RELATION BETWEEN POTENTIAL FOR DIVORCE AND WOMEN’S PSYCHOPHYSICAL HEALTH
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The literature states that marital stability, in addition to the quality of marriage, is one of the basic characteristics of marriage and marital relationship. For this reason, many researchers have focused on examining the factors and consequences of marital (in)stability, with the greatest attention being paid to divorce, as one of the possible outcomes of marital instability. Much less research has investigated the potential effects of marital instability as a comprehensive process. Hence, the aim of this study was to examine relation between potential for divorce and women’s psychophysical health. Sample consisted of 1338 women, with different education, work and economic status. Average age of the sample was 40.07 years (SD = 9.10), ranging from 21 to 76 years. Most women (89.9%) live with their partners in formal marriage, with marriage duration ranging from 1 to 50 years (AS = 15.52, SD = 8.85). Also, most women (87.8%) have children with their spouses. The Psychophysical Health Scale (SPFZ-1: Majstorović, 2011) was applied in order to assess both general psychophysical health and its various aspects: physical health, fear and anxiety, depression, fatigue, and social behavior, while potential for divorce was measured by the short form of Marital Instability Index (Booth, Johnson & Edwards, 1983). The results of one-way multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) show that the main effect of marital stability/instability, after statistically eliminating the influence of parenting, are significant, with women who assessed their marriage as unstable achieving higher scores on all dimensions of psychophysical health compared with women who assessed their marriage as stable. The obtained results are in line with the findings of previously conducted studies, which indicate the existence of numerous negative psychological, social and health consequences of high marital instability and divorce, and suggest that thinking about the termination of a marriage, and not necessarily just its termination and divorce, can be significantly associated with symptoms of a different nature. Therefore, the findings of this study stress out the need to consider marital instability as a comprehensive process, as opposed to focusing only on divorce, as one of the outcomes of marital instability, which may have practical implications in the context of improving the counseling programs and support programs for married couples.
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Шакотић-Курбалија, Ј. М. RELATION BETWEEN POTENTIAL FOR DIVORCE AND WOMEN’S PSYCHOPHYSICAL HEALTH. ANNUAL REVIEW OF THE FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, 44(1), 147–168. https://doi.org/10.19090/gff.2019.1.147-168
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Šakotić-Kurbalija, J., i Kukulj, N. (2016). Povezanost kvaliteta bračnog odnosa i potencijala za razvod sa podelom odgovornosti među partnerima. Šesti kongres psihoterapeuta Srbije: Društvo i psihoterapija. Beograd: 20.10 –23. 10. 2016. Savez društava psihoterapeuta Srbije, Zbornik rezimea na CD-u, 20.
Šakotić-Kurbalija, J., i Kurbalija D. (2015). Kvalitet bračnih odnosa u Srbiji iz ženskog i muškog ugla. Peti kongres psihoterapeuta Srbije: Ljubav i psihoterapija. Beograd: 22.10 –25. 10. 2015. Savez društava psihoterapeuta Srbije, Zbornik rezimea na CD-u, 134.
Šakotić-Kurbalija, J., i Trifunović, B. (2017). Polne razlike u strategijama suočavanja sa stresom kod bračnih partnera u Srbiji. Godišnjak Filozofskog fakulteta, Novi Sad, 42(2), 361 - 378. doi: 10.19090/gff.2017.2.361-378
Šakotić-Kurbalija, J., Trifunović, B., i Kurbalija D. (2017). Efekti ekonomskog stresa na kvalitet i stabilnost bračnog odnosa. Primenjena psihologija, 10(2), 263-280. doi: 10.19090/pp.2017.2.263-280
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