Relationship of role expectations and advantages of spouses with marriage satisfaction

The analysis of psychological factors determining the satisfaction of spouses with marriage relations is carried out. Disclosed are modern approaches to the concepts of “family” and “marriage” in domestic and foreign literature. The substantiation of the factors influencing the satisfaction with the marriage, the results of the analysis of studies of the relationship between the role expectations and claims of spouses with the satisfaction with the marriage are presented. The psychodiagnostic techniques are presented to study role expectations and aspirations. The description of the conducted experimental study is given. For men, the most important are family values: parenting and educational, social activity, external attractiveness. Values are significant for women: external attractiveness, emotional and psychotherapeutic, social activity. The greatest inconsistency in family values was found on the scale of personal identification and on the scale of external attractiveness. The study opens up prospects for further study of the problem of the influence on satisfaction with marriage of various factors affecting relationships between partners.