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Psychological Research and Intervention, 4(1), 2021, 9-18
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            Effect of Covid-19 related Stress on Marital Quality during
                                Covid-19 Pandemic
                                      Ni Nyoman Budiartini
                    Department of Psychology, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta;
                  Jl. Colombo No.1 Sleman Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta, 55281
                                     itsdiartini@gmail.com

                                               Abstract
This research aimed to understand the effect of stress during the pandemic on marital quality in
Bali. This research used a quantitative approach. Subjects involved in this research were 242 people
who had been married for at least five years, with intact family conditions, and lived in Denpasar
City, Bali. The instruments in this research were the COVID Stress Scale from Taylor (2020) and
the Marital Quality scale arranged by Nurhayati (2017). The validity of this research used content
validity by expert judgment. Reliability in the scale of this research used the Cronbach Alpha
reliability coefficient. The COVID stress variable has a reliability of 0.934, while the variable of
marital quality has a reliability of 0.889. As for the data analysis, descriptive analysis and simple
linear regression analysis were used. Based on the data analysis, the regression coefficient was 0.028
and sig. 0.307, with the value of R square = 0.004. The results showed that COVID stress does not
affect the marital quality in Bali.

Keywords: marital quality, stress, COVID-19 pandemic
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Introduction
       According to Indonesian statute no. 1         partner, such as (workplace or family
1974, marriage is a bond between a man and           environment) if not appropriately resolved,
a woman as husband and wife to form a                can cause stress. High levels of stress in a
happy and eternal family (household) based           marital relationship and the absence of
on the One God. Getting married and then             problem-solving sources of stress can affect
building a happy and whole family and                an individual’s evaluation of the marriage
having healthy children is the dream of              itself.
many people.                                                 The quality of marriage is a subjective
       Marriage means uniting two                    evaluation of the relationship between
individuals with different characters, both          husband and wife, high quality of marriage
of whom must accept all the good and bad             is related to smooth communication, good
sides. They also have to be ready to go              adjustment of the couple, a high level of
through the hardships and joys of life               happiness and a high level of marital
together until the end of life (Oktarina,            satisfaction with the husband and wife
Wijaya, & Demartoto, 2015). Domestic life            household relationship (Herlanda, 2017).
does not always run smoothly because                 The quality of marriage is essential. The
sometimes there are conflicts that must be           poor quality of a marriage not only gives
faced. Conflicts within the couple’s                 unhappiness to the partner or the closest
relationship or conflicts from outside the           people involved in the marriage but can also
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lead      to      decreased       productivity,     satisfaction (Randall & Bondenmann, 2009;
psychological disorders, interpersonal              Randall & Bodenmann, 2017). The
conflicts or even divorce (Rahmah,                  pandemic is one of the external stressors for
Rahman, & Fitriah, 2017).                           couples and families, especially for those
       Based on data summarized from the            directly affected and get fatal consequences
Denpasar Population and Civil Registry              (for example, those who contract the
Office and the Denpasar City Religious              COVID-19 disease, become unemployed
Court, it was recorded that from 2015 to            or experience financial losses). According
2019, the divorce rate in Denpasar City             to Setiawan & Rahmat (2011), there is a
continued to increase. In 2015, the number          significant        relationship       between
of legal divorce cases was 705 cases. Then          socioeconomic status and stress levels in
in 2016, the number increased to 740 cases.         young couples.
In 2017, divorce cases in Denpasar had                     In addition to having an impact on
recorded as many as 717 cases, and in 2018,         financial stress, COVID-19 also impacts the
divorce cases in Denpasar again increased,          psychological side. In their research, Zhang
which was recorded as many as 884 cases.            & Ma (2020) stated that 52.1% of study
Meanwhile, from January to December 6               participants felt horrified and anxious
2019, the number of divorce cases recorded          because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
at the Denpasar City Religious Court was            Participants’ overall scores indicated the
504 (Widyaswara, 2019).                             impact of mild stress. One possible reason
       Stress caused by financial conditions        for this finding is that disease outbreaks
and stress, in general, can be associated with      were not considered severe when the study
poor marital quality (Ellison, Henderson,           was conducted. In addition, participants
Glenn, & Harkrider, 2011). Clayson & Frost          may still be uninformed about the severity
(1984) found that low-stress blue-collar            of the virus.
workers had significantly higher marital                   Research shows that significant life
satisfaction than high-stressed workers. In         events cause psychological stress, notable
addition, the stress in everyday relationships      events (such as a significant life change or
such as division of household tasks,                death of a family member) are closely
different goals and annoying habits of              related to illness (Kangxing et al., 2020).
spouses      tend      to    affect     marital     COVID-19 has become a pandemic
communication and marital quality of                disease, and now more than 6.66 million
couples (Ledermann, Bodenmann, Rudaz,               patients are confirmed infected and have
& Bradbury, 2010)                                   402,855 deaths worldwide.
       Randall & Bondenmann (2009)                         Both men and women who
divide stress into external stress and internal     experienced changes in income due to
stress. Bondenmann (1995, 2005 in Randall           disasters and had health complaints were
& Bondenmann 2009) and Story &                      associated with psychological stress.
Bradbury (2004, in Randall & Bondenmann             Household income from sources other than
2009) state that external stress is the             salary and rarely leaving home is associated
pressure outside the couple’s relationship.         with psychological stress in women. In
This mainly includes interactions between           contrast, young age, unemployment or job
partners and their social environment,              seeker status, and no informational support
which can indirectly affect the relationship,       are associated with psychological stress in
widespread stress between partners, and             men (Ishiguro et al., 2019).
stresses on partners, such as arguments and                The COVID-19 pandemic as an
conflicts.                                          external stressor can be a threat to family
       High levels of external stress are           resilience. Walsh (1996 in Uyun 2020)
associated with low levels of relationship          defines family resilience as the ability of the

