Researcher 2019;11(3) http://www.sciencepub.net/researcher 26 Marital Satisfaction: An Assessment Of Its Fundamental Factors In Nigerian * Ogungbola O. O., Akomolafe A. A, Department of Statistics, Federal University of Technology Akure, P.M.B. 704, Akure, Ondo State Nigeria. (ooogungbola@futa.edu.ng , aaakomolafe@futa.edu.ng ), Email of the corresponding author: ooogungbola@futa.edu.ng . Tel.: +234-806-0464240 Abstract: In this research we studied the act of couples towards marital relationships. Questionnaire measures of these variables were completed by a broad sample of 120 married couples, living in Nigeria. We evaluated the quality of their current marital satisfaction and they were asked to fulfil the Marriage and Relationship Questionnaire (MARQ), result and findings shows that Problems with the Partner, Personal Problems were more significant in the life of our Nigeria couples, family ties is considered the most important factor for marital satisfaction. The correlation between scores by men and women are partially negatively correlated such as partnership, family ties, conciliation and personal problems while others scales are positively correlated. [Ogungbola O. O., Akomolafe A. A,. Marital Satisfaction: An Assessment Of Its Fundamental Factors In Nigerian. Researcher 2019;11(3):26-30]. ISSN 1553-9865 (print); ISSN 2163-8950 (online). http://www.sciencepub.net/researcher . 5. doi:10.7537/marsrsj110319.05 . Keywords: Spearman’s correlation, student’s t-test, sexual jealousy, family ties, significant value 1. Introduction Marital satisfaction is conceptualized as the extent to which an individual has a positive attitude about, or positive feelings toward, the marriage partner and relationship. Although it may be based upon objective criteria (e.g., how frequently the partner says, “I love you”), marital satisfaction is a subjective evaluation of the partner and relationship Sabatelli, 1988). Marital satisfaction is a mental state that reflects the perceived benefits and costs of marriage to a particular person (Ammar and Saim 2018). According to Schoen, Astone, Rothert, Standish, and Kim (2008) marital satisfaction is a global evaluation of the state of one’s marriage and a reflection of marital happiness and functioning. Marital satisfaction is the phenomenon that is strictly supposed to be related with trust among couples. Broadly, the topic is trust in couple relationships, particularly marital relationships (Ammar and Saim 2018). It is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon (Mosmann et al 2007), which has been extensively explored by the most diverse scientific fields. Social and behavioral scientists have been concerned with relations between the work and family, as the rate of female employment continues to rise affecting an ever increasing proportion of married women. A link between employment outside the home and marital happiness of married working women has long been suspected. Since two decades, research has focused on the relation between work and family experiences. Therefore, the satisfaction of a spouse depends, to some extent, on how well his or her marriage responds to the expectations and duties imposed by the cultural and social spheres. In Western industrialized cultures, the criteria of satisfaction are related to goals of self-gratification or to the ideals of happiness established between spouses. In countries with a more collectivist background, on the other hand, the criteria of satisfaction relate to the way relatives of the spouses are treated, as happens in China. The spouses estimate the marital satisfaction by keeping track of its costs and benefits, based upon their life’s history. That‘s why the sociocultural context is of great importance in interpersonal relations, acting as a force of ecological adaptability for the individuals, especially in more intimate relationship, as is the case in a marital relationship. Beyond the intercultural differences in the way marital relationship are evaluated, there are also difference within the same culture that may bring spouses to adopt different criteria for marital satisfaction, influenced by the sociopolitical and cultural context of the countries they live in (Lucas et al., 2008) and probably related to the culturally established sexual roles. Consequently, we conducted 13 general classes of meta-analyses: personality marital satisfaction, personality-life satisfaction, personality-social satisfaction, personality-health satisfaction, marital satisfaction-job satisfaction, marital satisfaction health satisfaction, marital satisfaction-social satisfaction, marital satisfaction-life satisfaction, job satisfaction- social satisfaction, job satisfaction-health satisfaction, social satisfaction-life satisfaction, health satisfaction- life satisfaction and health satisfaction social satisfaction.