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Children and Marital Stability

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1977
This research investigated the relationship between early childbearing and marital instability. A moderate U-shaped relationship between the number of children a woman had at the beginning of an interval and the likelihood that she would experience dissolution during the interval was found.
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Equity, Marital Satisfaction, and Stability

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, 1984
Equity Theory, a social psychological theory concerned with fairness in interpersonal relations, has been shown to be predictivein casual encounters. Is it applicable in intimate relations as well? Newlyweds were asked a series of questions designed to measure the perceived level of equity in their relationship.
Mary K. Utne, Elaine Hatfield, Jane Traupmann, David Greenberger   +3 more
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Personality and compatibility: A prospective analysis of marital stability and marital satisfaction.

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1987
The antecedents of marital stability (divorce or remaining married) and marital satisfaction (within the group that remains married) were investigated with a panel of 300 couples who were followed from their engagements in the 1930s until 1980. Twenty-two of the couples broke their engagements; of the 278 couples who married, 50 got divorced at some ...
E L, Kelly, J J, Conley
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Marital and Family Stability

Abstract Healthy personality characteristics, good mental and physical health during adulthood, future social relationships, prosocial values, and risk of delinquency/crime are heavily influenced by the family environment. This chapter opens with a discussion of increasing divorce rates, and an examination of predictors of divorce ...
Harold G. Koenig, Tyler J. VanderWeele, John R. Peteet   +2 more
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Marital stability among physicians.

California medicine, 1972
Analysis of 57,514 initial complaints for divorce, separate maintenance, and annulment filed in California during the first six months of 1968 reveals that physicians are considerably less prone to marital failure than men of comparable age in the general population. Furthermore, when compared to professionals in general, doctors also appear less prone
K D, Rose, I, Rosow
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Childlessness and Marital Stability in Remarriages

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1984
The study seeks to increase understanding of variation in the patterning of life-course events and in the structure of families in remarriage by examining the outcomes of these new marriages for us women. It analyzes the probabilities and the timing of having a birth in a 2nd marriage or of ending the marriage without having a child among women still ...
Janet D. Griffith, Helen P. Koo, C. M. Suchindran   +2 more
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Economic Factors and Marital Stability

American Sociological Review, 1951
ion. * Part of a paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Society held in Denver, Sept. 7-9, 1950. That paper was a substantive report on a research described in William J. Goode, "Some Problems in Postdivorce Adjustment,." American Sociological Review, 14 (1949), 394-401. Thanks are due to Melvin Tumin of Princeton University
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Wedding Day Perceptions as Related to Marital Stability and Marital Satisfaction

2023
This study examined whether a person's perception of his or her wedding day was related to marital stability, and self-reported marital satisfaction. Participants were recruited in two different ways: (a) from psychology courses at Fort Hays State University, and (b) from the Hays community.
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Locus of Control and Marital Stability:

Journal of Divorce, 1981
This study investigated the relationship between locus of control and marital stability of young men. A factor analysis of the locus of control measures found three factors: a leadership scale, a personal scale and a fate scale. The study focused on young men between the ages of 16-25 who were married.
John A. Constantine, Stephen J. Bahr
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Money, Work, and Marital Stability

American Sociological Review, 2016
Despite a large literature investigating how spouses’ earnings and division of labor relate to their risk of divorce, findings remain mixed and conclusions elusive. Core unresolved questions are (1) whether marital stability is primarily associated with the economic gains to marriage or with the gendered lens through which spouses’ earnings and ...
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