Cohabitation and marital stability of married Filipinos

• Main Authors: Hipolito, Joanna Fe H., Ruivivar, Kathrina Joyce B.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2000
• Subjects: Marriage; Families; Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_bachelors/4407
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study focuses on looking at the level of marital stability of married Filipinos on the basis of whether or not they engaged in cohabitation. The participants that were gathered in the study were married Filipinos who engaged and those who did not engaged in cohabitation. Four factors that were considered as a basis for the stability of marriage are financial status, emotional status, intimacy, and parent-child relationship. The researchers used a descriptive type of research for this study. The researchers found out from the gathered data that married Filipinos who engaged themselves in cohabitation have high marital stability than those who did not engaged in cohabitation.