Marital commitment and psychological well-being

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380900
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Educational psychology
• Research Institution: Bunkyo Gakuin University
• Principal Investigator: Ito Yuko 文京学院大学, 人間学部, 教授 (50296357)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 夫婦関係 / 結婚コミットメント / 中高年期 / ジェネラティヴィティ / 心理的健康

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With increasing the rate of divorce, the purpose of this study was to find out how keeping the marital life influence the individual psychological well-being. For couples in middle-aged period and in elderly period, marital commitment (marital C.) was composed of personal C., resignation and instrumental C. and normative C. As a result of cluster analysis, the specific normative type was found out in Japanese elderly period with both high rates of normative C. and personal C. In child-rearing period, in addition to above three factors, child-existence C. was found out. Normative C. was weakened in child-rearing period when four factors were compared with in middle-aged period and in elderly period. Moreover, not all the thing child-existence restrained the divorce was proved in child-rearing period.

Free Research Field

発達心理学