Peculiarities of relations between spouses with different types of religious orientation in an interethnic marriage

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of the nature of relationships between spouses of different nationalities. The relevance of the study is due to the high level of interethnic marriages in our country and in the world as a whole. The purpose of the study is to study the psychological characteristics and problems of marital relations in interethnic marriages, where the spouses are representatives of different types of religious orientation. Nationality and type of religious orientation of the spouses are presented as independent variables of the study. The subject of analysis is the psychological characteristics of marital relations in interethnic marriages with spouses of different faiths. The methodological basis of the empirical study is the activity principle (S.L. Rubinstein, A.N. Leontiev, etc.), the principle of systemic determination and analysis (L.S. Vygotsky, B.F. Lomov, etc.), and the personal approach (S.L. Rubinstein, B.G. Ananyev, etc.). The empirical program included an analysis of the results using the technique "Role Expectations and Claims in Marriage" by A.N. Volkova; the method "Communication in the Family" by Yu.E. Aleshina, L.Ya. Gozman, E.M. Dubovskaya; the method "The Nature of Interaction of Spouses in Conflict Situations" by Yu.E. Aleshina, L.Ya. Gozman, E.M. Dubovskaya. To determine the religious orientation of the spouses, the "Religious Orientation Questionnaire" by I.M. Bogdanovskaya and the "Religious Orientation Scale" by G. Allport, D. Ross were used.

This research topic is interdisciplinary and includes aspects of social psychology, family psychology, ethnopsychology. The results of the study emphasize the importance of determining the type of religiosity of each of the spouses in the study of the characteristics of marital relationships and solving issues of disruption of the marital interaction system within the framework of family counseling.