Orientacja sprawcza versus wspólnotowa a jakość relacji osób w związkach międzykulturowych

Abstract

The number of multicultural relationships is growing. This trend results from dynamic social changes, including i.a. migration, technological development, mobility, tourism, and new life models. Despite this, research still pays insufficient attention to them. The aim of the research was to assess the quality of multicultural relationships. The project took into account the agentic and communal orientation of the relationship partners in the assessment of the respondents. The quality of a relationship was assessed in a multidimensional manner (considering mutual communication, intimacy, quarrel behaviours, and sexual satisfaction). The mediating role of loneliness and trust, between partners' orientation and the quality of their relationship was also examined. Data obtained from 853 respondents aged 18-79 were analyzed (M=31.84; SD=11.82). The respondents included 418 Poles in multicultural relationships and 435 Poles in monocultural relationships. The following methods were used: the Scale of Agency and Communion, the Scale of Unmitigated Agency and Unmitigated Communion, the R-UCLA Revised Loneliness Scale, the Diadic Trust Scale, the Sexual Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Partnership Relations Questionnaire (PFB). It turned out that people in multicultural and monocultural relationships do not differ significantly in terms of agentic and communal orientation, and perceived coherence of the indicated orientations in the relationship. Higher levels of mutual communication, intimacy and quarrel behaviours were observed, as well as lower levels of sexual satisfaction in multicultural relationships compared to monocultural ones. The research results showed that loneliness and trust act as mediators (and two serial mediators) of relationships between selected orientations and relationship quality variables.