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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