The importance of faith in couple communication
Journal Title: Dialogo - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 1
Abstract
Religion has always been an important element in the lives of most people. The couple represents the basic unit of life perpetuation. It is a bond formed between two people who develops and evolves together and which have as a common goal building a family. The couple’s life quality is essential in maintaining a lasting, healthy relationship that provides harmony, satisfaction and stability. The way a partner relates to each other in the couple relationship has a determining role for the future actions of the other, and also for the relationship stability and functioning. The manner in which partners in a couple behave depends on their religious culture. Religion must bring a positive influence on the relationship: namely, the cultivation of the idea of not harming the person and the person next to us. Prayer is a method of stress relief in critical moments. The effort regarding maintain positive and functional relationship between partners should be oriented towards the following directions: interpersonal communication based on affectivity, equality in decision-making, fairness in exchanges, motivation that supports the relationship, motivational compatibility, interpersonal respect, raising the marital level satisfaction. Hypotheses: It is assumed that married people communicate more assertively than the unmarried. It is assumed that people with assertive communication style are consensual in the couple. Lot of participants: The sample includes 60 married and unmarried people from Constanta between the ages of 18 and 60. From the point of view of the marital state, there are 20 married couples and 10 unmarried couples. Research Instruments: Questionnaire identifying the style of communication and DAS questionnaire Results: As a result of the correlations and comparisons made, we have found that married people express more affectionately than unmarried ones, and that there is a higher level of assertive communication in the case of married couples. It has also been found that the assertive communication style positively correlates with couple consensus and satisfaction.
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Mariana Floricica Călin
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- DOI 10.18638/dialogo.2018.5.1.8
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