Sources of Marital Conflict, the Relationship Between Conflict Resolution Mechanisms and Marital Satisfaction Among Married People in Jemo-1, Addis Ababa

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2014-06

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Addis Ababa University

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This research is to explore the major causes of marital conflict, conflict resolution mechanisms, and the relationship between marital satisfaction and conflict resolution mechanism among married people in Jemo-1. This research is mixed type. Using lottery method 160 participants were selected and 6 participants also participated in interview. The findings indicate major causes of marital conflict are money/financial issues, impatience/lack of tolerance, aggressiveness, lack of demonstration of affection, communication issues, in- laws interference, and lack of responsibilities in house hold affairs. Mechanisms use to resolve conflicts are collaborative style, accommodative, and compromise conflict resolution style. Most of the respondents are satisfied in their marriage. The result of spearman correlation indicates that collaborative style of conflict resolution has strong positive relation with marital satisfaction of married partners. And avoiding conflict has an inverse relationship with marital satisfaction. And regression result shows collaborative conflict resolution mechanisms predict marital satisfaction, as well as avoidance conflict resolution mechanism predicts marital satisfaction in a reverse way

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Addis Ababa

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