Article
Cinta dan Kepuasan Perkawinan pada Istri
Jurnal Sublimapsi, Vol. 6 No. 3 (2025), hlm. 231–240
Abstrak
Marital satisfaction is a picture of feelings of happiness and success in a marital. In general, someone who has the desire to get married expects his married life to be successful and happy. But in reality, achieving success and happiness in marriage is not an easy thing. Generally, wives who are in the family stage with preschool-aged children experience greater dissatisfaction because of their greater responsibilities in the household. When marital satisfaction is not achieved, one of the effects that occurs is divorce. Love is one of the elements that play a role in marital satisfaction. Therefore, this study aims to understand how love relates to marital satisfaction in wives who are in the family phase with preschool children. Respondents of this study amounted to 53 wives with a maximum marital age of 5 years. The sampling technique used was total sampling technique. The tools used in collecting data are Sternberg's Tringular Love Scale (STLS) which has been modified to measure the variable of love and the ENRICH Marital Satisfaction (EMS) Scale which has been modified to measure the variable of marital satisfaction From the results of the descriptive analysis, it was found that the level of love and marital satisfaction of respondents was generally classified as moderate. The data analysis method used in this study is the Pearson Product Moment correlation test, with the help of SPSS 21. 0 for Windows. This study shows an r value of 0.775 and a p value = 0.01 (p <0.05). This shows that there is a significant positive relationship between love and marital satisfaction in wives who are in the family stage with preschool children.