Journal articles: 'Marital partners'

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Karademas, Evangelos C. "The psychological well-being of couples experiencing a chronic illness: A matter of personal and partner illness cognitions and the role of marital quality." Journal of Health Psychology 19, no. 11 (June 5, 2013): 1347–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105313488983.

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This study aimed to examine the effects of 75 cardiac patients’ and their spouses’ illness cognitions of acceptance and helplessness on their own and their partner’s psychological symptoms, as well as the impact of marital quality. Dyadic responses were examined with the Actor–Partner Interdependence Model, while PROCESS was used to examine possible conditional indirect effects. Patients’ and spouses’ cognitions were related to their partners’ symptoms through the partners’ cognitions. These relationships were not statistically significant at the higher levels of marital quality. Thus, there seems to be a flow of information between partners, while marital quality may impact self-regulation processes.

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Stinson, Morgan A., J. María Bermúdez, Jerry Gale, Denise Lewis, Andrea S. Meyer, and G. Bowden Templeton. "Marital Satisfaction, Conflict Resolution Styles, and Religious Attendance Among Latino Couples." Family Journal 25, no. 3 (June 22, 2017): 215–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480717710645.

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Research related to the process of communication among couples is central to the work of couple and family therapists. This study examines the relationship between couple’s conflict resolution styles, weekly church attendance, and marital satisfaction. Specifically, we surveyed 191 Latino couples using Gottman’s typology of conflict resolution styles (e.g., validator, avoidant, and volatile) to identify which style predicted marital satisfaction for both partners. Using the actor–partner interdependence model, we find a multifaceted picture of how partner’s conflict resolution style influences theirs and their partner’s marital satisfaction.

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Filipović, Severina, Tatjana Vukosavljević-Gvozden, and Goran Opačić. "Irrational Beliefs, Dysfunctional Emotions, and Marital Adjustment." Journal of Family Issues 37, no. 16 (July 10, 2016): 2333–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x15572384.

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This study aimed to formulate and test a thorough and comprehensive model that explains how irrational beliefs and dysfunctional emotions of partners affect marital adjustment. Unlike previous research that examined the direct association of irrational cognitions and marital disturbance, we hypothesized that emotions—anger, depression, and anxiety—have a mediatory role in the relationship between irrational cognitions and marital adjustment of both partners. We also hypothesized that dysfunctional emotions of one partner affect the perceived marital adjustment of the other partner. The model was tested on nonclinical sample of 100 couples ( N = 200). The results of structural equation modeling support the model. We found that irrational beliefs lead to dysfunctional emotions, which further affect the perceived marital adjustment of both partners. However, on examining the partners’ mutual effect, it was found that only dysfunctional emotions of the males affect females’ perceived marital adjustment but not vice versa.

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Baxter, Leslie A., and Kathryn Dindia. "Marital Partners' Perceptions of Marital Maintenance Strategies." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 7, no. 2 (May 1990): 187–208. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407590072003.

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Wilson, Stephanie J., Lynn M. Martire, and Ruixue Zhaoyang. "Couples’ day-to-day pain concordance and marital interaction quality." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 3 (January 21, 2018): 1023–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517752541.

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Chronic pain is a common stressor in couples’ daily lives, but little is known about couples’ day-to-day pain concordance (i.e., agreement regarding one partner’s level of pain) and its relevance to both partners’ daily marital interaction quality. Using 22-day diaries of patients diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis (OA) and their spouses, the current study sought to quantify the degree of daily fluctuation in both partners’ reports of patient pain, pain concordance, and marital interaction quality as well as assess the links between daily concordance and marital tension and enjoyment. Half of the variability in patient–spouse pain concordance and marital interaction quality was attributable to daily fluctuations in these experiences. Furthermore, after accounting for global marital satisfaction, on days when spouses overestimated pain, patients enjoyed marital interactions more, whereas spouses themselves experienced greater tension. Findings underscore the importance of examining pain concordance at the daily level, pain agreement’s significance for everyday marital function, and the potential challenge chronic illness poses for partners in daily life.

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Lange, Alfred, DÉ Waterman, and Gerard Kerkhof. "Sleep-Wake Patterns of Partners." Perceptual and Motor Skills 86, no. 3_suppl (June 1998): 1141–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pms.1998.86.3c.1141.

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Using self-report measures, the sleep/wake patterns and several aspects of marital adjustment of 55 couples were established. Preferred sleep/wake pattern and marital adjustment appeared not to be associated; however, couples who were mismatched on actual sleep/wake pattern showed lower marital adjustment than the matched couples.

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Stoker, Laura, and M. Kent Jennings. "Life-Cycle Transitions and Political Participation: The Case of Marriage." American Political Science Review 89, no. 2 (June 1995): 421–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2082435.

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We investigate the consequences of changes in marital status for political participation, treating marital status as marking points of continuity and transition in an individual's life history and marriage as a setting that fosters interaction and interdependence between marital partners. The analysis is based on panel and pseudopanel data from the 1965–82 socialization study of parents, offspring, and spouses. We find that marital transitions affect participation in four ways: (1) marital partners adjust their activity levels to become more like each other after marriage; (2) marital transitions of any type, especially marriage among younger people, tend to depress participation; (3) the overall effect of marriage, however, is powerfully mediated by the participation level of the partner; and (4) these mediation effects are greatest for political activities that involve collective efforts or draw upon the couple's joint resources.

