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Marital Adjustment and the Employed Wife

American Journal of Sociology, 1949
No significant difference between the marital adjustment of wives who are engaged in full-time employment and that of those who are engaged in full-time homemaking was found in this study. Nor was a difference found in the marital adjustment of the husbands of the two groups of wives.
H J, LOCKE, M, MACKEPRANG
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Sensation Seeking and Marital Adjustment

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1989
Seventy-two married couples completed Zuckerman's Sensation Seeking Scale, Form V, and the Kimmel and VanderVeen modification of the Locke Marital Adjustment Questionnaire. Marital adjustment was not related to the difference between husbands' and wives' sensation-seeking scores, but a negative relationship was found between sensation seeking and ...
K J, Gibson, R E, Franken, G L, Rowland
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Childlessness and Marital Adjustment

Australian Journal of Sex, Marriage and Family, 1984
The 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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Marital Adjustment and Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1990
Fifty obsessive–compulsives were treated by behavioural therapy (self-exposure in vivo and response prevention) either with their partner directly involved in all aspects of treatment or without their partner. The two treatment formats were equally effective.
Emmelkamp, P.M.G., de Haan, E., Hoogduin, C.A.   +2 more
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Factors in Chinese Marital Process: Relationship to Marital Adjustment

Family Process, 1997
This research examined the applicability, in Taiwan Chinese groups, of western approaches to conceptualizing and assessing aspects of marital relations. Chinese translations of American measures of marital adjustment (the Marital Adjustment Test) and marital process (the California Inventory for Family Assessment, mea‐ suring respondents' perceptions ...
M A, Lewinsohn, P D, Werner
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Assertion and Marital Adjustment

Family Relations, 1980
Because it has been speculated that there is a relation between assertiveness and marital adjustment, and because there is scant empirical evidence to support the speculation, two studies were designed to examine the constructs. No relation was found between assertion and marital adjustment for the total group of 187 randomly selected married graduate ...
Robert A. Reath, Fred Piercy, Alan Hovestadt, Marvarene Oliver   +3 more
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Marital power, marital adjustment, and therapy outcome.

Journal of Family Psychology, 1996
This study examined the association of marital power type to (a) marital adjustment and (b) response to behavioral marital therapy. A behavioral measure was used to classify 53 distressed couples into egalitarian, husband-dominant, wife-dominant, or anarchic power patterns.
Bernadette Gray-Little, Donald H. Baucom, Sherry L. Hamby   +2 more
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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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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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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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