In this paper the authors describe a relationship enrichment workshop they have developed and conducted for married and engaged college students. The goal of the workshop is to teach participants some concepts and exercises for improving their mutual communication, including expression of affection and constructive fighting. (Author)

A study of the determinants of women marrying early average and late. Charts. Bibliography. (AF)

Two decades from mow, marriage will be very different from what it is today, a sociologist believes. Romantic love will have largely disappeared; there will be several kinds of marriage to choose from, and prospective parents will have to obtain licenses and undergo intensive training. (Author)

the findings indicated that (1) physical and psychlogical health are associated with marital happiness regardless of marital history, and (2) at the same time, divorce and remarriage tend to "select" the healthier members of the unhappy married population. (Author)

A female's resistance is generally an unconscious fear of assuming a wife and mother role, based upon an unsatisfactory childhood relationship with her own mother. (CJ)

This article points out many possible danger signals, and suggests some reasons why they are often overlooked or ignored, either by the principals or by their friends and relatives. (CJ)

Attention is centered on instrumental, affective, and temporal (especially family life cycle) variables as they account for the variance in marital happiness and stability. Data confirm previously established findings with regard to these variables but add some new dimensions and perspectives. Certain pervasive methodological problems in research…

Survey data were collected from a sample of 180 married men, employed as senior civil servants, in government institutions in Accra between 1967 and 1968. A syncratic power relationship was found most common among couples similar in education and age and jointly providing for household needs. A more traditional autonomic pattern was most common…

This study deals with the relationship between number and spacing of children and family role structure as measured by decision making and household task performance. Data on childbearing patterns and family role structure indicate that family size, spacing between marriage and first birth, and spacing between first and last birth are all related…

Paper utilizes data collected by Project TALENT, a cooperative effort of the U.S. Office of Education, the University of Pittsburgh, and the American Institutes of Research

Used short-term longitudinal data to examine the linkage between family transitions and marital experience. Multiple regression equations were estimated to compare change over time in 10 transitional and stable groups. Change occurring in transitional groups was generally not significantly different from that observed for nontransitional groups.…

Examined changes in response control patterns exhibited by five married couples who participated in two brief psychotherapy groups. Used the Ericson-Rogers Relational Coding System to score the control direction of interactions between group members. Found individual flexibility increased for each of these relationships over the course of group…

Examined husbands' appraisals of five marital events which were recorded daily for 90 consecutive days. Subjects (N=20) appraised events according to four qualities: desirability, changingness, meaningfulness, and control. Found no differences in how husbands from distressed and nondistressed marriages viewed events. (Author)

Tested the hypothesis that low consensus of volunteer couples completing the Spouse Observation Checklist underestimates that achieved by clinic couples. That hypothesis was not supported. Couples (N=10) beginning marital therapy achieved agreement rates on joint SOC behaviors of 38.6 percent. Findings confirm the low reliability of spouse…

Assesses the types of conversational patterns--from cross-complaining to contracting--that characterize satisfied couples; suggests theoretical models that account for their success. Proposes the hypothesis that the underlying mechanism that maintains closeness in marriages is symmetry in emotional responsiveness, which relates to whether spouses…