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Manning, Wendy D.; Cohen, Jessica A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
An ongoing question remains for family researchers: Why does a positive association between cohabitation and marital dissolution exist when one of the primary reasons to cohabit is to test relationship compatibility? Drawing on recently collected data from the 2006-2008 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examined whether premarital…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Females, Family Life, Marriage
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Yasuike, Akiko – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
This study examines the ways in which Japanese corporate transnationalism affects husbands' involvement in family life and marital relationships primarily from a perspective of wives. It is based on interviews with 22 Japanese wives and 4 husbands. Studies of Japanese corporate transnationalism treat men as mere supervisors to local workers or…
Descriptors: Spouses, Organizational Culture, Family Life, Parent Child Relationship
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Bornstein, Robert F. – American Psychologist, 2006
Research indicates that economic dependency in women and emotional dependency in men independently contribute to domestic-partner abuse risk and that high levels of emotional dependency in an abused partner may reduce the likelihood that the victimized person will terminate the relationship. An analysis of psychological factors and social forces…
Descriptors: Psychology, Intervention, Family Violence, Family Life
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Hiedemann, Bridget; Suhomlinova, Olga; O'Rand, Angela M. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1998
The risk of separation or divorce late in the marital career is examined from a family development perspective. A hazards framework is used to estimate the effects of women's economic independence, couples' economic status, and family life course factors on the risk of middle-age separation or divorce. (Author/EMK)
Descriptors: Divorce, Family Life, Females, Interpersonal Relationship
Douglas, Jonathan J.; Minton, Henry L. – 1993
Codependency is a relatively new idea, emerging in the late 1970s within the chemical dependency treatment industry. However, the belief that the wife of the alcoholic is, by definition, disturbed, has been influential in varying degrees since the 1930s. The perennial influence of the codependency hypothesis suggests that it is a social…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Life, Females, Feminism
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Gillespie, Dair L. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1971
Sources of marital power are examined and are found to affect the power distribution. Data points to the conclusion that the differences in marital power are not due to individual resources or personal competence of the partners, but to the discrimination against women in the larger society. (Author)
Descriptors: Family Life, Females, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Instability
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Madden, Margaret E.; Janoff-Bulman, Ronnie – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1981
Supported the hypotheses that blaming one's spouse for marital problems is negatively associated with marital satisfaction and perceived personal control over conflicts is positively associated with marital satisfaction. The wife's satisfaction was found to be related to her perception of both husband's and wife's contributions. (Author)
Descriptors: Attribution Theory, Conflict, Family Life, Females
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Bacon, Lloyd – 1973
Patterns of relationships among the variables of pregnancy status at marriage, marital dissolution probabilities, residence and migration status, and race were ascertained. The data source was the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity, a large national probability sample expanded to U.S. population parameters. Relationships among these variables…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Life, Females, Marital Instability
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Lee, Gary R. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1977
Relationships between age at marriage, marital role performance, and marital satisfaction were investigated. Results show the existence of small positive associations between age at marriage and marital satisfaction, and performance. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Age, Divorce, Family Life
McGahey, Richard – USA Today, 1983
The label "underclass" obscures structural economic change and distorts the realities of poverty. It pays insufficient attention to factors for understanding marginal people--labor market shifts, the poor's lack of safety nets, and interactions between these factors and social problems. Specific policies must confront the divergent…
Descriptors: Black Mothers, Blacks, Crime, Definitions
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Henning, Kris; And Others – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1996
A community sample of 617 adult women completed a questionnaire about witnessing interparental physical conflicts before the age of 16. Twenty percent of respondents reported witnessing some type of physical conflict between parents. Mean age when physical conflict was first observed was eight. Women who witnessed parental physical conflict…
Descriptors: Adults, Antisocial Behavior, Battered Women, Conflict
Gilbert, Marvin G. – Journal of College Student Personnel, 1982
Discusses the impact of graduate education on marital and family relations, and finances. Concludes that the graduate school experience produces familial stress and is potentially destructive to family life, especially for married female students, and suggests the need for college student personnel intervention and research. (Author)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Family Life, Females, Financial Problems
Moore, Sylvia F. – 1979
A research study was conducted to measure (1) the extent to which a young woman is financially disadvantaged by the loss of her husband's income, (2) the ways in which she seeks to alleviate this loss, and (3) how successful she is in doing so. Data were collected from 519 young women, both white and black, who experienced a first disruption of…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Divorce, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Institute of Family Studies, Melbourne (Australia). – 1984
Second in a series of seven volumes containing the proceedings of the 1983 Australian Family Research Conference, this publication deals with family law. Papers and authors included are: "Attitudes of Divorced Men and Women to the Family" (Margaret Harrison), "Dispute Resolution in Australian Family Law" (Henry Finlay),…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Conflict Resolution, Divorce, Family Life
Mott, Frank L.; Moore, Sylvia F. – 1978
Using the National Longitudinal Survey of young women aged 14 to 24 in 1968 who were interviewed annually over a five-year period, a study was conducted to examine the relative importance of economic and noneconomic factors in determining the likelihood of marital disruption for young black and white women. A literature review showed that previous…
Descriptors: Age, Demography, Divorce, Economic Factors