Mediating effect of coping style between marital quality and personality in spouses

VernacularTitle:应对方式在夫妻人格与婚姻质量关系间的中介效应
Author: Lizhai JIA ; Yuzhong WANG ; Jiangtao ZHAO ; Zhongjie WANG
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Marital quality; Personality; Coping style
From: Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science 2013;(1):43-45
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To examine the relationship of marital quality,personalities,coping style in spouses.Methods Total 923 spouses were assessed with the marriage perception scale (MPS),Eysenck personality questionaire(EPQ) and simplified coping style questionnaire(SCSQ).Results The results revealed that psychoticism and neuroticism were both negatively correlated with marital quality(r=-0.24,-0.31,P＜ 0.01),but intraversion/extraversion and lie were both positively correlated with marital quality (r =0.24,0.14,P ＜ 0.01).And coping style was positively correlated with marital quality(r=0.33,P＜ 0.01).Significant partial mediation of coping style on the association between personality and marital quality were revealed,and the mediating effect was accounted for 8.8％ of the total effect.Conclusion Coping style is the mediator between personalities and marital quality.