The examination of married individuals' marital satisfaction according to their conflict resolution styles

The aim of this study is to reveal how marital satisfaction differs according to married individuals' conflict resolution styles, gender, age, length of marriage, status of education and families monthly income; conflict resolution styles and the interaction between the conflict resolution styles and demographic features after controlling for the married individuals' marital problem solving skills. The data collection istruments, in this study, consist of Marriage Life Scale, Conflict Resolution Styles Scale, Marital Problem Solving Scale and the Personal Information Form prepared by the researcher. The study was conducted in the central provinces of Sakarya in Adapazarı, Serdivan, Arifiye, Sapanca, Hendek, Akyazı and Erenler. The participants of the study were selected via simpler and omsampling method among married individuals. Thereby, 523 married individuals (291 female, 232 male) participated into the study. For data analysis, SPSS V23.0 was employed. In the analysis of the married individuals' marriage satisfaction according to their conflict resolution style, age, length of marriage, status of education and families monthly income variables ANOVA; in examining the relationship between marital satisfaction and marital problem solving abilities. Pearson correlation; to test the difference of the means regarding marital satisfaction according to gender, independent t test; and after controlling for marital problem solving skills, to test marital satisfaction compared to conflict resolution ANCOVA were conducted. In order to examine marriage satisfaction according to the interaction between married individuals' conflict resolution styles and personal information variables One-Way ANOVA was used. According to the results of the study, it as found that there was a statistically significant difference between the conflict resolution styles of the married individuals and marriage satisfaction. When marriage satisfaction was examined compared to demographic variables; there was a statistically significant difference in age, gender, status of education and families' monthly income variables, whereas there was not a statistically significant difference compared to the length of the marriage. Also, a moderate, positive significant relationship was found between marriage problem solving skills and marriage satisfaction. Besides, after controlling for married individuals' problem solving skills, there was a significant difference in marriage satisfaction compared to conflict resolution styles. Finally, it was found that there was no interaction effect between the demographic variables and conflict resolution styles. According to those results, in the frame of the literature, future research and practical implications were presented.