Can Black Women Achieve Marital Satisfaction? Participate In A Research Study Aiming To Answer This Very Question.

By Dwayne L. Buckingham

All women, including Black women, should be afforded the opportunity to achieve marital satisfaction if desired, regardless of the nature of their childhood experiences. However, decades of research have shown that childhood experiences can affect children throughout their childhoods, extending into their adulthoods. Previous research literature about the marital satisfaction for Black women tends to focus primarily on socioeconomic and social interactions, but no studies have been conducted that explore Black women’s childhood experiences and how these experiences impact perceptions of achieving marital satisfaction.

Although 69 percent of all Black children are born outside of marriage, research regarding how Black women perceive their childhood experience and impacts perceptions of marital satisfaction have been poorly researched. Engaging in such research will help Black women gain insight about their personal performance or capability. It will also offer increasing understanding of how their parents’ interactions during their childhood may have influenced their beliefs about their ability to accomplish tasks in childhood and how that self-confidence has extended into adulthood. Early works on child development posited that childhood experiences play an instrumental role in shaping and influencing the perceptions and behavior of adults.

Exploring and understanding the parent-child relationship is very important in explaining and understanding adult behavior because behaviors parents engage in serve as models for children and children’s well-being is associated with parental style.

The ability to achieve marital satisfaction is becoming more difficult for many Americans, especially Black women. If you struggle to achieve marital satisfaction and would like to gain insight into your childhood experience and how it impacts your perception of achieving marital satisfaction, we would like to speak with you.

If you are a married Black female, over the age of 18 and were raised in a two parent or guardian household, and are willing to talk about your childhood experience and perception of achieving marital satisfaction, please contact us to participate in the research study entitled, “A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Childhood Experience of Black Women and How These Experiences Impact Perceptions of Achieving Marital Satisfaction.”

See below to secure additional information and to discuss your eligibility. All participants will receive $30 for the participating in the interview.

A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Childhood Experience of Black Women and How These Experiences Impact Perceptions of Achieving Marital Satisfaction

Recruitment Information

The ability to achieve marital satisfaction is becoming more difficult for many Americans, especially Black women. If you struggle to achieve marital satisfaction and would like to gain insight into your childhood experience and how it impacts your perception of achieving marital satisfaction, we would like to speak with you. If you are a married Black female, over the age of 18 and was raised in a two parent or guardian household, and are willing to talk about your childhood experience and perception of achieving marital satisfaction, please contact us to participate in the research study enti- tled, “A Phenomenological Study of the Lived Childhood Experience of Black Women and How These Experiences Impact Perceptions of Achieving Marital Satisfaction.”

All participants will receive $30 for the participating in the interview.

Call the primary investigator: Dwayne L. Buckingham at 240-242-4087 to secure additional information and to discuss your eligibility.

Dwayne L. Buckingham is a doctoral learner in the School of Public Leadership at Capella University. He is also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and Founder/CEO of R.E.A.L. Horizons Consulting Service, LLC in Silver Spring, MD.