ABSTRACT

No previous research has examined the effect of gender role attitudes and communication on marital satisfaction among Korean couples. Using the 2015 Fact-Finding Survey in Families, I investigated the relationships among gender role attitude, communication quality, and marital satisfaction via latent mean analysis (LMA) and multigroup analysis using structural equation modelling (SEM). Significant differences were found in gender role attitude, communication quality, and marital satisfaction between males and females. Females had higher values for more egalitarian gender attitude; males had higher values for communication quality and marital satisfaction. Communication quality mediated the relationship between gender attitude and marital satisfaction, but differences between males and females existed in the paths of the variables. Gender role attitude had a direct and indirect effect on marital satisfaction for the female group, while communication quality played a full mediating role of the relationship between gender role attitude and marital satisfaction for the male group. In addition, communication quality had a stronger influence on marital satisfaction for the female group than the male group. These results would provide important implications for understanding the different mechanisms that egalitarian men were more satisfied in their communication and marriage, but egalitarian women were not in the Korean context.

摘要

以前没有研究检查过性别角色态度和沟通对韩国夫妇婚姻满意度的影响。使用 2015 年家庭实况调查，我通过潜在均值分析 (LMA) 和使用结构方程模型 (SEM) 的多组分析调查了性别角色态度、沟通质量和婚姻满意度之间的关系。男女在性别角色态度、沟通质量和婚姻满意度方面存在显着差异。女性对更平等的性别态度有更高的评价；男性对沟通质量和婚姻满意度的评价更高。沟通质量在性别态度与婚姻满意度之间起中介作用，但在变量路径上存在男女差异。性别角色态度对女性群体的婚姻满意度有直接和间接的影响，而沟通质量在性别角色态度与男性群体婚姻满意度的关系中起充分中介作用。此外，沟通质量对女性群体的婚姻满意度的影响要强于男性群体。这些结果将为理解平等主义男性在沟通和婚姻中更满意的不同机制提供重要意义，但平等主义女性不在韩国语境中。沟通质量对女性群体婚姻满意度的影响大于男性群体。这些结果将为理解平等主义男性在沟通和婚姻中更满意的不同机制提供重要意义，但平等主义女性不在韩国语境中。沟通质量对女性群体婚姻满意度的影响大于男性群体。这些结果将为理解平等主义男性在沟通和婚姻中更满意的不同机制提供重要意义，但平等主义女性不在韩国语境中。