The Influence of Communication Intensity via Smartphone and Intimacy Communication toward Marital Satisfaction on Working Women in Millenial Era

摘要

The purpose of this study is to see the effect of intimate communication and smartphone communication intensity toward marriage satisfaction in working women in Jakarta. Respondent age is between 18 to 40 years old (M =28; SD = 0.42). The research method is quantitative method using convenient sampling method and multiple regression statistic to analyze the data. The hypothesis of this study is there is a significant effect between intimate communication and smartphone communication intensity simultaneously toward marriage satisfaction of working women in Jakarta. The result showed that those two independent variables are significantly giving influence to marital satisfaction (R= 0.48; p= 0.000). According to the result, the intensity of using smartphone for communication had negative influence toward marital satisfaction. Meaning, the more responden using smartphone for communicating the less satisfied their marriage.