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Retirement and Marital Satisfaction

Journal of Gerontology, 1989
This study examined the effects of retirement status, length of retirement, and spouse's retirement status on marital satisfaction. Although some previous research and theory suggest that retirement has salutary effects on the quality of marriage, we find no such pattern here.
G R, Lee, C L, Shehan
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Neuroticism and marital satisfaction

Behaviour Research and Therapy, 1978
Abstract Thirty happily married and thirty unhappily married couples were examined by means of the MPI questionnaire to test the hypothesis that emotional instability impaired satisfaction in marriage. Unhappily married partners were very significantly higher on neuroticism than happily married partners, but there were no differences in extraversion ...
Z, Zaleski, M, Galkowska
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Marital Self-Disclosure and Marital Satisfaction

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
This study examined relationships between self-disclosure and marital satisfaction. On selfreport measures, husbands' disclosure to wives was positively related to, and predictive of, husbands' marital satisfaction; wives' disclosure to husbands was a positive predictor of husbands' marital satisfaction; wives' disclosure to husbands was positively ...
Jeffrey E. Hansen, W. John Schuldt
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Do Demographics Affect Marital Satisfaction?

Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy, 2007
This study examined the effects of age, education, number of children, employment status, and length of marriage on marital satisfaction. Seven hundred and eighty-seven nonrandomly selected married adults from the Flanders region in Belgium completed the Maudsley Marital Questionnaire (MMQ) (Arrindell, Boelens, & Lambert, 1983a).
Orathinkal, Jose, Vansteenwegen, Alfons
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Marital Satisfaction, Adulthood

2003
Promotion of marital satisfaction requires a clear understanding of relationship processes and outcomes as well as prevention and intervention strategies. Relationships are assessed by instruments focused on subjective satisfaction or perceived quality.
Benjamin Silliman, Walter Schumm, Robyn Parker, Michele Simons   +3 more
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Dream Reports and Marital Satisfaction

Psychological Reports, 2005
Dream reports of 29 married or cohabiting women, all from a graduate program in marital counseling, were given the KJP Dream Inventory and Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Significant positive correlations were found between overall relationship quality as measured by the total Dyadic Adjustment Scale scores with self-reported frequencies of nightmares (.54),
Jerry, Kroth, Brad, Roeder, Gerald, Gonzales, Kim, Tran, Kevin, Orzech   +4 more
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Marital status, marital satisfaction, and body image dissatisfaction

International Journal of Eating Disorders, 1999
This study examined whether married individuals have comparable body image disturbance to nonmarried individuals and whether the quality of a marital relationship is significantly related to body image disturbance in a sample of dieters.Measures of marital status, marital satisfaction, and body dissatisfaction were administered to a sample of 16,377 ...
M A, Friedman, A E, Dixon, K D, Brownell, M A, Whisman, D E, Wilfley   +4 more
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Marital Satisfaction During Retirement

The Family Journal, 2020
Marriage/commitment and retirement are two common experiences in an adult’s life. Marital satisfaction and retirement have been researched in multiple disciplines. The relationship between these two constructs has not been as widely researched.
Marissa A. Fye, Christine Tina Chasek, Grace A. Mims, Jacob Sandman, Alex Hinrichsen   +4 more
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Marital Satisfaction and Marital Stability*

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1977
This exploration of the relationship between marital satisfaction and marital stability utilizes the social‐psychological schema of Thibaut and Kelley (1959). Marital satisfaction is viewed as a function of the comparison between one's marital expectations and one's marital outcome.
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Childlessness and Marital Satisfaction

Journal of Family Issues, 1982
Utilizing a stratified random sample of respondents married after the age of 21, this article estimates models of marital satisfaction for theoretically relevant groups of women—voluntarily childless wives, undecided wives, postponing wives, and mothers.
K A, Polonko, J, Scanzoni, J D, Teachman
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