Psychological Development and Education ›› 2023, Vol. 39 ›› Issue (3): 350-359.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2023.03.06

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The Influence of Prorelationship Motivation on Family Consumption Decision and Marital Satisfaction

LI Yue1, XIN Ziqiang2, LAN Yihua1   

  1. 1. Department of Psychology at School of Sociology and Psychology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing 100081;
    2. Department of Psychology, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872
  • Online:2023-05-15 Published:2023-05-13

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Abstract: Two studies are carried out to explore the influence of prorelationship motivation on family consumption decision and marital satisfaction. In Study 1, 118 individuals completed an individual decision making task about family consumption, the prorelationship motivation scale and the marital adjustment test. It was found that individual’s prorelationship motivation can negatively predict the rationality of family consumption decision, and positively predict marital satisfaction. In Study 2, the same tools were adopted to test 94 couples under the couple joint decision making situation. According to the mean of prorelationship motivation, couples were divided into three dyad types: homogeneous high prorelationship motivation couples, mixed prorelationship motivation couples and homogeneous low prorelationship motivation couples. It was found that when couples can interact with each other in decision making, there was no significant difference in the rationality of family consumption decision among three dyad types. However, the entire marital satisfaction of homogeneous high prorelationship motivation couples was significantly higher than the other two dyad types, but there is no significant difference between the other two types. In addition, it was also found that prorelationship motivation is correlated with age, marriageable age, children situation, education and income. The results above indicate the importance of interaction and communication in family consumption decision. Moreover, taken together, this research suggests that people had better cultivate prorelationship motivation in their marriage.

Key words: prorelationship motivation, family consumption decision, rationality, marital satisfaction, joint decision making

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  • B844
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