The Relationships among Marital Conflict Style, Emotional Security, and Marriage Attitude of College Students in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Wu, Pei-I, 吳佩宜
• Other Authors: Wu, Li-Chuan
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/97484121054444404151

碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 教育心理與輔導學系 === 103 === The first purpose of this study was to investigate the relationships among college students’ perceptions of marital conflict style, emotional security, and marriage attitude. The second purpose was to test the positive and negative relationships among constructive marital conflict, destructive marital conflict, emotional security, and marriage attitude. The measurement tools used in this study were “The Childrens’ Perceived Interparental Conflict Style Scale”, “Security in the Interparental Subsystem Scale”, and “Marital Attitude Scale”. The questionnaires were administered to 613 college students in Taiwan. The collected data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent t tests, canonical correlation analysis, and informative hypotheses tests proposed by Van de Schoot, Hoijtink and Deković (2010). The results of the study are as follows: 1. College students tended to perceive marital conflict style as constructive conflict, their emotional security is medium, and their marriage attitude tended to be positive. 2. No gender differences were found for college students’ perceptions of marital conflict style and their emotional security; however, male college students tended to have a more positive marriage attitude than female college students. 3. College students from two-parent families were more likely to perceive constructive marital conflict than college students not from two-parent families. College students not from two-parent families were more likely to perceive destructive marital conflict than college students from two-parent families. In terms of emotional security, college students not from two-parent families tended to have lower emotional security. Additionally, college students from two-parent families tended to hold more positive marriage attitude than college students not from two-parent families. 4. Results of the canonical correlation analysis indicated that higher perception of constructive marital conflict and lower perception of destructive marital conflict were associated with higher levels of emotional security. Additionally, higher perception of destructive marital conflict and lower perception of constructive marital conflict were associated with lower levels of emotional security. 5. Results of testing the positive and negative relationships among constructive marital conflict, destructive marital conflict, emotional security, and marriage attitude empirically supported the main research hypotheses. Based on the results of this study, implications of the study for counseling and parent education are discussed and suggestions for future research are proposed.