Spouses' personalities and marital satisfaction in Chinese families.

IF 2.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Frontiers in Psychology Pub Date : 2025-02-05 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1480570

Li Jia, Gerrit Antonides, Zhuomin Liu

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Introduction: Considering the traditional Confucian values prevalent in Chinese society, we study the effects of the spouses' personalities and household sociodemographic circumstances on the marital satisfaction of marriage partners.

Methods: We evaluate the factors that contribute to marital satisfaction, using the 2018 wave of the Chinese Family Panel Survey, including 6,603 households. We use information on both spouses' Big-Five personality traits, and marital satisfaction. In addition, the effects of the household's sociodemographic factors on the spouses' marital satisfaction are estimated. We employ the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model to estimate the effects, using simultaneous equation modeling.

Results: We find significant actor effects of personality, i.e., agreeableness, openness, conscientiousness, and extroversion, but few partner effects on marital satisfaction. In addition to other socioeconomic effects, we find strong actor effects of subjective social status on marital satisfaction for both spouses. The wife's level of education had a negative effect on her marital satisfaction.

Discussion: The effects of the spouses' personalities and sociodemographic circumstances on their marital satisfaction fit the Confucian values fostered in China. The wife's double burden of having a job and taking care of household duties, negatively affecting her marital satisfaction, may be alleviated by proper government policies.

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中国家庭配偶个性与婚姻满意度

引言：考虑到中国社会普遍存在的传统儒家价值观，我们研究了配偶性格和家庭社会人口环境对婚姻伴侣婚姻满意度的影响。方法：我们利用2018年中国家庭面板调查，包括6603个家庭，评估影响婚姻满意度的因素。我们使用夫妻双方的五大人格特征和婚姻满意度的信息。此外，还估计了家庭社会人口因素对配偶婚姻满意度的影响。我们采用参与者-合作伙伴相互依赖模型，使用联立方程模型来估计效果。结果：人格因素对婚姻满意度的影响不显著，人格因素对婚姻满意度的影响不显著，人格因素对婚姻满意度的影响显著。除了其他社会经济效应外，我们还发现主观社会地位对夫妻双方的婚姻满意度有很强的行动者效应。妻子的受教育程度对其婚姻满意度有负向影响。讨论：夫妻性格和社会人口环境对婚姻满意度的影响符合中国儒家价值观。妻子既要工作又要料理家务的双重负担对其婚姻满意度有负面影响，政府的适当政策可以减轻这种负担。

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Frontiers in Psychology PSYCHOLOGY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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5.30

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13.20%

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7396

审稿时长

14 weeks

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