Comparing Marital Satisfaction: Insights from South Asian and Middle Eastern Perspectives

Abstract

In the human relationship, marriage becomes the source for healthy and satisfactory life. Marriage satisfaction is a state of happiness and comfort which is being enjoyed and shared by both partners in their marital relationship. For researchers, it seems a complicated and difficult task to understand and predict the status of marriage satisfaction as there is no specific predictor which could assess and calculate the level of satisfaction. The aim of this study is to asses those common factors i.e age, education, gender, marriage duration, number of children and religion which effect the marital satisfaction universally. The study used data from a published data set (Sorokowski, et al. 2017), comprising 7178 married individuals across 33 countries and territories. This current research focuses on South Asian countries (India & Pakistan) and Middle Eastern countries (Iran & Saudi Arabia), with a targeted population of 1234 responses.  Religiosity appear as a significant factor in marital satisfaction in both regions specifically in the selected countries. After calculating Spearman’s correlation among various variables, positive and negative correlations is identified in relation to marital satisfaction. The Mann-Whitney U test is employed to compare levels of marital satisfaction between South Asian and Middle Eastern countries.