A manifestação da empatia e sua influência na satisfação conjugal

• Autor(a) principal: Malamut, Gabriela
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15284
• topic: Empathy; Marital Relationship; Marital Satisfaction; Relacionamento Conjugal; Satisfação Conjugal; Empatia; Marido e mulher; Comunicação no casamento; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA SOCIAL

The satisfaction reached with marriage strongly influences life quality. On the other side, marriage conflicts are related to health problems, violence and divorce. Even with the inherent difficulties of each relationship, marriage stills seems to be a desire to be reached by a lot of people. However, in order to the relationship to be a source of happiness, resulting in a satisfying relationship, couples need to invest in a constant development of skills to be able to deal with the adversities related with shared life. Some studies suggests that the capacity of listening and comprehend, as well as the capacity to demonstrate sensibility in face of partner necessity (empathy) constitute important factors for a happy marriage, as far as the spouse feels listened and comprehended, they feel more safe and valued. Nonetheless, It is not clear yet if the spouse that manifests empathy (manifested empathy) experiences as much marital satisfaction as the one that received empathy (received empathy). In this study we investigated the predictive value of the expression of empathy related to marital satisfaction. Three methods of auto-inform measurements were used to evaluate: scale of marital satisfaction (ESC) (Dela Coleta, 1989), to analyze marital satisfaction; inventory of empathy (IE) (Falcone & cols., 2008), to evaluate empathy in general; questionnaire of marital empathy (QEC) (Oliveira, Falcone & Ribas, 2009). This last one was adapted to become an auto-inform questionnaire. All three questionnaires were answered by 108 marriage people, between 39 men and 69 women. We used a multiple regression analysis, in which the measurement of marital satisfaction was the dependent variable and the five factors related to the two measurements of empathy were the independent variables. It was shown that the expression of marital empathy was predictive of marital satisfaction in its three dimensions: 1) marital interaction (MI); 2) emotional aspects (EA); 3) structural aspects (SA). Between the factors analyzed in the inventory of empathy (IE), affective sensibility (AS) was inversely predictive of the emotional aspects (EA) in the scale of marital satisfaction (r= -0.23 e p<0.05). Regarding the inventory of empathy (IE), and the relation between its factors on the questionnaire of marital empathy (QEC), the perspective uptake and the affective sensibility showed a very high correlation, statistically significant (r=.38 e p<.001 e r=.35 e p<.001, respectively). We expect this study can contribute to build up programs intended to develop empathy in marriage people in order to facilitate communication between spouses and improving marital satisfaction.