부부간의 갈등관리에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to understand the conflicts between the husbands and wives, review their causes, and survey how they handle the conflicts and thereby, provide some basic data useful for development of effective conflict management for a happy family life and better quality of life. Questions of this study are as follow, First, are there differences of conflicts between husbands and wives depending on their demographic variables? Second, are there differences of conflict management depending on factors of conflict (relative, communication, financial, sexual, personality, role of sex)? Third, are there differences of conflict management depending on demographic variables (family income, family composition, motive for marriage, length of marriage)? In order to find the answers to above questions, the husbands and wives with a child or children living in Buchon-city were sampled for questionnaire survey. 223 people (65 husbands and 158 wives) responded to the survey. The reliability of the questionnaire was analyzed with Cronbach's α. The collected data were processed for frequency, percentage, means, T-test and one-way ANOVA for significance levels and cross analysis for differences among conflict management variables. The results of this study can be summarized as follow; 1. As a result of analyzing the differences of conflict depending on demographic variables, it was found that the level of conflict differed significantly depending on wives' academic backgrounds and jobs, and that the conflict due to motive for marriage or religion differed significantly depending on sexual factor. 2. In terms of conflict management, most of the husbands and wives relied on dialogue, evasion, obedience and ignorance. There was found no significant difference of conflict management between the husbands and wives. 3. As a result of analyzing the conflict management depending on demographic variables (family income, length of marriage, family composition, motive for marriage), it was found that the conflict due to financial problem differed significantly depending on family income level and motive for marriage, and that the conflict due to relative differed significantly depending on family income level, length of marriage and family composition. On the other hand, the conflict due to communication problem wives with a child or children living in Buchon-city were sampled for questionnaire survey. 223 people (65 husbands and 158 wives) responded to the survey. The reliability of the questionnaire was analyzed with Cronbach's α. The collected data were processed for frequency, percentage, means, T-test and one-way ANOVA for significance levels and cross analysis for differences among conflict management variables. The results of this study can be summarized as follow; 1. As a result of analyzing the differences of conflict depending on demographic variables, it was found that the level of conflict differed significantly depending on wives'academic backgrounds and jobs, and that the conflict due to motive for marriage or religion differed significantly depending on sexual factor. 2. In terms of conflict management, most of the husbands and wives relied on dialogue, evasion, obedience and ignorance. There was found no significant difference of conflict management between the husbands and wives. 3. As a result of analyzing the conflict management depending on demographic variables (family income, length of marriage, family composition, motive for marriage), it was found that the conflict due to financial problem differed significantly depending on family income level and motive for marriage, and that the conflict due to relative differed significantly depending on family income level, length of marriage and family composition. On the other hand, the conflict due to communication problem differed significantly depending on family income level, as well as the conflict due to sexual problem differed significantly depending on family income level.