The Effect of Marriage Satisfaction on Divorce Attitudes; a study on Married Couples in a Covid-19 Pandemic Situation in Makassar City
Nur Syamsu Ismail and Andi Tenri Pada Rustham

Psychology Study Program, Medical Faculty, Universitas Hasanuddin

Abstract

The divorce rate in South Sulawesi province is the highest outside Java. Based on data released by the Director General of the Religious Courts in 2016, South Sulawesi is in fourth place after East Java, West Java and Central Java. Makassar, the capital city of South Sulawesi, 3,543 couples divorced during the period of 2019. Psychologically, one of the factors that affect divorce is marriage satisfaction. The attitude towards divorce which is the beginning of the emergence of divorce behavior, one of which is influenced by the partners satisfaction with his marriage.
This research is a quantitative study that tries to find the effect of marriage satisfaction on attitudes towards divorce in the city of Makassar. 188 residents of the city of Makassar were involved as samples in this study. The collected data were then analyzed using SPSS with simple linear regression analysis techniques.
The results showed that there was an effect of marriage satisfaction on attitudes towards divorce in the city of Makassar (sig = 0.000 <0.005). From this research it was also found that marriage satisfaction contributed 48.6% (R Square 0.486).

Keywords: marriage satisfaction, attitudes towards divorce, Married Couples in a Covid-19 Pandemic Situation in Makassar City

Topic: Women and mental health