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Obradović, Josip, and Mira Čudina Obradović. "Marital Partners' Traits, Psychological Processes in Marriage, and Marriage Characteristics as Predictors of Love in Marriage." Drustvena istrazivanja 30, no. 1 (March 19, 2021): 1–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5559/di.30.1.01.

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This study was conducted to determine the predictors of marital love. Sternberg's Triangular Theory of Love (1986) is used as a starting point. Accordingly, a theoretical model that consists of four groups of level 1 predictor variables and a group of level 2 variables is used. The dependent variables in the model include the three dimensions of love: Passion, Intimacy, and Commitment. The research was conducted among 884 married couples from different parts of Croatia. The results show that married women are less passionate and that marriage partners' passion in marriage is greater at the beginning of the marriage without children and when there is a mutual physical attraction between partners. Married women report less intimacy while greater marital intimacy was present in marriages where there is greater partner support. Unlike passion, the experience of intimacy does not vary at different marital stages. Women show less commitment and partners' commitment to marriage is greater when there is greater emotional stability of both partners, greater mutual physical attraction, and partner support. At the end of the paper, limitations on making firmer conclusions based only on the present study are emphasized.

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Burrus,, Kimberly J., and Rebecca J. Cobb,. "Spouses’ Perceptions of Aggression and Associations With Relationship Satisfaction." Partner Abuse 2, no. 2 (2011): 189–207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1891/1946-6560.2.2.189.

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We investigated whether residual partner perceptions (after controlling spouses’ self-reports) of physical and psychological aggression predicted marital satisfaction in 188 heterosexual newlywed couples over the first 6 months of marriage. Husbands’ and wives’ reports of physical and psychological aggression were moderately associated, highlighting the mutuality of aggression and consensus between spouses’ reports. Results of path analyses in structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that to the extent that wives perceived their husbands as more physically and psychologically aggressive than spouses self-reported, wives were less maritally satisfied. To the extent that husbands’ perceived their wives as more psychologically aggressive than spouses self-reported, husbands were marginally less maritally satisfied. Generally, spouses’ self- and partner reports of physical or psychological aggression did not predict partners’ marital satisfaction or changes in marital satisfaction over 6 months. However, results suggested that at least concurrently, spouses’ perceptions of partners’ aggressive behavior play an important role in marital satisfaction, and this may be especially true for wives.

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Hsieh, Ning, and Louise Hawkley. "Loneliness in the older adult marriage." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 35, no. 10 (June 8, 2017): 1319–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517712480.

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Marriage protects against loneliness, but not all marriages are equally protective. While marriage is a highly interdependent relationship, loneliness in marital dyads has received very little research attention. Unlike most studies proposing that positive and negative marital qualities independently affect loneliness at the individual level, we used a contextual approach to characterize each partner’s ratings of the marriage as supportive (high support, low strain), ambivalent (high support, high strain), indifferent (low support, low strain), or aversive (low support, high strain) and examined how these qualities associate with own and partner’s loneliness. Using couple data from the Wave II National Social Life, Health and Aging Project ( N = 953 couples), we found that more than half of the older adults live in an ambivalent, indifferent, or aversive marriage. Actor–partner interdependence models showed that positive and negative marital qualities synergistically predict couple loneliness. Spouses in aversive marriages are lonelier than their supportively married counterparts (actor effect), and that marital aversion increases the loneliness of their partners (partner effect). In addition, wives (but not husbands) in indifferent marriages are lonelier than their supportively married counterparts. These effects of poor marital quality on loneliness were not ameliorated by good relationships with friends and relatives. Results highlight the prominent role of the marriage relationship for imbuing a sense of connectedness among older adults and underscore the need for additional research to identify strategies to help older adults optimize their marital relationship.

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Kotler, Tamara. "Patterns of Change in Marital Partners." Human Relations 42, no. 9 (September 1989): 829–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001872678904200906.

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Monin, Joan K., Lu Zhou, and Trace Kershaw. "Attachment and Psychological Health in Older Couples Coping with Pain." GeroPsych 27, no. 3 (January 2014): 115–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1024/1662-9647/a000110.

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Attachment theory is useful for understanding how couples cope with stress across the lifespan. This study used the the Actor Partner Interdependence Model to examine the extent to which attachment related to one’s own (actor effect) and one’s partner’s (partner effect) depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction among older, married couples with a musculoskeletal condition. Pain and support were also examined as mediators. A group of 77 couples completed self-report measures as part of a larger study in which support was manipulated. Results revealed that, when one or both partners were insecurely attached, both partners reported greater depressive symptoms and lower satisfaction; however, pain and support were not significant mediators. Findings have implications for targeted, dyadic interventions to improve psychological health of couples coping with pain.

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Winstok, Zeev, and Murray A. Straus. "Gender Differences in Intended Escalatory Tendencies Among Marital Partners." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 26, no. 18 (May 20, 2011): 3599–617. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260511403750.

