The present global study attempts to verify the links between marital satisfaction and the number of children as well as its moderators in an international sample.
Data for the study was obtained from our published dataset and included married individuals from 33 countries and territories. We found that the number of children was a significant negative predictor of marital satisfaction; also sex, education, and religiosity were interacting with the number of children and marital satisfaction, while there were no interactions with economic status and individual level of individualistic values.
The main contribution of the present research is extending our knowledge on the relationship between marital satisfaction and the number of children in several, non-Western countries and territories. An international survey. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Competing interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. Paying attention to the lights and shadows of parenthood, researchers emphasize a multifaceted influence of becoming a parent on well-being [ 1 — 3 ], and more specifically, on marital satisfaction [ 4 — 6 ], especially while the number of children in a family grows [ 7 — 9 ].
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