Hypothetically, earlier marriages are more likely to dissolve, but reasons for this are as yet unclear. A longitudinal analysis of a cohort of 259 couples revealed that those who married later, had more education, and did not experience unemployment, were more likely to remain in a stable marriage. (KH)

Describes the use of a penny game as a counseling technique to interrupt an unwanted cycle of behavior between spouses. The game can be explained in terms of both paradox and power and is useful with several marriage counseling techniques which teach more appropriate verbal behavior. (JAC)

Surveyed 704 couples to test a model in which role enactment and role consensus were intervening variables between age at marriage and marital satisfaction. Findings showed age at marriage was not significant, but quality of spouse role enactment and role consensus had a strong, positive association with marital satisfaction. (JAC)

The objective of this paper is to investigate the consequences of early, on time, and late marriage in the lives of white women who are members of an historically significant cohort (birthdates 1925-29) in the 1970 National Fertility Study. (Author)

Examines these distinct registral features of matrimonial newspaper advertisements in English in India: incongruity, deletion of preposition, miscellaneous deletions, two-word sentence, new abbreviations, registral confusion, stylistic variation. (RM)

The concept that joint family households will prove a barrier to the emergence of conjugal role patterns was tested for a sample in Dharwar, India. It was found that living with close kin was not highly correlated with a major increase in husband and wife avoiding one another. Urbanization and education, however, both seem to lead to changes in…

Investigates the influence on ego's attitudes toward his familial roles of husband and father and his nonfamilial role of student by the validation of those roles by his significant others. (Author)

This paper is an attempt to help professionals to use technical research literature. Three different methods of using research are identified and the advantages and limitations of each are discussed. Professionals frequently try to apply research directly to practical situations but the most useful method is to apply research indirectly by going…

In the context of decision making, swinging can be viewed as a male institution, and confirmation of the advent of a sexual revoluation'' and of the abolution of the double standard should be reconsidered. (Author)

This paper uses Billingsley's typology to examine the association between family structures and functions. It is concluded that modifications of the typology would expand its utility, that detailed information about family structure reduces the chance of distortion and contributes to greater understanding, and that Billingsley overemphasized the…

Marital counseling as a profession, and counselors, individually, are deemed to be in need of a sound set of substantial standards and values, with philosophical, psychological and sociological commitments. This argument for values in counseling stresses the psychological factors of womanliness and manliness in contemporary living. (Author)

A pilot study of 172 married couples reveals significant contrasts in patterns and degrees of communication and the efficacy of a measuring device for marital communication. Findings are relevant for understanding components of healthy communication in marital interaction. (Author)