THE RELATION BETWEEN ROMANTIC SELF-EFFICACY WITH MARRIAGE SATISFACTION ON THE COMMUTER MARRIAGE WIFE

Abstract

The fact of marriage not always live together. This study aims to examine the relationship of
romantic self-efficacy with marital satisfaction in wives undergoing commuter marriage type
adjusting who have children. The phenomenon of commuter marriage is a marriage between a
husband and wife who had previously been based on the commitment of the husband and wife
living separately. The method of data collection uses the survey method. The instrument in this
research uses the Self-Efficacy scale on romantic relationships arranged based on the marriage
satisfaction theory by Fowers & Olson. The result of this study obtained a significant value
between Self-Efficacy on the romantic relationship with marital satisfaction with a significance
value of 0,000 (<0.05) and a correlation coefficient of 0.647. The conclusion when individuals
have firm self-efficacy beliefs, and they also tend to have satisfaction with their relationships.
This is then able to strengthen and improve their Self-Efficacy.