Similarities in Perceived Marital Responsiveness Among Arab Couples After Retirement
Reem Nashef-Hamuda, Dikla Segel-Karpas, Roi Estlein, Yuval Palgi

TL;DR
This study examines how retired Arab couples perceive marital responsiveness and how it affects their life satisfaction and marital quality.
Contribution
The study reveals that individual perceptions of marital responsiveness, rather than dyadic congruence, better predict well-being in Arab retired couples.
Findings
Individual perceptions of marital responsiveness strongly predict life satisfaction and marital quality.
Dyadic congruence in perceived responsiveness does not significantly predict life satisfaction or marital quality.
Findings highlight cultural nuances in emotional support and challenge Western-centric assumptions about aging couples.
Abstract
This study explores the intricate relationship between perceived marital responsiveness, life satisfaction, and marital quality among retired Arab couples—a context largely understudied in non-Western collectivist societies. A total of 108 retired heterosexual couples (216 participants; husbands’ mean age = 70.31 years, wives’ mean age = 65.07 years, mean marital duration = 43.58 years) completed surveys assessing perceived marital responsiveness, life satisfaction, and marital quality. Using Dyadic Response Surface Analysis (DRSA), this study examined both individual and dyadic effects of perceived responsiveness on partners’ life satisfaction and marital quality. Contrary to prior research, dyadic congruence in perceived responsiveness—the degree to which partners perceive responsiveness similarly—did not significantly predict life satisfaction or marital quality. Instead, individual…
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
Taxonomy
TopicsAttachment and Relationship Dynamics · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Aging and Gerontology Research
