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Associations Between Anxiety and Marital Adjustment

The Journal of Psychology, 2002
Cognitive-behavioral theories of marital functioning and contextual models of close relationships highlight the importance of proximal affect states such as anxiety in couple functioning. Despite these assertions, research examining the role of state anxiety is lacking in the literature on intimate relationships.
Crystal, Dehle, Robert L, Weiss
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Childlessness and Marital Adjustment

Australian Journal of Sex, Marriage and Family, 1984
SynopsisThe public perception is that marriages without children are less happy and less satisfactory. To put this assumption to empirical test, subscale and total scores on the Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Scale were compared for couples who were early deciders of voluntary childlessness, couples voluntarily childless through postponement, and parents ...
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Transcendental Meditation Program and Marital Adjustment

Psychological Reports, 1982
17 married women who had received instruction in the Transcendental Meditation program were compared to 17 controls (matched for length of marriage, age, and neighborhood) on Locke's Marital Adjustment Inventory. Interviewees did not know the study was related to meditation or that they were contacted because they were meditators.
E N, Aron, A, Aron
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Techniques of Marital Adjustment

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1932
Among more sophisticated and scientific students of the family there is at times a tendency to ignore the complexity of family relations, the circularity and roundaboutness in the so-called causal relationships obtaining among social phenomena, and the necessity of understanding in order to control.
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Childlessness and Marital Adjustment

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1979
A number of researchers have found that childless individuals report a higher level of marital adjustment/satisfaction than do people with children. Unfortunately, the category "childless" in these studies included voluntarily and involuntarily childless individuals as well as people who were simply postponing childbearing.
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Factors in Marital Adjustment

American Journal of Sociology, 1937
A comparison was made of 104 married couples rated by friends as well adjusted and 70 couples rated by friends as proorly adjusted. Little or no relationship was found between marital adjustment and factors such as family authority patterns of childhood, sex favoritism on the part of parents, sibling position, nativity of parents, and occupation of ...
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Romanticism and Marital Adjustment

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1972
This article explores the relationship between romanticism and marital adjustment. Two hypotheses reflecting two schools of thought relating to the relationship are presented. One suggests romanticism as functional in society, the other as dysfunctional.
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Alienation and Marital Adjustment

The Sociological Quarterly, 1968
IN 1953 NISBET stated: "At the present time, in all the social sciences, the various synonyms of alienation have a foremost place in studies of human relations. Investigations of the 'unattached,' the 'marginal,' the 'obsessive,' the 'normless,' and the 'isolated individual' all testify to the central place occupied by the hypothesis of alienation in ...
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Marital Conflict, Divorce, and Children's Adjustment

Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 1998
This article summarizes current research on children's adjustment after separation and divorce, and then focuses on the contributions of marital conflict, marital violence, and hostile family environments to children's adjustment during marriage and after divorce.
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Dispositional Optimism and Marital Adjustment

Contemporary Family Therapy, 2013
Research showing the distinct influence of positive attributes on relationships has been growing. This study examined the impact of husbands’ and wives’ dispositional optimism on their own and partner’s relationship satisfaction, consensus, and cohesion using data from the National Survey of Families and Households.
Agnes Machaty Terveer, Nathan D. Wood
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