著者

竹下 修子

出版者

学術雑誌目次速報データベース由来

雑誌

ソシオロジ (ISSN:05841380)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.45, no.2, pp.55-68,179, 2000

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The purpose of this study is to examine the relation between the marital satisfaction of religious intermarriage couples and two aspects: the wives' adaptability to Islamic way of life and the connection with their relatives. The wives' adaptability to Islamic way of life contains her worship, Ramadan, diet and veil. The connection with their relatives includes opposition to their marriage from the wife's parents, opposition to their marriage from the husband's parents, the wife's parents' acceptability to Islamic way of life, the wife's attendance at Buddhist funerals and the wife's displeasure at her husband's aid to his relatives.<br> The data was obtained through a survey which I conducted from October to November in 1999. The subjects of the survey were 61 religious intermarriage couples (foreign Muslim and Japanese women) living in Japan.<br> According to the result of multiple regression analysis, when a wife worships 5 times a day, the couple's marital satisfaction is higher than when a wife doesn't worship. Also, when a wife always wears a veil, the couple's marital satisfaction is higher than when a wife doesn't wear a veil. Both the wives' worship and veils are connected with the husbands' marital satisfaction more than the wives'. It means that the wives' adaptability to Islamic way of life is more important to the husbands. Furthermore, when a wife feels displeasure at her husband's aid to his relatives, the couple's marital satisfaction is lowered. It means that when a wife doesn't feel displeasure at her husband's support to his relatives, she understands Islamic principle, and is considerate to her husband and her in-laws.