Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association (대한가정학회지)

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Influence of Son-in-Law's Support Consciousness towards Mother-in-Law and Marital Quality Based on the Relation-Satisfaction between the Mother-in-Law and Son-in-Law

장모 부양의식과 부부관계의 질이 장모-사위 간 관계 만족도에 미치는 영향

  • Jeon, Se-Song (Department of Child & Family Studies, Kyungpook National University) ;
  • Kim, Sue-Kyung (Department of Child & Family Studies, Kyungpook National University)
  • 전세승 (경북대학교 아동가족학과) ;
  • 김수경 (경북대학교 아동가족학과)
  • Received : 2011.11.25
  • Accepted : 2012.02.05
  • Published : 2012.04.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of the support consciousness of the son-in-law's towards their mother-in-laws and also to study their marital quality(marital satisfaction, spousal influence, spousal loyalty) based on the relation-satisfaction between mother-in-law and son-in-law. We selected 319 married men who had their mother-in-laws as participants of this study and their age groups ranged from the twenties to the sixties. The major findings of this study were as follows: (1) There were significant differences in marital quality and also in the son-in-law's relation-satisfaction with their mother-in-laws with respect to the two-income family, the number of children and the educational level. (2) Marital satisfaction, spousal influence and support consciousness towards mother-in-law affected positively the relation-satisfaction between the mother-in-laws and the son-in-laws.

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