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This study addresses the intended escalatory tendency in eight hypothetical situations in which the provocator’s identity (partner or stranger, male or female) and the provocation form (verbal or physical aggression) were manipulated. The research question is “how does the identity of the provocator and the form of his or her provocation affect the participant’s intended escalation level, and does the gender of the participant affect differences in intended escalation level?” The research sample consisted of 208 Israeli couples. The main finding is that women’s intended response to their male partner is more escalatory than men’s intended response to their female partner. Results also show that women’s escalation is the most severe to partner provocation and the least severe to male strangers’ provocation. Men’s escalation is the most severe to provocation by male strangers and the least severe to their partner’s provocation. Findings indicate that men’s intention to escalate decreases as their partner’s provocation becomes more severe. The severity of provocation has little effect on women’s inten–tion to escalate. Such results are consistent with social role theory and sexual selection theory that maintain that status enhancement is more important for men than for women, and is more important for men than risk reduction is, whereas the opposite is true for women.

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Monk, J. Kale, Brian G. Ogolsky, TeKisha M. Rice, Renee Peltz Dennison, and Matthew Ogan. "The role of family-of-origin environment and discrepancy in conflict behavior on newlywed marital quality." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 38, no. 1 (September 18, 2020): 124–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407520958473.

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How partners handle conflict may be transmitted across generations and contribute to relationship quality. Using a sample of 220 newlywed couples ( N = 440) we examined the associations between destructive family-of-origin conflict patterns and discrepancies in current conflict behaviors (e.g., conflict engagement, withdrawal, negative problem solving) with marital quality. Destructive conflict mediated the relationship between destructive family-of-origin conflict and subsequent marital quality. We found actor and partner effects for the association between destructive conflict behavior and marital quality. Moreover, discrepancies in spousal use of negative problem solving was associated with lower marital quality for husbands, although we found limited evidence of partner discrepancy overall.

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Champion, Victoria, Andrea A. Cohee, Patrick Monahan, Timothy E. Stump, Kathy Miller, Lynne Wagner, David Cella, and George Sledge. "Quality of life difficulties in partners of young breast cancer survivors." Journal of Clinical Oncology 34, no. 3_suppl (January 20, 2016): 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/jco.2016.34.3_suppl.188.

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188 Background: Although breast cancer is more commonly diagnosed in post-menopausal women, there are a significant number of survivors diagnosed at age 45 or younger. Compared to older survivors, younger survivors have significantly more problems with depression sexual functioning, marital satisfaction, and overall well-being, but there is little research on the partners of these younger survivors. The purpose of this study is to determine if the partners of young survivors experience more problems with depression, sexual functioning, marital satisfaction, and overall well-being than partners of age-matched controls. Methods: Survivors and partners (n=227) were enrolled in a large cross-sectional study, executed through the ECOG-ACRIN Cancer Research Group. Eligibility for survivors included being 45 or under at diagnosis, 3 to 8 years from treatment without a breast cancer recurrence, and with similar chemotherapy treatment regimens. Survivors identified age-matched acquaintance controls without breast cancer. These age matched controls and their partners (n=170) were also included. All groups completed a survey assessing demographic characteristics, depression, sexual functioning (enjoyment and difficulty), marital satisfaction, and overall well-being. The partners of both young survivors and acquaintance controls were compared on all study variables adjusting for demographic variables. Results: Partners of young survivors reported significantly more depression (effect size [ES] = -0.23, p=.0199), worse sexual functioning as indicated by lower enjoyment (ES= 0.32, p=.0019) and more sexual difficulty (ES= -0.24, p=.0164), lower marital satisfaction (ES=0.24, p=.0189), and lower overall well-being (ES= 0.40, p=.0001). Conclusions: Partners of breast cancer survivors suffer from problems similar to breast cancer survivors. Further research is needed to fully understand the impact of a breast cancer diagnosis on both the partner as well as the survivor, especially when problems exist that are related to the dyadic relationship.

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Sotomayor-Peterson, Marcela, and Ana A. Lucero-Liu. "Correlates of mental health and well-being for Mexican female partners of migrants." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 13, no. 4 (December 11, 2017): 361–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-01-2016-0001.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the associations between familism, frequency of physical contact, and marital satisfaction with mental health and well-being in a sample of 58 female marital partners of migrants who stayed in Mexico when their spouses migrated to the USA. Design/methodology/approach In total, 58 women were recruited through word of mouth in Sonora, Mexico. All women had their partner (the father of her children) living in the USA. Survey was administered face-to-face in participants’ homes. Findings Hierarchical regression analysis found that higher marital satisfaction and frequency of physical contact predicts mental health and well-being. However, familism was not associated with mental health and well-being for female partners of migrants. Originality/value This work is unique in that the current sample of female partners of migrants originate from the Sonora border region and has greater physical contact with their partner than most studies on transnational families assume. Approximately 40 percent of participants residing in the Sonora border state meet with their partners at least once a month. Additionally, this work provides an intimate face to the understanding of the very specific processes distinctive of inhabitants of border regions that are part of international migration. In order to promote health equity, health providers (e.g. counselors) need evidence-based information to tailor services to the specific needs of underserved Mexican transnationals.

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McNulty, James K., Andrea L. Meltzer, Lisa A. Neff, and Benjamin R. Karney. "How both partners’ individual differences, stress, and behavior predict change in relationship satisfaction: Extending the VSA model." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 27 (June 28, 2021): e2101402118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2101402118.