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family to adapt and survive dynamically                    Aspects of psychological resilience
changing conditions and have a positive             include the ability to overcome non-
attitude towards existing challenges.               physical problems, control emotions
       Uyun (2020) states three aspects of          positively, positive self-concept, and
family resilience: physical resilience, social      concern among family members (Uyun,
resilience, and psychological resilience. The       2020). Uncontrolled changes such as
aspect of physical resilience is related to the     decreased income can affect individual
fulfilment of human physical needs such as          emotional control. Individuals who have
food, clothing, housing and health. Losing          low emotional control tend to vent their
a job or decreasing income during the               anger on their partners in the form of verbal
pandemic will significantly affect the              and physical violence. Conditions like this
fulfilment of basic needs and family health.        can cause stress to children and partners
In addition, it can cause family stability to       (Safitri, 2020).
be disturbed. Losing a job can be                          The non-fulfilment of the three
emotionally exhausting, especially when             aspects of family resilience during the
things are full of uncertainty that can cause       pandemic can be a burden that causes stress
stress (Uyun, 2020). According to Child and         to family members and possibly causes the
Family Psychologist Anna Surti Ariani, it           quality of marriages to be low. The
will affect all other family members when           pandemic causes many changes in people’s
one family member is sick during this               lives in various aspects that also affect
pandemic. The impact can be stress that             family life. This study was conducted to find
results in anger in a spouse or child. Such         out the effect of stress on marriage quality
circumstances can make the family situation         during the COVID-19 pandemic.
uncomfortable (Kurniawan, 2020).
       Aspects of social resilience are related     Methods
to relationships between individuals
oriented to religious values, effective             Participants
communication and high commitment in                       This study took a sample of 242
the family (Uyun, 2020). Pusparini (in              married people in Denpasar, consisting of
Safitri, 2020) stated that during the               115 men and 127 women. With age
COVID-19 pandemic, there was an                     distribution as follows: 21-30 years old = 32
increase in domestic violence (KDRT). One           people (13%); 31-40 years old = 79 people
reason is that family members meet too              (33%); 41-50 years old = 72 people (30%);
often, and the lack of positive                     51-60 years old = 55 people (23 %); 60+
communication between family members,               years = 4 people (2%). Distribution based
making them vulnerable to conflict.                 on the age of marriage as follows: 5-10 years
Takariawan (in Husna, 2020) said that the           = 83 people (34%); 11-20 years = 70 people
family had maintained a balance with time           (29%); 21-30 = 67 people (28%); 31-40
of togetherness and time of separateness so         years = 22 people (9%).
far. These two times form harmony in the
family, but the pandemic makes family               Data Collection and Instruments
members spend more time at home to                         The data collection technique chosen
reduce separation (separateness). Pusparini         to find data in this study is a questionnaire.
said that many families encounter conflict          Data collection uses the Marriage Quality
when they are together too often, even              Scale, consisting of 32 statements and the
though, ideally, quarantine can strengthen          COVID Stress Scale, which consists of 38
relations between family members (Safitri,          statements.
2020).                                                     The validity test used in this study is
                                                    content validity by expert judgment. A trial

