In doing …show more content…
When a couple is experiencing financial problems this means there’s a disagreement between how and where income should be used (Kerkmann, 2000). These disagreements could be anything from an expensive medical bill, debt a spouse accumulated before the marriage, moving to a new house, or a spouse losing their job (Britt, Grable, Goff, White, 2008).
Financial harmony can be described as the opposite of financial problems. Having financial harmony, both partners in a marriage recognize the importance of money, and take an active role in ensuring they make wise financial decisions. Financial harmony can bring about feelings of closeness and trust within a marriage, which promote a satisfying marriage (Washburn, 2008). Marital satisfaction means that the marriage provides the emotional and physical aspects necessary for both partners to fulfill healthy feelings of happiness and closeness (Kerkmann, 2000). In a satisfying marriage both partners ensure to implement feelings of trust and commitment through the respect of the other’s needs to the best of their ability (Shapiro, 20007). Marital dissatisfaction can be described as lack of trust, communication, and intimacy. If not properly addressed and amended, marital dissatisfaction can lead to separation and divorce of a marriage (Kerkmann, …show more content…
Financial problems put strain on a marriage and often lead to disagreements and arguments. Financial problems are one of the main reasons many couples seek out marriage therapy (Archuleta, Britt, Tonn, Grable, 2011). Whereas it has been shown in previous studies and research that having financial harmony within the marriage increases the overall satisfaction between partners (Britt, 2008). The prediction of the results strongly leans toward a correlation where financial harmony promotes marital satisfaction, whereas financial problems promotes marital