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http://dx.doi.org/10.6115/fer.2020.024

Trajectories of the Marital Satisfaction among Middle and Old Aged Couples Using Parallel Latent Growth Model: Actor and Partner Effects  

Cho, Kyuyoung (College of General Education, Dong-A University)
Lee, Seolah (Dept. of Child and Family Studies, Yonsei University)
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Human Ecology Research / v.58, no.3, 2020 , pp. 333-341 More about this Journal
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This study examined the trajectories of the marital satisfaction among middle and old aged couples for 8 years. This study focused on middle and old aged couples who were relatively uninterested in family research. Using the 1-5 Waves of Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing (KLoSA) 2006-2014, the study included 635 middle and old aged couples whose husbands were 65-74 years old at baseline. First, a latent growth model indicated that a husband's and wife's marital satisfaction trajectories decreased over time. Second, a parallel latent growth model indicated that a husband's marital satisfaction trajectories decreased more quickly, when the initial level of their own marital satisfaction was higher (husband's actor-effect); in addition, a wife's marital satisfaction trajectories also decreased more quickly, when the initial level of their own marital satisfaction was higher (wife's actor-effect). Wife's marital satisfaction trajectories decreased more slowly, when the initial level of their husband's marital satisfaction was higher (husband's partner-effect); however, the husband's slope was not associated with the initial level of their wife's. The methodological value of this work shows the application of a parallel latent growth model that includes the actor and partner effect of APIM. The findings extend our understanding of longitudinal marital dynamics between couples and promote a study on the trajectories of marital satisfaction at stages of the family life cycle.
Keywords
middle and old aged couples; marital satisfaction; parallel latent growth model; Korea longitudinal study of ageing;
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