These happy golden years? The role of retirement in marital quality.

2016 ◽  
pp. 157-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Rauer ◽  
Jakob F. Jensen
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality

Childhood Abuse and Marital Quality: The Role of Psychological Distress

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelly K. Espenschade ◽  
Kimberly Funk ◽  
Amanda Kras ◽  
David Dilillo ◽  
Andrea Perry
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Distress ◽  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Marital Quality

Aggressiveness and Perceived Marital Quality: The Moderating Role of a Family-Supportive Work Climate

2010 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oscar A. Cabrera ◽  
Paul D. Bliese ◽  
Charles W. Hoge ◽  
Carl A. Castro ◽  
Stephen C. Messer
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Work Climate ◽  
Moderating Role

Reconsideration of the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test: Is it Still Relevant for the 1990S?

1997 ◽  
Vol 81 (2) ◽  
pp. 419-434 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark H. Freeston ◽  
Michel Pléchaty
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Marital Adjustment ◽  
Rapid Assessment ◽  
Assessment Measure ◽  
Cut Score ◽  
Continued Use ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Adjustment Test ◽  
Adequate Reliability

The Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test has been in use for over thirty years despite the development of other scales. The role of the test is discussed in terms of theoretical and practical concerns in the measurement of marital satisfaction. Major criticisms are briefly reviewed and empirical questions are identified. These questions are addressed using archival data on four samples totalling 281 couples. The test possesses adequate reliability and good criterion-related validity. A single factor was identified for both men and women. Ten items discriminated in all analyses. Minor changes in the scoring procedure were suggested for two items in response to some criticisms. These changes did not affect the psychometric properties. The alternative scoring system proposed by Hunt was also evaluated and a cut-score was identified. Continued use of the test is justified in general contexts where the broadly based definition of adjustment is appropriate. More comprehensive measures of adjustment and satisfaction and simpler measures of marital quality still leave a role for this 15-item rapid assessment measure of marital adjustment.

Role of marital quality in toddler development.

1984 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 504-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy A. Goldberg ◽  
M. Ann Easterbrooks
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Toddler Development

scholarly journals Relationship Quality Among Cohabiting Versus Married Couples

2015 ◽  
Vol 38 (12) ◽  
pp. 1730-1753 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan L. Brown ◽  
Wendy D. Manning ◽  
Krista K. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Diffusion Theory ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Nationally Representative ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Union Type ◽  
The Relationship

Using data from the nationally representative 2010 Married and Cohabiting Couples Survey of different-sex cohabiting and married couples, we compared the relationship quality of today’s cohabitors and marrieds. Consistent with diffusion theory and recent conceptual work on the deinstitutionalization of marriage, we found that the relationship between union type and relationship quality is now bifurcated with direct marrieds reporting the highest relationship quality and cohabitors without marriage plans reporting the lowest marital quality. In the middle were the two largest groups: marrieds who premaritally cohabited and cohabitors with plans to marry. These two groups did not differ in terms of relationship quality. This study adds to the growing literature indicating that the role of cohabitation in the family life course is changing in the contemporary context.

Women's Economic Independence and the Probability of Divorce

2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (7) ◽  
pp. 906-943 ◽  
Author(s):  
LIANA C. SAYER ◽  
SUZANNE M. BIANCHI
Keyword(s):  
Marital Quality ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Gender Ideology ◽  
Marital Dissolution ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Economic Independence ◽  
Percentage Contribution ◽  
Weak Support ◽  
Marital Commitment

In this article, we ask the question: Does a wife's economic independence destabilize marriage and heighten the risk of divorce? Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Families and Households, we find only weak support for the economic independence thesis. There is an initial positive association between a wife's percentage contribution to family income and divorce, but the relation is reduced to nonsignificance as soon as variables measuring gender ideology are introduced into the model. Our analysis indicates that measures of marital commitment and satisfaction are better predictors of marital dissolution than measures of economic independence. This strongly suggests that the independence effect found in prior research, which did not include controls for marital quality, may have been measuring the role of wives' economic independence in exiting bad marriages, not in exiting all marriages.

The Mediating Role of Religiousness in the Relationship between the Attachment Style and Marital Quality

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatma Gül Cirhinlioğlu ◽  
Zafer Cirhinlioğlu ◽  
Yeliz Kindap Tepe
Keyword(s):  
Attachment Style ◽  
Marital Quality ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
The Relationship
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