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The Effect of Mid-life Christian Couples Communication Styles on the Marital Conflicts - Focused on the Mediating Effects of the Ego-resilience and the Sexual Intimacy -

  • Journal of Counseling and Gospel
  • Abbr : Jocag
  • 2014, 22(2), pp.301-339
  • DOI : 10.17841/jocag.2014.22.2.301
  • Publisher : Korean Evangelical Counseling Society
  • Research Area : Humanities > Christian Theology > Pastoral Counseling
  • Received : October 15, 2014
  • Accepted : November 12, 2014

Jung, Soon Rye 1

1한국성서대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this research is to analyze and verify the effect of mid-life Christian couples’ counter-functional communication styles on the marital conflicts, focusing on the mediating effects of the ego-resilience and the sexual intimacy. First, the research analyzes the relevance of communication’s subordinate variation factor to marital conflicts, ego-resilience, and sexual intimacy of mid-life Christian couples and its effect. Second, it analyzes if ego-resilience and sexual intimacy have mediating effects upon communication styles and marital conflicts. The subjects of this research are mid-life Christian couples. The number of data collected was 690 in total and structural equation modeling(SEM) was used to analyze the data. Test result in this research is summarized as follows. First, it was verified that direct influence of communication style, ego-resilience, and sexual intimacy on marital conflicts of mid-life Christian couples exists. Second, mediating effects of ego-resilience and sexual intimacy upon the relationship of mid-life Christian couples’ communication styles and marital conflicts are verified. But appeasement type, one of communication styles, has little influence on marital conflicts and ego-resilience. Also, appeasement type does not have meaningful influence on mediating effect. The result of this research will help solving the marital conflicts through investigating the factors which influence on mid-life Christian couples’ marital conflicts.

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