DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2019.v07i03.013

Pages: 180-186

Financial management skills are a mandatory lesson during premarital counselling and or education. It is also a conspicuous part of popular applied psychology; encamping life’s income and expenditure, engrossed in daily expenses as well as savings. The study aimed at establishing influence of premarital counselling on financial management skills within marriage. Study surveyed behavioural traits within marriage in reference to income and expenditure according to Bazizomenyi-Nagi’s Contextual Family Therapy, and Ellis Rational emotive Behaviour theories. Among other factors, spousal relatedness and agreement on income and expenditure has become a continuous consultative exercise. Out of a total population of 355,005 a sample of 416 married men and women participated, in the study. Findings elaborated that husband and wife should trust each other and be open in handling all their financial undertakings. In addition living within a family’s means, budgeting, controlling expenditure and avoiding impulse buying, stabilises family financial undertakings. The study concluded that family income is positively correlated with marital satisfaction which leads to embracing self-acceptance and disclosure to spouse.