TY - JOUR
T1 - Marital Happiness in Time of Change
T2 - the Case of United Arab Emirates (UAE)
AU - Alibeli, Madalla A.
AU - Na'amneh, Mahmoud M.
AU - Nair, Satish
N1 - Funding Information:
Data were derived from UAE Marital Happiness Survey (2014) conducted with financial support from College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE. A sample of 1,484 married respondents were contacted and interviewed by trained research assistants. The UAE Marital Happiness survey was constructed, with modification to suite UAE society, from ENRICH Marital Satisfaction Survey by Flowers and Olson (1993). Yet, the UAE marital happiness survey excluded two major components from the original surveys: sexuality and spirituality due to cultural sensitivity concerns. In addition to collecting data about marital happiness, the UAE marital happiness survey collected relevant information about respondents’ socioeconomic and demographic characteristics.
Funding Information:
1 This work was supported by United Arab Emirates University (UAEU) under Grant number 31H097.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands.
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - This study examined the extent to which marital happiness in the UAE can be correctly predicted from the knowledge of individuals' subjective evaluations of their marital relational factors, including communication patterns, conflict resolution, marital role relationships, managing finance, children's responsibilities sharing, and flexibility and closeness while holding constant the effects of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of those individuals. To that end, self-administered questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted by trained research assistants. The study revealed important insights corresponding to marital happiness in the UAE, and predicted a number of factors that appeared to significantly predict this very important issue in society, in particular, communication patterns and conflict resolution style.
AB - This study examined the extent to which marital happiness in the UAE can be correctly predicted from the knowledge of individuals' subjective evaluations of their marital relational factors, including communication patterns, conflict resolution, marital role relationships, managing finance, children's responsibilities sharing, and flexibility and closeness while holding constant the effects of the socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of those individuals. To that end, self-administered questionnaires and in-depth interviews were conducted by trained research assistants. The study revealed important insights corresponding to marital happiness in the UAE, and predicted a number of factors that appeared to significantly predict this very important issue in society, in particular, communication patterns and conflict resolution style.
KW - UAE
KW - communication
KW - gender-roles
KW - happiness
KW - marriage
KW - socio-cultural change
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U2 - 10.1163/15691497-12341517
DO - 10.1163/15691497-12341517
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066115902
SN - 1569-1500
VL - 18
SP - 229
EP - 248
JO - Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
JF - Perspectives on Global Development and Technology
IS - 3
ER -