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Sexual and marital communication : and perceived marital adjustment

University of British Columbia

This study sought to examine the relationship between marital quality and interspousal sexual communication. The study also sought to examine the relationships between sexual communication and marital communication and perceived quality of relationships. A purposive sample of forty four couples was drawn from throughout the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada. Twenty two couples who were receiving marital counselling for distressed relationships were drawn and constituted Group One. Twenty two couples who were not seeking therapy and who judged their marriages to be satisfactory were drawn and constituted Group Two. Both husbands and wives within each sample were mailed the following questionnaires: The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, The Marital Communication Inventory and The Sexual Communication Inventory. Four hypotheses were tested. Hypotheses One, Two and Three were tested using independent groups t-test for the difference between means to determine if there was a statistically significant difference between the means of the two groups on different variables of marital adjustment. Hypothesis Four was tested using the Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient to establish the relationships between variables. The null hypothesis was rejected in each case. The results of the study reconfirm that there is a strong positive correlation between marital adjustment and interspousal communication. The study further demonstrates a strong correlation between open sexual communication and marital adjustment and between inhibited sexual communication and marital distress. The results of Hypothesis Four demonstrate that the correlations between sexual communication and marital adjustment and between sexual communication and marital communication are group specific and statistically significant between groups.

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2010-04-01

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http://hdl.handle.net/2429/23297

Counselling Psychology

University of British Columbia

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