The primary purpose of this study was to examine a married person's distal religious (private religious practices, organizational religiousness, and religious intensity) and proximal spiritual variable (daily spiritual experiences, positive religious/spiritual coping, and forgiveness) associations to self-reported marital happiness. A secondary purpose was to examine these variable associations by gender. Three hundred forty-five married persons participated in the study. The findings showed that a married person's race and only organizational religiousness were significantly associated with self-reported marital happiness before considering proximal spiritual variables. After considering the latter, daily spiritual experiences, forgiveness, religious intensity, and race were significantly associated with marital happiness. Socio-cultural, distal and proximal variable associations to marital happiness differed in significance by gender. Symbolic interaction theory offered a conceptual foundation for interpretation. Implications for research and practice were discussed. / A Dissertation Submitted to the Department of Family and Child Sciences in Partial
Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2009. / April 27, 2009. / Marital Happiness, Spirituality, Religiousness / Includes bibliographical references. / Robert E. Lee, Professor Directing Dissertation; Gary Peterson, Outside Committee Member; Kay Pasley, Committee Member; Ann Mullis, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_175848 |
| Contributors | Bell, David E. (David Eugene) (authoraut), Lee, Robert E. (professor directing dissertation), Peterson, Gary (outside committee member), Pasley, Kay (committee member), Mullis, Ann (committee member), Department of Family and Child Sciences (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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