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We pooled data from 10 longitudinal studies of 1,104 married couples to test the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) model of change in relationship satisfaction. Studies contained both spouses’ self-reports of neuroticism, attachment anxiety, and attachment avoidance; observational measures of engagement and opposition during problem-solving discussions at baseline; and repeated reports of both spouses’ stress and marital satisfaction over several years. Consistent with the VSA model, all three individual and partner qualities predicted changes in marital satisfaction that were mediated by observations of behavior and moderated by both partners’ experiences with stress. In contrast to the VSA model, however, rather than accentuating the association between individual differences and behavior, both partners’ stress moderated the strength, and even direction, of the association between behavior and changes in marital satisfaction over time. Taken together, these findings indicate that 1) qualities of both couple members shape their behavioral exchanges, 2) these behaviors explain how individuals and their partners’ enduring qualities predict relationship satisfaction, and 3) stress experienced by both couple members strongly determines how enduring qualities and behavior predict changes in relationship satisfaction over time. The complex interplay among both partners’ enduring qualities, stress, and behavior helps explain why studies may fail to document direct main effects of own and partner enduring qualities and behavior on changes in relationship satisfaction over time.

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Castro, Paulene, Kristin August, and Dara Sorkin. "Sociodemographic and Marital Differences in Spousal Involvement in a Partner’s Diabetes Diet." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 453. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.1467.

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Abstract Spouses are commonly involved in their partners’ diabetes management by supporting and regulating (i.e., controlling) their diet. Little is known, however, about what characteristics are associated with how and how often spouses are involved in this context. This study examined whether sociodemographic and marital characteristics helped explain some of the variability in diet-related spousal involvement in promoting a partner’s adherence to a diabetes diet; specifically, whether gender, race/ethnicity, marital quality, and marital length were related to the frequency of spousal engagement in health-related social support and two types of health-related social control. Gender and race/ethnicity were examined as exploratory moderators of the associations between marital characteristics and spousal involvement. Data from two different data sets of older adults (55+ years) whose partners had type 2 diabetes were examined among four racial/ethnic groups (study 1 n = 205; study 2 n = 155). Regression analyses that controlled for patients’ co-morbid health conditions revealed gender and racial/ethnic differences in the frequency of spousal involvement. In addition, marital quality was related to the frequency of support and positive forms of social control among most participants, particularly African American spouses. No associations between marital length and any type of spousal involvement were found, nor were there any gender differences in any of these associations. These findings provide insight into the importance of sociodemographic characteristics and marital quality in understanding spousal involvement in a partner’s diabetes management.

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Gorchoff, Sara M., Oliver P. John, and Ravenna Helson. "Contextualizing Change in Marital Satisfaction During Middle Age." Psychological Science 19, no. 11 (November 2008): 1194–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9280.2008.02222.x.

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To address the need for longitudinal marital research that takes contextual factors into account, we investigated change in women's marital satisfaction over 18 years of middle age. We examined not only whether marital satisfaction changed, but also why and how it changed. Marital satisfaction increased in middle age, and increased marital, but not life, satisfaction was linked to the transition to an empty nest. More specifically, the transition to an empty nest increased marital satisfaction via an increase in women's enjoyment of time with their partners, but not via an increase in the quantity of that time with partners. Also, increasing marital satisfaction was not attributable to changing partners. Taken together, these findings support the utility of applying a contextualized approach focused on major life transitions to the study of long-term change in marital satisfaction.

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Holway, Giuseppina Valle, Debra Umberson, and Mieke Beth Thomeer. "Binge Drinking and Depression." Society and Mental Health 7, no. 1 (November 2, 2016): 36–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2156869316674056.

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Although research shows that spouses influence each other’s health behaviors and psychological well-being, we know little about whether these patterns extend to young people in nonmarital as well as marital relationships. We use the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health to consider how a romantic partner’s binge drinking and depression influence the respondent’s binge drinking and depression within 1,111 young adult couples and explore whether these processes are moderated by gender. We find that partners’ binge drinking is associated with increased odds of binge drinking for respondents and partners’ depression is associated with increased odds of depression for respondents. Further, depression among men is associated with reduced odds of binge drinking among their female partners. Findings suggest that processes of partner influence begin even in young adulthood with implications for cumulative effects on lifelong health behaviors and mental health.

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Mazzuca, Silvia, Konstantinos Kafetsios, Stefano Livi, and Fabio Presaghi. "Emotion regulation and satisfaction in long-term marital relationships: The role of emotional contagion." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 9 (October 14, 2018): 2880–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407518804452.

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How couples regulate their emotions and how they converge emotionally with one another can critically affect relationship quality. We examined individual differences in two different classes of interaction-relevant processes—emotion regulation (ER) and emotional contagion (EC), the tendency to catch and converge with the emotions of others—in long-term marital relationships. Results from the actor–partner interdependence model analyses indicated that (a) actors’ and partners’ levels of cognitive reappraisal (but not suppression) and EC were independently associated with higher marital satisfaction and (b) both partners’ and actors’ levels of EC moderated associations between cognitive reappraisal (but not suppression) and marital satisfaction, such that this association significantly increased for lower levels of EC. EC at couple level had a direct effect on marital satisfaction and overrode individual-level effects of EC. These results indicate that both automatic (EC) and controlled (ER) processes have independent and conjoint effects on marital satisfaction in long-wed couples and, to an extent, coincide in attempts to synchronize couples’ emotional linkage. The results point to intrapersonal and interpersonal mechanisms in the regulation of emotion in longer term marital relationships.

