Marital Adjustment and Happiness among Married Individuals: The Mediating Role of Love Languages

Abstract

The current research aims to study the mediating role of love languages on marital adjustment and happiness. The study sample is selected from the married individuals from Punjab province Pakistan. The sample comprises of 210 males and 190 females ranging from age 25 – 50 years with M= 19.87 and SD= 1.45 of participants who are married. The estimated sample size of the respondents was (N=400) who were recruited through convenient sampling. Urdu versions of the scales were used. The marital adjustment was measured by Marital Adjustment Test (Locke & Wallace, 1959), happiness was measured by the Subjective Happiness Scale (Lyubomirsky & Lepper, 1999), and the love languages were measured by the Gary Chapman Love Languages Scale (Egbert & Polk, 2006). The results concluded that love languages mediated the role between marital adjustment and happiness. The males scored higher gender differences in love languages. The implication includes strengthening of the marital relationships and knowing about the relationship dynamics in general.