Does it Take a Village to Make a Marriage? Exploring the Relationship between Community and Marital Satisfaction

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship between community and marital satisfaction using evidence from Utah. To do so, we analyze the effects of three sets of independent variables on marital satisfaction: demographic variables (number of children, education, household income, age, and religious affiliation), neighborhood quality (neighborhood assessment and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level), and community integration (use of community services, volunteer work, and length of community residence). Seemingly Unrelated Regression analyses of survey data from northern Utah demonstrate that religious affiliation (negative association) and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level (positive association) are significantly associated with women's marital satisfaction. For men, neighborhood assessment and perceptions of informal helping at the neighborhood level are positively and significantly associated with marital satisfaction.

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