effective communication training to improve the satisfaction of weddingmarriage / long distance marriage (ldm) review marriage commitments frommarriage commitment

This study aims to improve marital satisfaction, communication and marriage commitments towives who undergo long distance marriage in indonesia malaysia. data was taken from 33 subjects, andscoring and entering categories. a total of 15 mothers have low to very low marital satisfaction,communication and commitment to marriage. however, only 12 subjects were willing to take effectivecommunication training until completion. the training provided is effective communication training toimprove marital satisfaction, communication and marriage commitments. the subjects of effectivecommunication training are mothers who live in serah panceng gresik village, aged 23-45 years andhave a marriage age of 6-26 years and have 1-2 children. most work as housewives and have an averagehigh school education. this research is an experimental research. the experimental design used was a onegroup design in the form of one group pretest-posttest design. data analysis using the independentsample t-test and product moment. the results of the first hypothesis significance level of 0,000 <0.01,which means that there are significant differences in both communication and marriage satisfaction beforeand after training is given. the second hypothesis is the significance level of 0.026 <0.05, which meansthere is a positive relationship between communication and marital satisfaction. the third hypothesis isthe significance level of 0.018 <0.05, which means there is a positive relationship between marriagecommitment and marital satisfaction.