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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

marital beliefs, life satisfaction, relationship status, marriage

College

Family, Home, and Social Sciences

Department

Family Life

Abstract

The Marital Paradigm framework [MPF] (Willoughby & Hall, 2013) is a new conceptual model and body of terminology focused on organizing marital attitudes scholarship. Recent scholarship has established that marital attitudes have a strong impact on outcomes. Willoughby and colleagues’ work demonstrates the effect an individual’s marital attitudes have on the formation of others’ marital attitudes, from which measureable outcomes such as delaying marriage have been found (Willoughby & Carrol, 2012; Willoughby & Olson, 2012). Considering this connection between marital attitudes and outcomes, we decided to investigate another outcome of importance in relation to marital attitudes—life satisfaction. General attitudinal research has been linked with life satisfaction using to the “top-down” argument, which posits that one’s attitudes are a causal factor in one’s experience perception (Diener & Ryan, 2009). Marital attitudes are defined by MPF into six dimensions which encompass beliefs about getting married and being married, with three dimensions in each. Marital beliefs are smaller components of the larger attitude.

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