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was conducted on 242 married people in              normality test of the data used the
Denpasar. Based on the item selection               Kolmogorov-Sminorv formula with the
results, there were no items that needed to         help of SPSS 24.0. The data can be said to
be dropped, so 38 items on the COVID                be normally distributed if the significance
Stress Scale were obtained consisting of 5          value is greater than 0.05 (Setiawati, 2017).
dimensions,      namely:      danger    and
contamination,               Socioeconomic          Linearity Test
consequences, xenophobia, compulsive                         A linearity test is used to determine
checking and reassurance-seeking, and               the linearity of the data, namely, whether
traumatic stress symptoms about COVID-              two variables have a linear relationship or
19. The Marriage Quality Scale consists of 2        not. The linearity test in this study uses the
dimensions, namely relations and welfare.           help of IBM Statistics SPSS 24.0. Two
       Sugiyono (2015) states that research         variables can have a linear relationship if the
instruments can be reliable if the                  significance (Deviation for Linearity) is
instruments used to measure the same                more than 0.05 (Purnomo, 2016).
object can produce the same data when               Hypothesis testing
done repeatedly. Reliability test using                      Hypothesis testing in this study uses
Cronbach’s alpha formula. The results               simple linear regression analysis. A simple
obtained for the reliability of the COVID           linear regression analysis test aims to predict
Stress Scale of 0.934 and the Marriage              the effect of one variable on another
Quality Scale of 0.899.                             variable (Setiawati, 2017).

Data Analysis                                       Findings
      The data were analyzed through 3-
steps: descriptive analysis, assumption                     The following are the results of the
check, and hypothesis testing.                      descriptive analysis in the form of
Descriptive Analysis                                categorization of COVID stress variables
      Descriptive analysis is a data analysis       and marital quality variables:
technique that aims to describe or describe
data (Setiawati, 2017). The categories of           1. COVID Stress Variables
data that have been collected will be                  Table 2. Categorization of COVID-19
converted into interval data using the                                 Stress
formula:                                               Categoy      Frequency Percentage
          Table 1. Categorization
  Categoy             Formula                         Very High       0             0%
 Very High X > μ + 1,5σ                               High            130           54%
 High         μ + 0,5σ < X ≤ μ + 1,5σ
                                                      Medium          76            31%
 Medium       μ - 0,5σ < X ≤ μ + 0,5σ
 Low          μ - 1,5σ < X ≤ μ - 0,5σ                 Low             29            12%
 Very Low X ≤ μ - 1,5σ                                Very Low        7             3%
μ: hypothetical mean
σ: standard deviation

Normality test
       According to Setiawati (2017), the
normality test is a test of the data to be
analyzed, related to the distribution (spread)
in the form of a normal curve. The

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                                                       socioeconomic consequences do not
2. Marital Quality Variables                           affect the quality of marriage.
    Table 3. Categorization of Marriage             3. The significance value of the
                   Quality                             xenophobia dimension is 0.755 (p >
   Categoy      Frequency Percentage                   0.05). It can be concluded that
                                                       xenophobia does not affect the quality
 Very High      241            99,6%                   of marriage.
 High           1              0,4%                 4. The significance value of the traumatic
                                                       stress symptoms dimension is 0.273 (p
 Medium         0              0%                      > 0.05). It can be concluded that
 Low            0              0%                      traumatic stress symptoms do not
                                                       affect the quality of marriage.
 Very Low       0              0%                   5. The significance value of the
                                                       compulsive checking and reassurance
                                                       seeking dimension was obtained at
Normality Test Results                                 0.102 (p > 0.05). It can be concluded
         Based on the normality test results,          that compulsive checking and
a significance value of 0.075 was obtained,            reassurance seeking does not affect the
which was greater than 0.05. Following the             quality of marriage.
decision-making basis for the Kolmogorov-
Smirnov normality test, it can be concluded        Discussion
that the data in this study meet the
assumption of normality.                                    The results of the descriptive
Linearity Test Results                             analysis showed that the stress felt by the
         The significance value for the            subject tended to be in the high category, as
COVID stress variable with the marital             many as 130 people or 54%. During a
quality variable was 0.131, greater than 0.05      pandemic, many people exhibit fear and
or p > 0.05. Thus, it can be said that the         anxiety-related stress responses, which
COVID stress variable and the quality of           include: fear of infection, fear of coming
marriage have a linear relationship.               into contact with objects or surfaces that
Hypothesis Test Results                            may be contaminated, fear of strangers who
         The results of hypothesis testing         may carry the infection, fear of the
using linear regression analysis showed a          socioeconomic consequences of the
significance value (Sig.) of 0.307, greater        pandemic, compulsive checking and seek
than 0.05. Thus, it can be concluded that          information about possible pandemic-
there is no effect of COVID stress (X) on          related threats, and symptoms of pandemic-
marriage quality (Y). The results of the           related traumatic stress (Taylor, 2020).
analysis of the COVID Stress dimension                      The results of the descriptive
with the quality of marriage are obtained as       analysis showed that more than half of the
follows:                                           population sample had stress levels in the
 1. The significance value of the danger           high category. These findings are similar to
     and contamination fears dimension is          studies from China showing nearly 35% of
     0.758 (p > 0.05). It can be concluded         the general population experienced
     that danger and contamination fears do        moderate to severe levels of stress or
     not affect the quality of marriage.           anxiety-related symptoms in response to
 2. The significance value of the                  COVID-19 (Qiu et al., 2020; Wang et al.,
     dimension       of      fears     about       2020). Another study in Italy showed that as
     socioeconomic consequences is 0.401.          many as 2012 (72.8%) respondents had
     It can be concluded that fears about          stress levels in the medium category, 404

