The Relationship Between Premarital Preparation and Marital Satisfaction: With Reference to the Mothers of Students of Nisir new Generation School in Addis Ababa
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2014-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The aim of this study is to examine the differences, between married women with and
without premarital preparation, with regard to the issues of marital satisfaction,
communication, conflict resolution, intimacy and commitment in their respective family
lives. For the purpose of this study 100 married women were selected of whom half had
premarital orientation and the other half had none. Lottery technique was used in selecting
the participants. For data collection questionnaires with 64 items were used. For data analysis
the researcher employed t-test to examine the two groups. Furthermore, one way ANOVA
was used to determine whether or not
marital satisfaction, communication, conflict
resolution, intimacy and commitment are in anyway affected by socio demographic
characteristics such as age, monthly income, level of education and number of children. The
study results indicated that (1) those with premarital preparations were generally effective in
creating and managing more stable and peaceful family lives than those without premarital
preparation, and (2) none of the other socio demographic characteristics had any different on
the five issues mention the analyzed. Based on the results some of the finding are forward
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