An Investigation on the Influence of Career, Education and Pious Organisational Membership on Marital Satisfaction among Roman Catholic Couples

Abstract

This study examined Influence of career, education and pious organisational membership on marital satisfaction on Roman Catholic couples. Two hundred and twenty-seven participants were employed in the study. They all consist of couples who were random sampling procedure. Their age ranged from 18- 60, with a mean age of 3.39and standard deviation of .889.The instrument adopted for the study consists of 25 items which measures marital satisfaction, developed by Hudson (1982). The study adopted 10x7x8 factorial design for the study while 3 way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) was used to test the hypotheses. The first hypothesis which stated that Career will significantly influence Marital satisfaction among Roman Catholic couples was rejected at (F=1.059, sig.400). The second hypothesis which stated that Education will significantly influence marital satisfaction among Roman Catholic couples was also rejected at (F=1.395, sig.233).The third hypothesis which stated that Pious organisational membership will significantly influence marital satisfaction among Roman Catholic couples was accepted at (f=1.939, sig.072). Based on the findings of this study, the researcher, therefore, recommended that marriage class instructors as well as all whose responsibility it is to instruct those going into marriage should advice couples to join any of these pious organisations. Also couples who are currently experiencing challenges in marital relationship should be counselled to join any of the extant pious organisations.