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Yüksel, Müge; Yildirim Kurtulus, Hacer; Uzun, Gülgün – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2023
It is important to examine women's experiences in the infertility process, as being a woman is perceived as a concept that overlaps with motherhood, and the woman herself is exposed to physical pain during the treatment. In this research, which was carried out with a phenomenological pattern, one of the qualitative methods, the experiences of…
Descriptors: Females, Pregnancy, Phenomenology, Marriage
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Sailor, Joanni L. – Qualitative Report, 2013
Romantic love is considered a necessary ingredient in marriage. In this study, the experience of falling out of romantic love with one's spouse was examined. Eight individuals who had fallen out of romantic love with their spouse were interviewed. By using Moustakas' Transcendental Phenomenological method, several themes emerged which provided a…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Qualitative Research, Intimacy, Marriage
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Wong, Lai Cheung; Chu, Amanda M. Y.; Chan, Cecilia L. W. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2014
Objective: Because forgiveness is an important aspect of studies in marital relationships, there is a need for a culturally relevant measure of forgiveness for Chinese couples. This study aims to validate the Transgression-related Interpersonal Motivations Inventory in marital relationships within a Chinese context (C-TRIM). Method: Data were…
Descriptors: Marriage, Foreign Countries, Questionnaires, Asians
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Kamp Dush, Claire M.; Taylor, Miles G. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Group Membership, Conflict, Marriage
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Bookwala, Jamila – Developmental Psychology, 2014
This study used longitudinal data to examine the effects of spousal illness on depressive symptoms among middle-aged and older married individuals and the extent to which the adverse effects of illness in a spouse were mitigated by 2 psychological resources, mastery and self-esteem. Using 1,704 married participants who were 51 years of age on…
Descriptors: Spouses, Depression (Psychology), Older Adults, Adults
Maddox, Moshae – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the perceptions and provide insight into meanings and factors that contribute to healthy committed marriages among African American heterosexual married couples. This study explored the experiences of couples who had been married for 25 years and longer. This qualitative study was conducted using a…
Descriptors: Sexual Orientation, Marriage, African Americans, African American Attitudes
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Canel, Azize Nilgun – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
In this study, the process of developing the Marital Satisfaction Scale (MSS) aiming to support studies in the field of marital satisfaction and to obtain information about couples in a short time through psychological counseling is discussed. The scale including 101 yes-no items aiming to reveal couples' opinions about their marriages was…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Marital Satisfaction, Parents, Child Rearing
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Agadjanian, Victor; Arnaldo, Carlos; Cau, Boaventura – Social Forces, 2011
The study employs survey data from rural Mozambique to examine how men's labor migration affects their non-migrating wives' perceptions of HIV/AIDS risks. Using a conceptual framework centered on tradeoffs between economic security and health risks that men's migration entails for their left-behind wives, it compares women married to migrants and…
Descriptors: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS), Spouses, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Labor
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Treas, Judith; van der Lippe, Tanja; Tai, Tsui-o Chloe – Social Forces, 2011
A long-standing debate questions whether homemakers or working wives are happier. Drawing on cross-national data for 28 countries, this research uses multi-level models to provide fresh evidence on this controversy. All things considered, homemakers are slightly happier than wives who work fulltime, but they have no advantage over part-time…
Descriptors: Labor Force Nonparticipants, Spouses, Marital Status, Homemakers
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Paleari, F. Giorgia; Regalia, Camillo; Fincham, Frank D. – Psychological Assessment, 2009
Three studies involving 328 married couples were conducted to validate the Marital Offence-Specific Forgiveness Scale, a new measure assessing offence-specific forgiveness for marital transgressions. The studies examined the dimensionality; internal consistency; and discriminant, concurrent, and predictive validity of the new measure. The final…
Descriptors: Marriage, Spouses, Validity, Reliability
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Wienke, Chris; Hill, Gretchen J. – Journal of Family Issues, 2009
Prior research indicates that the married enjoy higher levels of well-being than the unmarried, including unmarried cohabiters. Yet, comparisons of married and unmarried persons routinely exclude partnered gays and lesbians. Using a large probability sample, this study assessed how the well-being of partnered gays and lesbians (282) compares with…
Descriptors: Well Being, Correlation, Marriage, Spouses
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Kurdek, Lawrence A. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2005
The purpose of this study is to assess differences between husbands and wives (N= 526 couples at the first assessment) on (a) growth curves over the first 4 years of marriage for psychological distress, marriage-specific appraisals, spousal interactions, social support, and marital satisfaction; (b) the strength of intraspouse links and…
Descriptors: Spouses, Marriage, Marital Satisfaction, Gender Differences
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Schoen, Robert; Rogers, Stacy J.; Amato, Paul R. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
The authors investigate the direction of the relationship between marital happiness and wives' full-time employment using the 1987 to 1988 and 1992 to 1994 waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. First, the authors predict change in wives' employment between the two waves using marital happiness and other Time 1 characteristics.…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Spouses, Employment Level, Marital Satisfaction
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Choi, Heejeong; Marks, Nadine F. – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
Guided by a life course perspective, this study investigated whether the psychological consequences of transitioning into a caregiver role for a biological parent, parent-in-law, spouse, other kin, or nonkin among married adults might be moderated by marital role quality. Using longitudinal data from a national sample of 1,842 married adults aged…
Descriptors: Well Being, Marital Instability, Caregiver Role, Caregivers
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Sanford, Keith – Psychological Assessment, 2007
The Couples Emotion Rating Form assesses 3 types of negative emotion that are salient during times of relationship conflict. Hard emotion includes feeling angry and aggravated, soft emotion includes feeling hurt and sad, and flat emotion includes feeling bored and indifferent. In Study 1, scales measuring hard and soft emotion were validated by…
Descriptors: Conflict, Factor Structure, Questionnaires, Parent Child Relationship
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