Relación entre la comunicación en pareja, la satisfacción marital y la satisfacción sexual en adultos casados de 30-50 años de edad del personal administrativo y docente de la Universidad de Cuenca durante el periodo marzo-agosto 2022

Abstract

In Ecuador, there is evidence of a growing trend towards divorce. According to data from the INEC (2020), the most common causes are directly linked to a dysfunctional marital nucleus, unable to balance the main foundations that support a relationship together with communication difficulties. Therefore, the present quantitative study, with a descriptivecorrelational scope, sought to identify the relationship between the patterns of communication in couples, the level of marital satisfaction, and the level of sexual satisfaction; and to describe their dimensions. For this, 98 married adults between 30-50 years from the administrative and teaching staff of the University of Cuenca were chosen as participants; this, between March and June of 2022. The data collection was developed through three different instruments: questionnaire of marital communication (Estrella, 1991), marital satisfaction scale (Pick and Andrade, 1988), and new sexual satisfaction scale (Stulhofer, et al., 2010), which had an α=.9. As a result, it was determined that the predominant dimension in the communication pattern was based on feelings, emotions and dislikes; while, in marital satisfaction, it was the conjugal interaction; and, for sexual satisfaction, the interpersonal dimension. Likewise, there is a significant relationship between the studied variables; therefore, it was concluded that communication is important to express such variables, since their predominant dimensions have an interactional nature, in addition to the fact that there is an interdependence between them