Factorial structure and correlates of marital adjustment in a Japanese population

A total of 146 married inhabitants (67 men and 79 women) in a provincial city of Japan were interviewed to examine marital adjustment and its psychosocial determinants. Fifteen items of the Short Marital Adjustment Test (Locke & Wallace, 1959) (LWT), a self-rating questionnaire, were transformed into a semi-structured interview together with two new items. Factor analysis yielded five factors which were interpreted as dyadic consensus, satisfaction, flexibility, home-loving, and interest-sharing. Better marital adjustment in women was correlated with higher standard of living, lower neuroticism, and a more caring father, whereas in men it was correlated with lower psychoticism and a more caring mother. Longitudinal studies are needed to throw more light on the determinants of marital adjustment.

Big Five personality traits · Developmental psychology · Extraversion and introversion · Longitudinal study · Neuroticism · Personality · Population · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Psychoticism · Sociology · Test (biology) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Clinical Psychology · Demography · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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