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Perceptual accuracy as a variable in marital adjustment

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 1976
This study investigated the ability of maritally-adjusted couples, couples attaining a divorce, and couples in counseling to predict the rewarding effects of their behavior on their spouse. Twenty-six couples, five obtaining a divorce, nine in counseling, and twelve adjusted couples completed a Marital Interaction Questionnaire in which they rated how ...
L, Christensen, L, Wallace
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Type A, marital adjustment, and life stress

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1986
Prior research has indicated that both the Type A behavior pattern and recent life stress may increase risk for heart disease and has suggested that social (e.g., marital) support may (a) be influenced by Type A and (b) serve as a moderating influence in the stress-illness relationship. To assess relationships among these variables, both members of 101
N T, Blaney, P, Brown, P H, Blaney
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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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Marital adjustment and behaviour problems in children

Irish Journal of Medical Science, 1989
Previous research has suggested links between marital unhappiness and behaviour problems in children. A survey was carried out in a community based Child Psychiatric clinic in Ireland to investigate these links. Methods used involved self report questionnaires administered to mothers of forty-eight children attending the clinic.
C, Lucey, M, Fitzgerald
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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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Sex Differences in Marital and Social Adjustment

The Journal of Social Psychology, 1998
A sample of 67 married Japanese men and 79 married Japanese women, ranging in age from 25 through 85 years, were interviewed to clarify the relationship between marital adjustment and social adjustment. For the whole sample, the total score of the Short Marital Adjustment Test (SMAT; Locke & Wallace, 1959) and its subcategories, dyadic consensus and ...
T, Kitamura, M, Aoki, M, Fujino, C, Ura, M, Watanabe, K, Watanabe, S, Fujihara   +6 more
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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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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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Adolescent Adjustment to Perceived Marital Conflict

Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1998
The cognitive-contextual framework of Grych and Fincham (1990) and the emotional-security framework of Davies and Cummings (1994) were used to explore both the direct and indirect pathways between marital conflict and adolescent adjustment. Two hundred and three non-clinic adolescents (114 females and 89 males) from intact families completed self ...
Turner, Cynthia M., Barren, Paula M.
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