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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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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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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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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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Personality and Marital Adjustment

Psychological Reports, 1996
For 99 married couples, marital adjustment was related to elevated scores on extraversion and openness to experience on a measure of the five-factor personality model.
Stephanie Nemechek, Kenneth R. Olson
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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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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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