Abstract:
This study investigated gender role orientation, religiosity, and self-determination as predictors of marital satisfaction among married couples. Participants were one hundred and eighty seven (187) married couples, drawn from three religions namely Christianity, Islam and African Traditional Religion. Theirages ranged from 21 years to 50 years, and were categorized.Cross Sectional design was adopted.Four instruments were used for data collection; Bem Sex role Inventory Short Form, Basic Need Satisfaction in General Scale,Index of Marital Satisfaction and Religious Commitment Inventory-10.Three hypotheses were tested. Hierarchical multipleregression was the main statistic used for dataanalysis. Results of the regression analysisindicated that gender role orientation (p< .001), religiosity (p<.05), intrapersonal (p<.05), self-determination (p<.001),autonomy (p<.01), as well as competence (p<.001) all were shown to be significant predictors of marital satisfaction among couples. Interpersonal dimension of religiosity and relatedness dimension of self-determination were not significant predictors of marital satisfaction among couples. One nascent implication of thisfinding is that couples seeing themselves as one other than strictly emphasizing on gender role will increase rate of marital satisfaction in our society. Other implicationswere also stated, limitations and suggestions for furtherstudies were made.