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(14.6%) were in the high category, and 347          care. This teaching contains a philosophy so
(12.6%) were in the very high category              that fellow humans can empathize with
(Mazza, 2020 ).                                     other humans (Adhi, 2016). Tat Twam Asi
         Subjects with high-stress levels tend      teaches that as humans, we can love each
to feel worried about financial problems            other or love other humans. This teaching
and worry if they or those closest to them          implies that I am you and you are me, so
are infected with the virus. In line with           treat others as you would like to be treated
Taylor’s research (2017), among various             yourself. Couples who can empathize and
common causes of stress, financial                  love each other certainly have a high quality
difficulties are closely related to                 of marriage.
psychological stress in parents. The finding                 High levels of external stress are
of a high level of stress on the subject was        associated with low levels of relationship
also caused by the weakening of the tourism         satisfaction (Randall & Bondenmann, 2009;
sector due to decreased foreign tourist             Randall & Bodenmann, 2017). Ellison et al.
arrivals, causing hotels and other tourist          (2011) mention that financial conditions
attractions to lay off their employees. The         and stress, in general, can be associated with
Bali Province Manpower and Mineral                  poor marital quality. However, there is an
Resources Office (Disnaker) said that until         interesting finding in this study, namely that
April 19,124, people had been laid off, and         although most of the respondents showed a
480 people had been laid off (Riza, 2020).          high level of stress, it did not affect marriage
         The descriptive analysis of marital        quality. On the other hand, most of the
quality showed that almost all subjects had         subjects’ marriage quality was in the very
a very high level of marital quality in the         high category, 99.6%.
category of 239 people, or 99.6%.                            In their research, Yarber et al.
Meanwhile, in the high category, as many as         (2020) found that although many
one people or 0.4%. Marriage quality is a           individuals experienced stress due to the
subjective evaluation of a husband or wife          pandemic, overall marital emotional
on the quality of their marriage, which can         satisfaction remained the same. Most
be carried out on several aspects: closeness        individuals report an increased sense of
and warmth of relationships, cooperation,           teamwork and connection. Overall, more
respect, and welfare (Nurhayati, 2017).             participants agreed that the pandemic had a
Referring to research conducted by                  positive impact on their marriage. 74% of
researchers, subjects who have very high            participants      agreed      the     pandemic
and high marital quality tend to have warm          strengthened their marriage, and 82%
relationships, cooperate to face difficulties       agreed it made them feel more committed
and respect each other. In addition, those          to their marriage. 85% agree that the
who have a very high and high quality of            pandemic helped them appreciate their
marriage also show gratitude for their              partner more, helped them appreciate the
marriage, and they feel peaceful and                good life they had before the pandemic and
comfortable living together with their              brought their family together.
partner.                                                     The explanation for the findings in
         The strong culture of each couple          this study is that couples have good marital
may influence the high quality of marriage          stress management. The management of
in Balinese society. The life of the Balinese       marital stress is dyadic coping. Dyadic
people is very thick with the teachings or          coping is a pattern of interaction between
moral values of Tat Twam Asi. Tat Twam Asi          partners to cope with stressful situations
means you are me, and I am you, which               (Bodenmann, 2005). Every marriage has
contains the principles: joy and sorrow,            problems, and how a married couple solves
mutual love, mutual honing, and mutual              problems contributes to the marriage

