Life Satisfaction in Relation to Orientations to Happiness and Happiness Enhancing Activities in Married Couples: An Application of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediation Model
AUTHOR : 임정하,김경민,강현지,조은영
INFORMATION : page. 157~177 / 2017 Vol.24 No.2
ABSTRACT
This study examined the actor and partner effect of orientations to happiness and happiness-enhancing
activities on life satisfaction. The self-reported data were collected as a dyad unit consisting of 276 married
couples aged from 30 to 59 and living in Seoul and Gyeonggi province. The data were analyzed using
paired-t tests, correlations and APIMeM. The results were as follows. First, the husbands reported relatively
high endorsement of seeking meaning compared to their wives. The husbands spent more time in
goal-focused activities than their wives, while the wives spent more time in community and personal
relationship activities than their husbands did. The husbands reported greater life satisfaction than their
wives. Second, the actor effects of orientations to happiness on life satisfaction through happiness-enhancing
activities were significant both in the husbands and wives. However, the partner effect of happinessenhancing
activities on life satisfaction was significant only from the wives to the husbands. These findings
would provide information and resources for practical programs enhancing the life satisfaction of married
couples.