Marital Relation Strategies for Businessman: Husband vs Wife Perspective

Abstract

The previous study showed that marital relation strategies, based on the husband perspective, could increase the husband efficacy to running and develop his business through spousal involvement and emotional social support. That last study didn’t investigate yet about the similarity between the husband’s marital relation strategy attitude and the wife expectation about the strategies. The purpose of this study is investigating the similarity of marital relation strategies between the husband attitude and the wife expectation. The subjects were 14 businessmen and his spouse in Surabaya, Indonesia. All of data distribution are normal and homogeneous. The data was analyzed by Paired Sample T-Test. The result of analysis showed that wife was expect bigger than husband on openness strategy and advice strategy. There’s no difference perspective between husband and wife for other strategies.