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Bilyk, Tetiana. "Instruments for studying socio-psychological factors in interpersonal communication dysfunction in marital conflicts." Організаційна психологія Економічна психологія 1, no. 22 (March 31, 2021): 18–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31108/2.2021.1.22.2.

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Introduction. The changing role of family in the society and the increased rate of divorce highlight the problem of socio-psychological factors that contribute to the emergence of marital conflicts caused by spouses' dysfunctional interpersonal communication. Aim: to determine a set of instruments for studying socio-psychological factors in interpersonal communication dysfunction in marital conflicts. Results. A proposed complex of instruments for studying of socio-psychological factors in interpersonal communication dysfunction in marital conflicts partners includes three groups of tools. The first group is aimed at studying the features of marriage partners' interpersonal interaction in conflict situations and their satisfaction with marriage. The second group includes focuses on studying micro-level socio-psychological factors (the characteristics of marital partners that affect their interpersonal communication in conflict situations). The third group consists of tools for studying meso-level socio-psychological factors (the features of family interaction with social environment and marriage partners' work-life balance, which can contribute to the emergence of marital partners' interpersonal communication dysfunction). Conclusions. The proposed set of instruments for studying the effects of socio-psychological factors on marriage partners' communication dysfunction in conflicts can be used by family counselors, family mediators, family therapists, and family coaches. The set of instruments can also be used for training future marriage partners, in particular, for marital conflict-management training.

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Draganic-Gajic, Saveta, Dusica Lesic-Tosevski, Nevena Calovska-Hercog, Desanka Nagulic, Bojana Stamenkovic-Rudic, and Sara Dimic. "Marital dysfunction and personality characteristics of partners." Medical review 58, no. 3-4 (2005): 175–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/mpns0504175d.

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Introduction A number of studies indicate that an early trauma is of extreme importance (most often experienced in the family of origin) in developing personality disorders. Researches on correlations between family dysfunction and individual psychopathology have been rare and controversial. The reason for this stems from an attempt to establish links between traditional medical models and systemic family therapy. The aim of this research was to explore specific personality structures of married couples and the way they relate to the type of dysfunction within the partner relationship. Material and methods The sample consisted of 25 families in the middle of divorce. The examinees were aged 25-45. Specific interactional behavioral patterns were examined by Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS), while personality profile data were obtained using Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI). Results and conclusions In both groups dependency and obsessivness were marked, while males also presented with marked narcissism. Related to structural personality disorders, we have found only a group of men with significantly increased paranoid dimension. Concerning clinical syndromes, the obtained results revealed anxiety and depressive disorder in both genders and a tendency towards alcohol abuse among men. Results indicated to correlation of communication-interactive family patterns on one hand, and certain personality traits on the other. .

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Dunleavy, Katie Neary, and Kelley Dougherty. "Marital Partners' Perceptions of Effective Message Repair." Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 14, no. 1 (January 2013): 44–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17459435.2013.835341.

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da Silva, Ana Lúcia, Andréa Mathes Faustino, João Batista Sousa, André Luiz Vianna, and Paulo Gonçalves Oliveira. "Marital interactions in partners of ostomized patients." Journal of Coloproctology 34, no. 4 (October 2014): 210–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcol.2014.08.005.

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Carvalho, Milca Ramaiane da Silva, Jeane Freitas de Oliveira, Nadirlene Pereira Gomes, Mariana Matias Santos, Fernanda Matheus Estrela, and Helenise Maria da Silva Duarte. "Interface between conjugal violence and alcohol consumption by the partner." Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem 71, suppl 5 (2018): 2109–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0034-7167-2017-0540.

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ABSTRACT Objective: to analyze the discourse of women on the interface between marital violence and alcohol use by the partner. Method: qualitative exploratory research, based on the methodological reference of oral history. We interviewed 19 women with a history of marital violence and involvement with drugs. The data were analyzed through discourse of the collective subject. Results: the participants’ discourse points to consumption of alcohol by partners as a potentiating element of violent episodes, also experienced by their parents, signaling to its transgenerational character; it also calls attention to the danger of marital violence resulting from men’s reactions to having their alcohol consumption questioned by their partners. Final considerations: the study identifies alcohol as a precipitating and/or potentiating factor of conjugal violence, as well as the intergenerational character of violence based on male domination and intolerance.

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Akpadago, Joseph. "Causes of Marital satisfaction and the criteria of choosing partners for marriage as Perceived by the People of Navrongo in The Upper East Region of Ghana." International Journal for Innovation Education and Research 8, no. 9 (September 1, 2020): 310–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.31686/ijier.vol8.iss9.2635.

