TY  - JOUR
TT  - THE EFFECT OF NUMBER OF CHILDREN ON MARITAL SATISFACTION AND SPOUSE SUPPORT
AU  - Karayağız, Şaban
AU  - Taş, Ertuğrul
AU  - Hamurcu, Arzu
PY  - 2019
DA  - June
JF  - Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi Fen-Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
JO  - CUJOSS
PB  - Sivas Cumhuriyet University
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1305-5143
SP  - 145
EP  - 154
VL  - 43
IS  - 1
LA  - en
KW  - Marital satisfaction; spousal support; the number of children.
N2  - The purpose of this study was to investigate whetherspousal support, highly correlated with marital satisfaction, is affected bythe number of kids and other factors as they are the most important issues in amarriage. Findings are expected to benefit spouses for family planningregarding the number of children. In today’s society, marital satisfaction andspousal support are accepted the most important issues. Marital satisfaction isbasically defined as the satisfaction that the couples get from marriage on apersonal and environmental basis. Spousal support is accepted as the supportthey provide to each other. Recent studies showed that a positive correlationexists between spousal support and marital satisfaction. However, there are afew types of research on issues regarding their foundations. The study groupconsisted of 201 married in Kayseri province in Turkey. The MarriageSatisfaction Scale (MSS), the Spouse Support Scale (SSS) and a Demographic Formwere utilized for data collection. Data analysis was conducted with statisticalanalysis including average scores, standard deviations, and Pearsoncorrelation. The findings showed that a negative medium correlation existed forthe participants with no kids and with four children compared to maritalsatisfaction and marital support levels. In addition, the higher the number ofchildren, the higher the negative correlation between marital satisfaction andsupport was found. In conclusion, the number of children and other factorssignificantly affects spousal support and marital satisfaction.
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