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Marital Quality over the Marital Career: Alternative Explanations

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1986
In a cross-sectional study of 196 wives, Anderson, Russell, and Schumm (1983) were able to explain a little more than 8% of variance in marital satisfaction as a function of family life-cycle categories. The same sample is reanalyzed here from the perspective of integrating the combined effects of preschool children, employment, social class, and ...
Walter R. Schumm, Margaret A. Bugaighis
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Gender Ideologies, Marital Roles, and Marital Quality in Taiwan

Journal of Family Issues, 2004
This study uses the multidimensional measures included in the 1996 Taiwan Social Change Survey to examine the effects of gender ideologies and marital role sharing on marital quality among married Taiwanese men and women as reporting spouses. The authors’ quantitative analyses indicate that (a) there is little direct relationship between gender ...
Xiaohe Xu, Shu-Chuan Lai
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Predicting Marital Quality with Narrative Assessments of Marital Experience

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1993
Etude sur le mariage et la qualite des relations conjugales a partir de l'analyse longitudinale des premieres annees de mariage des couples. L'etude montre que la facon dont les couples construisent leur realite maritale prefigure leur bien-etre marital.
Joseph Veroff, Lynne Sutherland, Letha A. Chadiha, Robert M. Ortega   +3 more
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Personality traits versus the quality of the marital relationship as the determinant of marital sexuality

Archives of Sexual Behavior, 1983
The question of whether personality traits or the relationship among marital partners is more significant for the importance of sexuality and satisfaction in sexual interaction was examined. It was demonstrated that only interaction variables were significant, satisfying sexual relationships existing only in happy marriages.
J, Schenk, H, Pfrang, A, Rausche
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Match Quality, New Information, and Marital Dissolution

Journal of Labor Economics, 1997
"This article investigates the role of surprises in marital dissolution [in the United States]. Surprises consists of changes in the predicted earning capacity of either spouse. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972 is used.
Weiss, Yoram, Willis, Robert J
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A Eudaimonic Theory of Marital Quality

Journal of Family Theory & Review, 2010
This article explores a eudaimonic approach (a focus on human flourishing) for its value in enriching marital quality theory. Spouses' marital satisfaction is reinterpreted as the match between their actual marriage and their marital goals. Goal pursuit is proposed as a primary area of assessment and research in marital quality. Two dimensions of goal
Blaine J. Fowers, Meghan B. Owenz
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Dimensions of Marital Quality and Retirement

Journal of Family Issues, 2004
This study examines whether the meaning of marital conflict and marital solidarity are affected by the transition to retirement, whether the retirement transition alters stability and variability of, and cross-spouse influences on, marital quality, and whether retirement influences latent means of marital quality.
Adam Davey, Maximiliane E. Szinovacz
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Sanctification, Stress, and Marital Quality

Family Relations, 2011
This article contributes to recent work investigating the role of religious sanctification, that is, the process via which one's spouse or marital relationship is perceived as having divine character or sacred significance. We outline a series of theoretical arguments linking marital sanctification with specific aspects of marital quality.
Christopher G. Ellison, Andrea K. Henderson, Norval D. Glenn, Kristine E. Harkrider   +3 more
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Marital adjustment and quality of life in fibromyalgia.

Families, Systems, & Health
Fibromyalgia is a disease that impacts the daily lives of patients and their partners with an impact on quality of life (QoL) and marital adjustment. The purpose of this study was to analyze the relationship among sociodemographic, clinical, and psychological variables on QoL and marital adjustment.This cross-sectional study included patients (n = 76 ...
M. Graça Pereira, Ana Cristina Bernardo, Mafalda Silva, Ana C. Almeida   +3 more
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Marital Quality and Marital Stability: A Reply

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1981
Graham B. Spanier, Robert A. Lewis
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