Volume 14, Number 2, December 2004

What Really Matters: The Demographic Versus Relationship in Marital Satisfaction

This study aims to examine the relative importance of demographics and relationship predictors of marital satisfaction among Taiwanese couples. Quantitative data was collected from a probability sample of 226 married couples from eight major cities in Taiwan. The hierarchical multiple regression analyses confirmed the hypothesis that subjective marital relationship evaluations are more powerful predictors of marital satisfaction than are the demographic characteristics among Taiwanese couples.

April Chiung-tao Shen is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University.