Economic abuse and relationship satisfaction within pre-marital couples

Intimate relationships between partners opens the way not only to share happiness, joy but also to be aggressive, hostile, show anger, be abusive to partner. One of this abuse which is non-physical in form namely Economic abuse has been the core target of this present research. Economic abuse is a type of non-physical abuse that can affect the victim’s own gaining of financial resources to achieve economic self-sufficiency for living a healthy life. Economic abuse is a unique kind of abuse. Objectives of the present study included to explore whether there is any gender difference in economic abuse within young adults and whether any personal attributes influence the occurrence of economic abuse. Another objective of the study was to assess the satisfaction in their relationship and a subsequent objective was to examine whether these two facets are correlated. Based on previous research findings one of the hypotheses was that females would be more prone to economic abuse then their male counterpart. Another hypothesis was that any demographic/personal attributes can strengthened the occurrence of economic abuse. A final hypothesis was that abuse in any relationship would lessen the satisfaction in the same. The results of this study supports the hypotheses. Female suffers more economic abuse (both economic control and economic exploitation) of their economic resources by their male partner and women’s income had positive correlation with them being economically abused. Subsequently occurrence of more economic abuse leads to less satisfaction in the relationship.