Relations Between Parents' Marital Relationships, Son's Marital Relationships and Subjective Well-Being

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the relations between the measure of marital relationships of parents, as perceived by married children, and measures of subjective well-being and satisfaction in romantic relationships. There were 118 Brazilian married individuals (M = 16.17 years; SD = 9.98), with a mean age of 41.55 (SD =10.01). The instruments used were: Scale of Subjective Well-being, Conjugality Parental Questionnaire and Scale Factor Satisfaction with Couple Relationships. We calculated the correlations between measurements of continuous variables of the factors of the instruments by Spearman coefficient, which indicated that the perception of sons and daughters on the parents' marital is not correlated with other variables. The marital relationship satisfaction was correlated with positive affect, highlighting the need to close readings of individual transformations from one's own marital experience.