The Effect of Communication on Intercultural Married Couples' Marital Satisfaction

コンイン マンゾクド ノ キテイ ヨウイン トシテノ コミュニケーション コクサイ ケッコン オ タイショウ トシタ カップル タンイ ノ ブンセキ カラ

Shi, Liping

オオサカ ダイガク ニンゲン カガクブ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

英語

コミュニケーション

婚姻満足度

摩擦

情緒的共有

intercultural marriage

communication

marital satisfaction

conflict

emotional effect

The aim of this paper is to investigate the communication structure between partners in intercultural marriages, and hence to clarify the effect of communication on the couples' satisfaction. Although communication is one of the most important elements in intercultural marriages, the research on this subject is far from comprehensive. Based on this consideration, a survey was conducted by the author in 1997 and some of the results are presented in this paper. At first, We found that communication between Japanese husband and foreigner wife is activer, more straightforward, and higher in the emotional effect than the communication between Japanese wife and foreigner husband.　Secondly, we found that husbands' satisfaction is affected by the emotional effect of husbands' expression and the husbands' communicative straightforwardness, while the wives' satisfaction is affected by the emotional effect of wives' expression, the quantity of wives' expression and the husbands' consciousness of verbal communication.

英語