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quality. Couples who experience more                international survey, Indonesia has the most
significant stress show a decrease in marital       religious population (Damarjati, 2020). It is
happiness. However, problem-solving                 undeniable that Balinese people are very
experiences can increase resilience in the          thick with religious activities, so that Bali is
face of subsequent stressors and affect             one of the spiritual tourism destinations
marital adjustment (Neff & Broady, 2011).           because tourists can see Balinese ritual
         Research conducted by Levesque et          activities almost every day (Budiasih, 2017).
al. (2014) mentions that dyadic coping              Prayer, rituals and religious beliefs can help
influences marital satisfaction; namely, the        a person cope when experiencing life’s
support from a partner will make                    stress because of hope and comfort
individuals more confident in dealing with          (Rammohan, Rao & Subbakrishna, 2002 in
perceived stress to feel satisfaction in their      Utami, 2012). Istiqomah & Mukhlis (2015)
marriage. In addition, Nugroho (2019)               found that there was a relationship between
research also states that the more often            religiosity and marital satisfaction. Couples
dyadic coping is carried out by one or both         with a high level of religiosity will be more
partners, the higher the level of marital           satisfied with their marriage (Istiqomah &
quality. The partner’s dyadic coping or             Mukhlis, 2015). Most of the subjects in this
social support is significantly associated          study felt grateful for their marriage to
with high marital quality (Bodenmann,               maintain the quality of their marriage in the
2006). Bondenmann (2005) states that                high category amidst the stress due to the
dyadic coping has two main objectives:              pandemic.
reducing the stress of each partner and                      Free time spent with a partner helps
improving the quality of a relationship.            increase closeness and intimacy (Fowers &
         In addition, the communication             Olson in Hepi Wahyuningsih, 2007).
factor also plays a role in producing a quality     According to Johnson (2005), there are
marriage. Communication in marriage has             many different reasons why couples do or
long been found to be a factor that affects         do not participate in leisure activities
the quality of marriage (Fowers, 1998 in            together. Work problems can also be
Nurhayati, 2019). Communication is an               considered a barrier to joint activities.
essential aspect in relationships to build          During the pandemic, many people are laid
positive and close relationships (Fowers &          off from work to have more free time to
Olson in Alkhusna & Wahyuningsih 2007).             spend with their partners. Shared leisure
         There is moral teaching in Balinese        time is an essential component of marital
society called Tri Kaya Parisudha, which            satisfaction between couples. Free time
means that humans can think, say and act            allows them to develop common interests
well. Thus, in communicating with other             and provides opportunities for healthy
individuals, it is expected to say good things      communication and spending quality time
to create harmony with others (Sentana,             together (Sharaievska, Kim, & Stodolska,
2017). Dewi & Sudhana (2013) mention                2013)
that effective communication between                         Couples who have been in a
husband and wife makes interpersonal                relationship longer and older tend to have
relationships good to realize harmony in            lower levels of conflict (Kamp Dush &
marriage. Couples who apply Tri Kaya                Taylor, 2012) and manage conflict more
Parisudha’s ethical teachings, especially in        constructive way than younger couples
saying good, are more likely to find                (Birditt et al., 2010). Subjects in this study
harmony in their marriage.                          had a marriage age of more than or equal to
         In addition, there are factors of          5 years, sufficient time for marriage
spirituality and religiosity that affect the        adjustment. In the first five years of
level of quality of marriage. According to an       marriage, individual adjustments and

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expectations before marriage will be tested,             Riset Inovatif (Senari) Ke-4 Tahun
and couples will also learn ways to deal with            2016
crises or conflicts (Kendhawati & Purba,           AlKhusna & Wahyuningsih, H. (2007).
2019). Individuals may know more about                   Kualitas Perkawinan Individu yang
their partners through shared problem-                   Menikah tanpa Pacaran. Psikologika,
solving experiences, mainly how couples                  24, 133-145
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in general (Delatorre & Wagner, 2018). The               McIlvane, J. M. (2010). Marital
length of marriage age in the subject may                conflict behaviors and implications
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Conclusion
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        Based on the research results, it can      Bodenmann, G., Pihet, S., & Kayser, K.
be concluded that the COVID stress                       (2006). The Relationship Between
variable does not significantly affect the               Dyadic Coping and Marital Quality: A
quality of marriage in married individuals in            2-Year Longitudinal Study. Journal of
Bali. Therefore, although the stress variable            Family Psychology, 20(3), 485-493.
in most subjects showed a high category, it              10.1037/0893-3200.20.3.485
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         Based on the research that has been
                                                   Budiasih, M. (2017). Pariwisata Spiritual di
done, the researcher has several suggestions             Bali. IHDN, 70-80.
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 1. For couples: implementing marital              Clayson, D., & Frost, T. (1984). Impact of
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     training classes for married couples and      Damarjati, D. (2020). Survei 34 Negara:
     prospective brides, (b) Expand the                  Orang Indonesia Paling Religius.
     reach of mental health services by                  Detiknews.        Retrieved        from:
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     teleconsultation.                                   5109802/survei-34-negara-orang-
                                                         indonesia-paling-religius?single=1
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