Maria Chmielewska

Institute of Psychology, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw

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01-815 Warszawa

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Marital Quality in the Context of Interpersonal Dependency

E-mail: chmielewska3@wp.pl

ABSTRACT. The survey presented in this paper partly proved the main hypothesis “Marital quality and the degree of interpersonal dependency are in inverse proportion, i.e. the higher marital quality, the lower the degree of interpersonal dependency”. The phenomenon of interpersonal dependency is derived from the concept of codependency, which is mainly related to alcoholism, but also to other types of mental and physical dependence on the substance or process.

Received: April, 2012

1st Revision: June, 2012

Accepted: September, 2012

JEL Classification: F22, Z10

Keywords: the quality of the marriage; interpersonal dependency, marriage