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Dew, Jeffrey; Britt, Sonya; Huston, Sandra – Family Relations, 2012
Using longitudinal data from the National Survey of Families and Households and both wife- and husband-reported data (N = 4,574 couples), this study examined how financial well-being, financial disagreements, and perceptions of financial inequity were associated with the likelihood of divorce. When financial disagreements were in the model,…
Descriptors: Well Being, Divorce, Systems Approach, Marital Satisfaction
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Dew, Jeffrey – Family Relations, 2008
Although recently married couples report debt as one of their top concerns, research has not measured how debt changes relate to changes in their marital satisfaction. Further, the mechanisms that link debt and marital satisfaction are unknown. Findings using the National Survey of Families and Households (N = 1,078 couples) demonstrated that…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Debt (Financial), Correlation, Predictor Variables
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Thomas, Sandra; And Others – Family Relations, 1984
Identified themes differentiating high-quality and low-quality marriages in 34 professional dual-career couples. Themes related to socioeconomic adequacy, wife's job satisfaction, husband's approval of wife's employment, optimal household composition, community embeddedness, positive regard for spouse, emotional gratification, effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Marital Satisfaction, Predictor Variables
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Larson, Jeffry H.; Holman, Thomas B. – Family Relations, 1994
Reviews research on premarital factors associated with later marital quality and stability in first marriages. Three major categories of factors are described, including background and context, individual traits and behaviors, and couple interactional processes. Both cross-sectional and longitudinal research are summarized. Recommendations for…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction, Marital Status, Marriage
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Hill, Elizabeth A.; Dorfman, Lorraine T. – Family Relations, 1982
Conducted (N=36) interviews with homemakers whose husbands recently retired from a number of occupations. Investigated positive and negative aspects of retirement and a range of variables associated with life satisfaction and three domains of satisfaction. Found the most consistent correlate of wife's satisfaction was husband's participation in…
Descriptors: Attitudes, Family Life, Homemakers, Interpersonal Relationship
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Wilson, Stephan M.; Peterson, Gary W. – Family Relations, 1988
Examined possible predictors of life satisfaction among 322 low-income young adults from rural Appalachia. Both objective and subjective conditions of life were predictors of life satisfaction: financial resources, self-esteem, and proximity to childhood home were positive predictors; frustrations about limited job opportunities and community size…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Low Income Groups, Predictor Variables, Rural Population
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Schneewind, Klaus A.; Gerhard, Anna-Katharina – Family Relations, 2002
Explores the relationship between couples' stable personality variables associated with interpersonal competencies and marital satisfaction with conflict resolution style as the mediating factor. Results indicate strong mediational effects across time. The relationship personality variables correspond closely with conflict resolution styles, which…
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Interpersonal Competence, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage
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Essex, Elizabeth Lehr; Hong, Jinkuk – Family Relations, 2005
Based on a sample of 126 families, this study investigated how division of household labor is related to marital satisfaction and caregiving burden among older married parents caring for adult children with intellectual disabilities. For mothers, greater spousal participation in household work and satisfaction with the division of labor were…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Marital Satisfaction, Labor, Caregivers
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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
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Kramer, Betty J. – Family Relations, 1993
Investigated interpersonal vulnerability variables (marital history and quality of relationship prior to onset of Alzheimer's disease), caregiver resources, and appraisals of stressors as predictors of positive and negative outcomes among 72 wife caregivers. All variables were significant predictors of depression and quality of life even after…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Depression (Psychology), Family Caregivers, Females
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Kramer, Betty J. – Family Relations, 1993
Used stress and coping model to study predictors of individual differences in caregiver depression and satisfaction among 72 wife caregivers of husbands with Alzheimer's disease. Specifically examined relationship-focused caregiver coping strategies. Findings support need for expansion of conceptualization of caregiver coping to include…
Descriptors: Alzheimers Disease, Coping, Depression (Psychology), Family Caregivers
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Risman, Barbara J. – Family Relations, 1986
Surveyed 141 single fathers about their experience as homemakers, the nature of their father/child relationship, and overall role satisfaction. Most men felt comfortable and competent as single parents, regardless of the reason for custody or their financial status. Both economic status and reason for custody influenced the father/child…
Descriptors: Child Custody, Fathers, Life Satisfaction, One Parent Family