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Relations Among Risk, Religiosity, and Marital Commitment

Journal of Couple & Relationship Therapy, 2013
In this study, the authors examined the degree to which religiosity was related to marital commitment among married couples living in a highly religious but divorce prone area of the United States. They assessed whether church attendance, faith community support, and general religiosity were related to marital commitment and whether these variables ...
Jonathan R. Olson, H. Wallace Goddard, James P. Marshall   +2 more
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Commitment — An Overlooked Variable in Marital Adjustment?

Sociological Focus, 1974
conviction, the senior author proposed that personal commitment to one's marriage be explored as a possible factor in marital success. A search of 27 leading texts in marriage and the family failed to turn up a single instance of commitment even being mentioned as a potential variable in marital success.
Dwight G. Dean, Graham B. Spanier
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Cohabitation and Marital Stability: Quality or Commitment?

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
The authors analyze the effects of cohabitation on couples perceived marital stability in the United States. "Using data from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households we found that couples who cohabited before marriage reported lower quality marriages lower commitment to the institution of marriage more individualistic views of marriage (
Elizabeth Thomson, Ugo Colella
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Communication Processes in Marital Commitment

1999
Models of commitment and marital quality have traditionally focused on outcomes (measures of marital commitment, stability, and satisfaction) rather than the process (interaction dynamics) that leads to the achievement of marital stability. The purpose of this chapter is to present a model of marital commitment grounded in communication.
Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Daniel J. Weigel   +1 more
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Marital commitment, communication and marital satisfaction: An analysis based on actor–partner interdependence model

International Journal of Psychology, 2018
Marital commitment and satisfaction are known to be closely related, but only limited research has examined the asymmetric interaction patterns between spouses. In this paper, the authors study 400 Chinese couples and find that communication mediates the relationship between marital commitment and marital satisfaction.
Yubo, Hou, Feng, Jiang, Xinrui, Wang
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From Libertinism to Marital Commitment: The Economics of Marital Search with Heterogeneous Agents

Journal of Bioeconomics, 2005
The actual characteristics and desires of candidates or marriage cannot be clearly identified without careful examination (Anderson & Hamori 2000). Accordingly, the classified advertisement system looks like a ‘market or lemons’ (Akerlof 1970), which sharply contrasts with the matchmaking agency system.
Gaelle Le Guirriec, Nicolas Vaillant
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Routine housework and tripartite marital commitment

Personal Relationships, 2011
This study assumes that performing household labor is a method of maintaining the marital relationship and investigates whether higher marital commitment (personal, moral, and structural) is associated with more time spent on housework. Data taken from the second wave of the National Survey of Families and Households on 3,428 paired spouses in the ...
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The conceptualization of marital commitment: An integrative analysis.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1997
Although theoretical statements regarding the conceptualization of marital commitment abound in the literature, no research has attempted to compare these conceptualizations empirically. Six studies involving 1,787 participants explored the conceptual structure of marital commitment through a variety of empirical methods.
Jeffrey M. Adams, Warren H. Jones
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The Social Construction of Marital Commitment

Journal of Marriage and Family, 2009
This paper articulates a theoretical framework for understanding how individuals orient themselves toward marital commitment. Using a life history interview methodology and interpretive framework, it examines the orientations toward marital commitment for a sample of women and men, single and married, between the ages of 28 and 35 (N = 75 ...
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Predicting Sexual Satisfaction of Married Women Based on Marital Commitment, Marital Intimacy, and Coronation Attachment Style

Applied Family Therapy Journal, 2021
Aim: The purpose of this prediction was women's sexual satisfaction based on marital commitment, marital intimacy and attachment styles during the COVID-19. Methods: The statistical population of this study consisted of all married women in Taft city with a number of more than 100 thousand people, of whom 138 people were selected as the research sample
Yasamin Salemi, Azade Abooei, Mohsen Saeidmanesh   +2 more
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