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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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Social Competence and Marital Adjustment

Home Economics Research Journal, 1980
The argument is made that social competence would be related to marital adjustment. Data were collected on a community sample of 44 men and 39 women. Marital adjustment was related to the individual's self‐perceived social competence. In general, a manipulative inter personal orientation was negatively related to marital adjustment for females, but ...
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Marital Interaction and Posthospital Adjustment

Social Casework, 1972
A study is aimed at determining what kinds of frustrations constitute the greatest threat to the adaptation of wives who are former patients
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Marital Sex Role Incongruence and Marital Adjustment

Journal of Family Issues, 1989
ROBERT A. CALDWELL, JASON T. LI
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