Discusses the critical importance and impact that specific types of cognitions may have on couples' ability to resolve their conflicts functionally, based on rational-emotive therapy. Reviews perspectives on marital conflict in terms of discovery, modification, and behavioral action and observation. (JAC)

Married couples (N=82) completed the Bem Sex Role Inventory (BSRI), the Behavioral Inventory (BI), and the Spanier Dyadic Adjustment Test to examine the relationship of marital adjustment to androgyny. Sex-role behavior of husbands was of primary importance, both for their marital adjustment and their wives. (HLM)

Considered life changes accompanying parenthood within the context of personal and marital life dimensions. Results indicated that wives perceived more overall life change and more change in their personal lives than husbands. Seven personal and five marital variables significantly discriminated between the responses of husbands and wives. (WAS)

The structure of a society's status hierarchy is usually investigated through the analysis of occupational mobility, that is, the association of fathers' and sons' occupations. This research study introduces another indicator that is conceptually similar but empirically distinct: the association of husbands' and wives' occupational statuses.…

Explored questions about the power of family life-cycle categories to predict marital quality, the trend of marital quality over the family life-cycle, and relationships between perceived marital quality and family life-cycle categories. Results indicated family life-cycle and total number of children were significant predictors of marital…

Analyzed data from 100 intensive interviews with Chicano married couples. Several variables were analyzed to determine whether they had any correlation with the type of conjugal role structure a couple had. The factor having the strongest impact was whether or not the wife was employed outside the home. (Author)

Time data indicate that, even when employed outside the home, wives still spend more time in household production than other family members. Wives spent less time in dishwashing and care of clothing activities, while children spent more time shopping, in 1977 than in 1967. (Author/CT)

Findings of this research indicate that it was the absolute amount of family income, not its sources, that had the most influence on both 1967 and 1972 net worth for the total sample. Wife's earnings may have made an important contribution to family net worth position. (CT)

The Grief Experience Inventory and the MMPI were used to assess bereavement reactions in newly bereaved individuals. Intensities of bereavement reactions were compared across types of deaths experienced, i.e., spouse, child, and parent. Significantly higher intensities of grief were noted in parents surviving their child's death. (Author)

Administered personality tests to groups selected to represent the various stages of the divorce process. Results indicated intensified feelings of depression, anxiety, and hostility as subjects entered marriage counseling. However, by the sixth to twelfth month after the divorce, most of these negative feelings had disappeared. (Author)

Widows were interviewed to investigate how they coped with the many facets of widowhood, including intimacy-sexuality loss. Availability of family and/or friends as a source of support was found to be most important for satisfactory coping. Sexual problems, expecially frustration, were evident among many widows. (Author)

Results of this study suggest that for women, particularly those who are older, have children, and have been married longer, the more open their marriages, the better adjusted they are. For women, marital adjustment increases as the amount of consensus between husbands' and wives' views on marital openness increases. (Author/BEF)

Systematic instruction in conflict management is an effective means for the group counselor to help couples resolve their conflicts and develop a support system for meaningful resolution of future conflict. With this appraoch group members help to develop new behaviors that enhance the intimacy of the marriage. (Author)

Discusses strategies to enable the spouses of campus CEOs to play a productive role in institutional advancement: clarify expectations, focus on areas of interest, work with dual-career couples, provide support, consider compensation, and realize that recognition matters. (EV)

Findings from 130 male executives and their spouses provided strong support for construct validity and internal consistency of global measure of work spillover. Data did not support hypothesis that work stress spills over into some role contexts more than others. Identified at least 3 distinct processes by which work can spill over and affect…