The Influence of Couple Harmony and Marital Adjustment to Marital Happiness

Abstract

Marital happiness is the beginning of the establishment of happy family, which then produces qualified and healthy generation both physically and psychologically. It is of course an investment for establishment of a strong and firm country. Some factors, both external and internal, can influence the marital happiness. This research is aimed to find out the influence couple harmony and marital adjustment. It applied quantitative approach which include in explanatory descriptive research. The number of research subject is 236 persons from four regions in Madura, which have the following criteria: (1) both husband and wife are Madurese, couples who have been married for 3 to 5 years, both are born in Madura, the couples have biological children from their marriage. Collecting data was carried out using questionnaire which was created based on ordinal scale from Likert. Then, data analysis applied SEM (Structural Equation Modeling) with the help of lisrel program version 8.7. The result of this research shows that (1) the couple harmony have positive and significant roles toward the improvement of marital happiness; (2) the influence of marital adjustment, which consists of couple adjustment, economic adjustment, children adjustment, and extended family of coupletoward the improvement of the marital happiness; (3) marital happiness can be built when couples minimaly of conflict and rejected on marital life; (4) on the marital life together with good adjustment to maintain the marriage.