Attachment style and coping strategies as correlates of marital satisfaction among unemployed married women

The study examined attachment styles and coping strategies as correlate of marital satisfaction among unemployed married women. Participants were 100 in and out-patience’s drawn from Iyi-enu Mission Hospital Ogidi and St Charles Borromeo Hospital Onitsha. They were all married women because of the nature of the study. Their age ranged from 18- 50, with a mean age of 34years, and standard deviation of 1.20. Three instruments were deployed for data collection: Index of marital satisfaction, attachment style questionnaire and brief cope inventory. Correlational design was adopted and Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to analyze the data. Two hypotheses were stated. Result showed that attachment style have significant positive relationship with marital satisfaction at r=.534, p< .001 for secure attachment style, While coping strategies have significant and positive relationship with marital satisfaction at r = .304, p< .05 for approach coping strategy. It was recommended that married unemployed couples should confront the source of their problems in order to deal with them.