「婚姻滿意度」是一種主觀的認知，而這樣的認知受到哪些因素影響呢？自1970 年代起，家庭社會學家與婚姻心理學家相繼從社會交換與互動的觀點討論這個問題，而將主要的分析脈絡放置在個人、配偶以及夫妻互動模式等因素，甚少留意家庭因素的影響力。事實上，一個人對於婚姻的整體感受，不是僅憑他和配偶之間的關係來衡量的，婚姻代表的不只是婚姻，必須把它放在整個社會文化結構之下來觀察，才能夠真正了解婚姻的社會定位。尤其，中國式的婚姻觀重視家庭與親屬關係，個人對於婚姻的主觀感受是無法脫離家庭系統而獨立的。本文運用「台灣地區社會變遷基本調查計劃」第四期第二次調查「社會問題組問卷」的資料，分析1677 位已婚民眾的婚姻滿意度，藉以檢視台灣民眾的婚姻感受如何受到婚姻以外的家庭因素的影響。 資料分析結果發現，高達九成二的受訪者對自己的婚姻給予正面的評估。不論是對婚姻滿意與否、或是對婚姻滿意程度的高低之別，配偶同住與配偶所持之衝突因應策略，果然是影響婚姻主觀評估之重要因素。另一方面，配偶之外的家人互動與社區互動關係亦會顯著影響婚姻滿意的感受，且納入家庭因素的考量之後，模型解釋力顯著的提升。這表示婚姻品質的主觀感受，除了夫妻或配偶間之關係有直接影響外，家庭與社會支持方面的因素的確必須重視。

Since 1970, family sociologists and marriage psychologists have attempted to investigate the factors affecting marital satisfaction. Their analyses, however, focused on the impacts of individual, spousal and conjugal interactional properties but paid less attention to the influence of familial systems. In this paper, we emphasize that Chinese marriage value is familial-oriented, and then conceptualize marital satisfaction as an individual subjective assessment of his/her marital and familial situation. Data drawn from the 2001 Taiwan Social Change Survey are employed to examine how conjugal as well as familial factors affect marital satisfaction. On the basis of reports of 1677 married Taiwanese, 92% of the respondents reported they were satisfied with their marriage. The results of logistic regression analyses indicate that marital satisfaction is associated with cohabitation and supportive resolution toward conjugal conflicts. As hypothesized, familial factors such as family and community support systems have positive impacts on marital satisfaction.