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Understanding Marriage: Unit 5. Parent Education Workbook for Mainstreamed Students. Part I: Relationships. Contemporary Parenting Choices. Module 4.
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Dept. of Home Economics Education. – 1985
The 2-part student workbook for mainstreamed learning and mentally disabled high school students contains 12 units intended to provide supplementary instruction in the Contemporary Parenting Choices Curriculum in the home economics class. This unit, the fifth in the Relationships part of the workbook, focuses on understanding marriage and includes…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Learning Disabilities, Mainstreaming, Marital Satisfaction
"Overture" to a Wedding.
Govako, Boris Ivanovich – Soviet Education, 1990
Discusses students' decisions to marry. Breaks down students' reasons for marriage into basic considerations: emotional, social-psychological, moral-ethical, and materialistic. Relates marital harmony to motives of the couple in marrying and circumstances promoting the marriage. Concludes that marriage should be preceded by an appropriate length…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Marital Satisfaction
Are College Marriage Textbooks Teaching Students the Premarital Predictors of Marital Quality
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Larson, Jeffry H.; Hickman, Rachel – Family Relations, 2004
We evaluated 10 college marriage textbooks for their efficacy in teaching the premarital predictors of marital quality identified in the literature. They also were evaluated on their use of an integrative teaching approach that personalizes the content for readers and assists readers in learning, remembering, and using the information in their own…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Teaching Methods, Marriage, Marital Satisfaction
Wellness, Perceived Stress, Mattering, and Marital Satisfaction among Medical Residents and Their Spouses: Implications for Education and Counseling
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Powers, Anne S.; Myers, Jane E.; Tingle, Lynne R.; Powers, John C. – Family Journal Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2004
Numerous studies document that medical education is demanding and stressful, yet few studies have examined the effects of medical training on spouses and medical marriages. Eighty-three individuals (42 couples) living in medical marriages completed questionnaires measuring marital satisfaction, perceived stress, general mattering, and wellness.…
Descriptors: Spouses, Marriage Counseling, Marriage, Counselor Training
A Partial Portrait.
Govako, Boris Ivanovich – Soviet Education, 1990
Focuses on survey of characteristics of Soviet student family as specific social phenomenon with socially homogeneous character. Urges early marriage, larger families, and intercultural marriage. Concludes that marital problems are based on premarital notions that fail to correspond with reality. Finds that motives for marriage, character of…
Descriptors: Family (Sociological Unit), Family Characteristics, Family Life, Family Problems
When a Relationship Seems Rocky. Coping with Crisis.
Coleman, Trudy; And Others – 1985
This instructional packet is one of a series of five modules that emphasize a systematic decision-making model for common problematic situations. The steps of the model are identifying the problem, gathering information, developing and assessing alternatives, implementing a solution, and evaluating and modifying the solution. Aimed at adult basic…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Community Resources