Jakość życia małżeńskiego a podmiotowa pomyślność jednostki

Abstract

This article presents the most recent trends in the relationship between marital status and psychological well-being. The main problem is how to interpret it in causal terms. This is an attempt to show how through different predictors (fulfilling social roles, social support experience, stress, depression, self-esteem) psychological well-being has some effect on marital status (- what is consistent with social selection hypothesis) and vice versa: marital status has an effect on subjective well-being (- what is relating to social causation hypothesis).