Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Turkish Psychological Counseling and Guidance Journal, cilt.14, sa.74, ss.401-414, 2024 (Scopus)
In this research, it was aimed to investigate life satisfaction and sexual self-consciousness as the predictors of marital disaffection and to reveal whether marital disaffection differs significantly according to determined demographical variables. The form including the scale items was transferred to the digital environment (Google Forms) and sent online to the participants, and the research data were collected between May 2021 and July 2021. This study was conducted with the data collected from 435 married individuals (239 women and 196 men) living in various cities of Türkiye, in a correlational survey model, using multiple regression analysis. The findings obtained in the research suggested that life satisfaction and sexual self-consciousness significantly predicted marital disaffection and the present two predictive variables of the research together explain 28% of the total variance in the scores of marital disaffection. It was also concluded that life satisfaction was negatively and moderately related to marital disaffection, and that there was a low related positive relationship between sexual self-consciousness and marital disaffection and it was found that marital disaffection it differed significantly according to gender, type of marriage, duration of marriage and the number of children.