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The study examined the causes of marital satisfaction and the criteria of choosing marriage partners as perceived by the people of Navrongo in the Upper East Region of Ghana. Data were gathered through the use of Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI). The sample size was 384 participants comprising 192 males and 192 females who responded to the Marital Satisfaction Inventory. The stratified and quota sampling procedures were used to select the respondents for the study. The study showed that some couples in Navrongo were not satisfied with their marriages as indicated by respondents to the MSI. Seven scales were used as indicators for marital satisfaction. These included, relationship, affection, love and appreciation, character, temperament, in-law issues, marital roles, and general evaluation. Couples would have been satisfied if the mean scores of the various scales were high enough to fall within the specified satisfied range. The study showed that many married couples chose their partners through courtship than those who were married through betrothal. In Navrongo, more females are betrothed than males and males prefer courtship to betrothal. On the other hand, many men chose their partners through courtship than their female counterpart. Marital satisfaction and the criteria of choosing a partner for marriage by respondents also showed that 86.17% of those who married through betrothal were not satisfied with their marriages whereas 90% of respondents who married through courtship were also not satisfied with their marriages. Only about 13.8% and 10% for respondents of betrothal and courtship were satisfied with their marriages respectively.

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Mangialavori, Sonia, Grazia Terrone, Arianna Cantiano, Anna Chiara Franquillo, Giulia Lanza Di Scalea, Giuseppe Ducci, and Marco Cacioppo. "Dyadic Adjustment and Prenatal Parental Depression: A Study with Expectant Mothers and Fathers." Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 38, no. 10 (December 2019): 860–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1521/jscp.2019.38.10.860.

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Introduction: This paper evaluated the relationships between the dyadic adjustment of expectant parents and prenatal maternal and paternal depression. Method: Participants were 98 couples who were expectant parents in the third trimester of pregnancy. Most couples (97%) were primiparous. Participants' prenatal depression, psychiatric symptomatology, perinatal affectivity, and dyadic adjustment were evaluated. Results: Hierarchical regression and relative weight analyses showed the importance of various marital adjustment dimensions in predicting prenatal maternal and paternal depression. In particular, the marital relationship variables of dyadic consensus and affective expression of both partners was related to prenatal depression in expectant mothers, with the relationship even stronger in expectant fathers. The results suggested that for both partners, perception of marital relationship quality contributes to the development of depressive symptoms in new mothers and fathers to a greater degree than the single perception of one partner. Discussion: Clinically, the results suggest that clinicians should focus on partner relationships in the perinatal period. The provision of psychological interventions to improve a couple's functioning may help to protect new parents against depressive symptomatology.

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Krešić, Boris, and Ervina Halilović. "PROPERTY RELATIONS OF MARITAL PARTNERS THROUGH THE HISTORY OF BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA." Journal Human Research in Rehabilitation 7, no. 2 (September 2017): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.21554/hrr.091712.

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The institutes of contemporary family law are rooted in Roman law, including the property relations of marital partners. From the historical perspective, the property-legal relations of marital partners in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were subject to religious regulations and the rules of the General Civil Code and Family Law of the Socialist Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina. The article analyzes the solutions applied during the Roman, the Ottoman, and the AustroHungarian rule as well as the solutions included in the currently valid Basic Law on Marriage and Family Laws in BiH. The authors focus on the development of family law in terms of property relations of marital partners and provide historical-legal overview of the development of family law from the absolute power of pater familias to the full equality of marital partners.

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Moorman, Sara M. "The importance of feeling understood in marital conversations about end-of-life health care." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 28, no. 1 (November 22, 2010): 100–116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407510386137.

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This study investigates processes within marital discussions about end-of-life medical treatment preferences. The associations among marital quality, the perception of having been understood following discussion, and intentions for whom to appoint as a health care surrogate are addressed. Data from 2,969 white married couples in their mid-60s are analyzed. Four-fifths of primary respondents reported that their partners understood their preferences extremely well. Primary respondents’ perceptions of high marital quality were associated with feeling extremely well understood. In turn, feeling understood partially mediated the relationship between perceptions of marital quality and the intention to appoint the partner as durable power of attorney for health care (DPAHC). Implications for research on marital communication and quality end-of-life health care are discussed.

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Arrindell, W. A., and P. M. G. Emmelkamp. "Marital Adjustment, Intimacy and Needs in Female Agoraphobics and Their Partners: A Controlled Study." British Journal of Psychiatry 149, no. 5 (November 1986): 592–602. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjp.149.5.592.

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Female agoraphobics and their partners were compared with three groups of control couples (non-phobic female psychiatric patients and their husbands, maritally distressed couples, and happily married couples) on measures relating to marital adjustment, intimacy, and needs. Neither agoraphobics nor their partners rated their marriages as more maladjusted or unpleasant than non-phobic psychiatric patients or their partner controls. Instead, agoraphobics and their spouses were found to be more comparable to happily-married couples than to maritally-distressed controls. Non-phobic psychiatric patients and their partners were generally found to rate their marriages as being as distressing and unpleasant as those of maritally distressed controls.

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Snow, Thomas S., and William C. Compton. "Marital Satisfaction and Communication in Fundamentalist Protestant Marriages." Psychological Reports 78, no. 3 (June 1996): 979–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1996.78.3.979.

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Marital satisfaction and communication patterns were studied in homogamous fundamentalist Protestant couples, i.e., both partners have the same religious affiliation, heterogamous fundamentalist couples, i.e., each partner has a different religious affiliation, and couples who were not fundamentalist Protestant. A total of 78 couples completed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and the Marital Communication Inventory. Analyses indicated that importance of religion in a person's life rather than religious affiliation was a predictor of both satisfaction and communication patterns. Implications for further research were discussed.

