Assessed the relationship between complexity level and marital communication response in 28 married adults who role-played situations including chores and communication or relationship issues. Results showed cognitive complexity was predictive of effective responses only in situations involving a couple's relationship. (JAC)

Investigated the relationship between cohabitation and subsequent marital quality in 309 recently married couples. Results showed that having cohabited premaritally was associated with significantly lower perceived quality of communication for wives and significantly lower marital satisfaction for both spouses. (LLL)

Surveyed 278 couples who participated in a Catholic Marriage Encounter weekend, to investigate individual characteristics and marital satifaction. Results suggested the ME sample viewed their marriages as above average to excellent, and perceived themselves to be involved in marriage enrichment to enrich an already stable relationship. (JAC)

Discusses a study that found that marital adjustment was positively related to both spouse's reported self-disclosure of feelings and to self's reported perception of affective disclosure. Also found that one's perception of differences between self and other in the disclosure of love was inversely related to one's marital adjustment. (JOW)

Discusses research based on a household time allocation model which assumes employment status and length of employment day are outside the realm of family choice when making daily time-use decisions. (JOW)

This study investigates the construct validity of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) with the hope of clarifying contradictions in previous studies using similar methods. Subjects' type categories generated by the MBTI, self-typings, and typing by subjects' spouses were used. (Author/AL)

Suggests that changes in the work experience of wives are likely to have only a small effect on family income inequality. (JOW)

Uses a computer simulation of the distributional effect of increasing labor force participation among wives to estimate the impact on family income distribution. (JOW)

Assessed marital relationship quality of newlyweds: first-married husbands (N=308), first-married wives (N=290), remarried husbands (N=150), and remarried wives (N=168). Examined liking of partner, trustworthiness of partner, intrinsic reasons for relationship, shared decision making, and global appraisal of relationship. Found no evidence that…

Discusses lack of direction in study of how couples think about their relationships as resulting from lack of delineation of important cognitive variables in marital functioning, conceptual and methodological difficulties in attempts to operationalize cognitive variables, and dearth of models of marital functioning that incorporate cognitions in…

Individuals (N=221) who had stopped smoking completed shortened Partner Interaction Questionnaire, reporting frequency of 10 positive and 10 negative behaviors of spouse/romantic partner in response to smoking cessation. Ratio of received positive/negative behaviors was consistently better predictor of abstinence than were frequencies of either…

Assessed validity and clinical utility of marital inventory ENRICH using national sample of 5,039 married couples. Results from discriminant analysis indicated that using either individual or couple scores, happily married couples could be discriminated from unhappily married couples with 85-95 percent accuracy. Results were cross-validated with…

Studied conjugal role segregation in 150 married women from intact families in working-class community. Found that, although involvement in dense kinship networks was associated with conjugal role segregation, respondents' attitudes toward marital roles and phase of family cycle when young children were present were more powerful predictors of…

Identified six types of very long-term marriages: stable/positive, stable/neutral, stable/negative, curvilinear, continuous decline, and continuous increase. Case records of 17 marriages lasting between 50 and 69 years revealed that nearly 75 percent of the marriages showed either curvilinear or stable/positive patterns. Found no continuous…

Presents a didactic-experiental workshop that may be used with groups of family therapists and their spouses to help them explore marital issues that sometimes emerge as a result of the work of the family therapist. Concludes family therapists should not neglect their own marriages. (Author/ABL)