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Published on: September 19, 2019
[Sibling position in the family and marital satisfaction]
1Katedra psychologie a patopsychologie PdF UP Olomouc.
Abstract:
The authors investigated the influence of siblings' constellations in childhood on marital satisfaction. The investigation was performed on 582 persons, 435 of them had undergone treatment in the psychotherapeutic department for neuroses. The rest of them, the control group, had never been treated for neurosis. The results of the work suggest that the position of both partners in Childhood influence the total marital satisfaction. The combination of the oldest brother and the youngest sister seems to be the most favourable, especially in the neurotic group. In the control group, the lowest average of the satisfaction was found when the husband had only brothers and the wife only sisters. However, we did not find the evidence for this in the neurotic group.
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