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Stokes, Jeffrey, and Adrita Barooah. "Loneliness, Marital Quality, and Vascular Health Among Older U.S. Couples: A Longitudinal Dyadic Study." Innovation in Aging 4, Supplement_1 (December 1, 2020): 605. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igaa057.2041.

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Abstract Loneliness is a contributor to later life declines in health, including vascular health. Importantly, loneliness is not restricted to those who lack close social ties: More than one-third of married U.S. older adults experience loneliness, and having a lonely spouse increases the likelihood of experiencing loneliness oneself. Thus, over time loneliness in either spouse may lead to worse health for both spouses. Using longitudinal dyadic data from the Health and Retirement Study (2008-2014), we estimated multilevel lagged dependent variable models to examine implications of both partners’ loneliness at baseline for each spouse’s HbA1c four years later. Findings revealed that effects of both partners’ loneliness were contingent upon marital quality: Own and partner’s loneliness led to increases in HbA1c when perceived marital support was low, but this was attenuated at higher levels of marital support. These results extend prior research concerning loneliness and vascular health, and loneliness as a relational experience.

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Guzzo, Karen Benjamin. "A Research Brief on Prospective Marital Expectations among Cohabitors with Initial Marital Intentions." Journal of Family Issues 41, no. 11 (February 26, 2020): 1979–2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x20909145.

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Having initial intentions to marry increases cohabitors’ likelihood of marriage, yet some cohabitors with such plans do not marry. One explanation for non-marriage may be that prior union experiences and the challenges of raising shared or stepchildren could temper initially strong marital intentions. Using the 2011–15 National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), I examine prospective marital expectations among 531 current cohabitors in short-term unions (≤ 36 months) who report they were engaged or had definite plans to marry at the start of coresidence, focusing on prior union experiences, stepchildren, shared children, and pregnancy. A fifth of current cohabitors with initial marital intentions did not definitely expect to marry their partner, and the odds of definite expectations were lower if respondents’ partners had children from a prior union and higher if respondents were expecting a child. Prior union experiences, shared children, and the respondent’s own prior children were unrelated to expectations.

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Κυργερίδου, Ελένη, Παναγιώτα Βόρρια, and Γρηγόρης Κιοσέογλου. "Σχέσεις μεταξύ του ζευγαριού και οι αντιλήψεις τους για το δεσμό με τη μητέρα τους." Psychology: the Journal of the Hellenic Psychological Society 21, no. 2 (October 15, 2020): 183. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/psy_hps.23275.

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The current study examined the association between attachment style and adjustment in romantic relationships as well as the association between perceptions of adult attachment and adjustment in romantic relationships. 65 cohabitating couples aged from 21 to 32 years were recruited for the study. Couples completed the following self-report questionnaires: 1) Perceptions of Adult Attachment Questionnaire, PAAQ, Lichtenstein & Cassidy, 1991, 2) Experiences in Close Relationships Inventory, ECR, Brennan, Clark & Shaver, 1998 and 3) Dyadic Adjustment Scale, DAS, Spanier, 1976. Results showed that secure couples (both partners described themselves as securely attached) as well as mixed couples (one partner chose the secure description and the other defined himself or herself as insecure) reported higher relationship quality compared to both insecure couples (both partners described themselves as insecurely attached). Analyses aimed to test the links between early attachment experiences and marital relationship quality illustrated that both partners’ rejection from their mother in early childhood had a detrimental effect on women’s marital adjustment.

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Barros-Gomes, Patrícia, Jonathan Kimmes, Erika Smith, Bryan Cafferky, Sandra Stith, Jared Durtschi, and Eric McCollum. "The Role of Depression in the Relationship Between Psychological and Physical Intimate Partner Violence." Journal of Interpersonal Violence 34, no. 18 (October 22, 2016): 3936–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0886260516673628.

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Physical and psychological intimate partner violence (IPV) are significant public health concerns often associated with negative consequences for individuals, families, and society. Because IPV occurs within an interpersonal relationship, it is important to better understand how each partner’s depressive symptoms, marital satisfaction, and psychological and physical IPV are interlinked. The purpose of this study was to identify actor and partner effects in a dyadic data analysis association between marital satisfaction and depressive symptoms, its links to psychological IPV, and then to physical IPV. Guided by the social information processing model, this study has implications for understanding the processes leading to various types of IPV in people seeking couples therapy. Using cross-sectional data from 126 heterosexual couples, we conducted an actor–partner interdependence model (APIM) to test actor and partner effects. Indirect actor and partner effects were also assessed. More depressive symptoms were associated with lower marital satisfaction. More depressive symptoms were generally linked with increased perpetration of psychological and physical IPV. Psychological IPV was associated with an individual’s use of physical IPV. Effect sizes were moderate to large in magnitude. Four specific indirect effects were identified from depressive symptoms to psychological IPV to physical IPV. Depressive symptoms may be an important factor related to psychological and physical IPV for males and females. Implications include assessing for and treating depression in both partners, and discussing preferred ways of supporting each other that do not include psychological or physical IPV.

