ABSTRACT
The objectives of the study was to examine the role of communication intensity, trust and social support on marital happiness among soldiers wives whose long distance marriageData were collected by asking participants to fill a set of questionnaires that includes marital happiness scale, intensity of marital communication scale, marital trust scale and social support scale. Participants of presents study were 80 wives of the soldiers who are staying at the dormitory of Batalyon. The technique of data analysis applied in this study is multiple linier regression. Based on the result of the multiple Iinier regression technique, it is concluded: ( 1) there was a significant influence of communication intensity, trust, and social support on marital happiness among the wives of out of town duty soldiers (F=54.564, p=0.000); (2) there is a very significant influence of communication intensity toward marital happiness among the wives of out of town duty soldiers, t=5.057, p=0. 000 (p>0.05); (3) there was a very significant influence of trust toward marital happiness among the wives of out of town duty soldiers, it is obtained t=3.869, p=0. 000 (p<0. 05) (4) there was no significant influence of social support toward marital happiness among the wives of out of town duty soldiers, it is obtained t=1.959, p=0.054 (p<0. 05 ) |
