Quality of Marital Relationship and Religiousness of Spouses in Connection with Marital Support Groups Membership

The research intended to establish the existence of statistically important differences in correlations between the nature of satisfaction in marriage, quality of marital relationship in religiousness among the members and non-members of marital support groups. Questionnaire was distributed to 545 members of marital groups and 456 non-members, of later 30 %of correspondents are men and 70 % women. The satisfaction in marriage was measured on Kansas marital satisfaction scale, to measure the quality of marital relationship Dyadic adjustment scale questionnaire was used. Religiousness was measured with The dimensions of religiosity questionnaire. The results of the research have indicated the statistically important differences between the satisfaction in marriage, quality of marital relationship between partners and religiousness by members and non-members of marital support groups. With the use of Mann-Whitney test, it was established that the members of marital support groups are more satisfied, more religious and have on average a better quality of marriage that non-members of marital support groups do. The correlation between the satisfaction in marriage, quality of marital relationship and religiousness is higher within the group of members, therefore more positive and statistically more important in comparison with the non-members of marital support groups.