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Fengzhan Li1, Chen Chen1, Jinrui Wang2
1Department of Military Medical Psychology, Air Force Medical University, Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), Xi'an, China.
Objective:
To investigate the changing trend of Chinese couples' marital satisfaction and its relationship with social changes.
Methods:
A cross-temporal meta-analysis was performed on 118 original studies (n = 31,909) reporting marital satisfaction of Chinese couples from 1994 to 2020, primarily using correlation analysis and regression analysis.
Results:
(1) Overall, the marital satisfaction of Chinese couples showed a downward trend over time. (2) Men's marital satisfaction displayed almost no change, while women's marital satisfaction had a more obvious downward trend. (3) Changes in macrosocial factors (per capita consumption expenditure, housing prices, old-age dependency ratio, and divorce rate) could significantly predict the downward trend of marital satisfaction, especially for women.
Conclusion:
In the past 27 years, the overall marital satisfaction level of Chinese couples has shown a downward trend, and there are gendered differences, which may be related to changes in the socioeconomic and cultural environments.
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