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Anderson, Trudy B., John R. Earle, and Charles F. Longino. "The Therapeutic Role in Later Life: Husbands, Wives and Couples." International Journal of Aging and Human Development 45, no. 1 (January 1, 1997): 49–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/nwm3-ehgx-mh69-fhq4.

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The present study investigates the extent to which marital partners are different or similar in their ways of enacting the therapeutic, or supportive, role. Specifically, the article compares husbands and wives categorically as in non-dyadic studies and then as marital partners as in dyadic studies. In addition, this study, by using data from the Aging Couples Study, included only dual-earner couples so as to control for the effects of work life on marital relations. Results showed that studies of individual married men and women understate the differences between marital partners in that some wives “overbenefit” in the exchange of conjugal supports. However, husbands more often “overbenefit.” Findings also indicated that the norm of reciprocity does not prevail regarding the extent of support, although it does for the types of support exchanged.

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Shakya, Dhanendra Veer. "Trends in Sexual Practices of Nepalese Youth over Time 2006-2016." Tribhuvan University Journal 32, no. 1 (July 1, 2018): 185–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/tuj.v32i1.24785.

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This study attempts to examine trends in incidence of sexual experience, age at first sex, number of life-time sex partners, multiple sex partners in last 12 months, relationship with last sex partner, and use of condom at last sex if last sex partner was other than spouse or non-live-in-partner among Nepalese youth over time 2006-2016. This study has used 2006, 2011 and 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey data files with weighted cases. Data are analyzed using percentage and frequency tables and statistical tests are carried out using binomial logistic and least square regression models not controlling for variables other than survey years. The findings show that incidences of pre-marital sex, multiple sex partners in last 12 months and other than spouse or non-live-in-partner as last (most recent) sex partner are increasing over time.

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Siegel, Alana, Yafit Levin, and Zahava Solomon. "The Role of Attachment of Each Partner on Marital Adjustment." Journal of Family Issues 40, no. 4 (November 12, 2018): 415–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x18812005.

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This study conducted a latent profile analysis on quantitative data gathered from 156 married couples, so to learn more about the role of attachment and gender in marital adjustment. This study explored Finzi-Dottan, Cohen, and Tyano’s (2004) theoretical model, which focuses on how the attachment of each partner contributes to the relationship’s dynamics. Findings were that two partners with secure attachment reported the highest levels of marital adjustment. Both partners with high levels of avoidance or anxiety reported the lowest levels of adjustment. Couples with a mixture of attachment experienced differing levels of adjustment. Differently than predicted, avoidant wives with secure husbands did not experience lower levels of adjustment than secure wives with avoidant husbands. Rather, the husbands endorsed lower levels of adjustment, while these differences were not implicated in the wives’ adjustment. The attachment profile combination was related to the spouse’s gender. Clinical implications of these findings are discussed.

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Hammett, Julia F., Donna M. Castañeda, and Emilio C. Ulloa. "Predicting Mental Health Based on Partners’ Marital Distress." Family Journal 24, no. 3 (May 9, 2016): 205–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480716648685.

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Punyanunt-Carter, Narissra Maria. "Reported Affectionate Communication and Satisfaction in Marital and Dating Relationships." Psychological Reports 95, no. 3_suppl (December 2004): 1154–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.95.3f.1154-1160.

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This study analyzed affectionate communication and satisfaction in marital and dating relationships. 100 married and dating partners completed the Relationship Satisfaction Scale, the Interpersonal Communication Satisfaction Inventory, and the Affectionate Communication Index. Analysis indicated both married and dating partners were satisfied with their relationships; however, individuals in dating relationships reported higher Nonverbal and Verbal Affectionate Communication than individuals in married relationships. Moreover, there was a significant difference between married and dating partners on Supportive Affectionate Communication. Married partners were more likely to express supportiveness than dating partners.

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Ehrlich, Katherine B., Michelle R. vanDellen, Julia W. Felton, C. W. Lejuez, and Jude Cassidy. "Perceptions about marital conflict: Individual, dyadic, and family level effects." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 36, no. 11-12 (February 13, 2019): 3537–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407519829846.

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Husbands and wives often provide different reports about the qualities of their relationship—a pattern of reporting that is often discounted as measurement error. In the present study, we tested three research questions related to perceptions of marital conflict in a sample of 123 married couples. First, we tested whether individual and partner attachment and depressive symptoms were associated with reports of conflict. Then, we examined whether these characteristics also explain absolute and directional discrepancies in reports of marital conflict. Finally, we examined how discrepancies in reports of marital conflict might be related to discrepancies in other dyadic reports within the family. Analyses revealed that individuals’ attachment avoidance and anxiety, but not depressive symptoms, were linked to their own perceptions of marital conflict. Further, partners’ attachment anxiety was positively associated with one’s own perceptions of marital conflict. Additional analyses revealed that wives’ attachment avoidance was positively associated with absolute discrepancies about conflict. Wives’ attachment avoidance predicted directional discrepancies, such that they reported relatively more conflict than their husbands reported as their attachment avoidance increased. Husbands’ attachment anxiety was marginally associated with overreporting conflict relative to their wives’ reports. Finally, discrepancies in spouses’ reports of marital conflict were associated with mother–adolescent and father–adolescent discrepancies in reports of parent–adolescent conflict. Results highlight the importance of measuring both partners’ perceptions of the relationship in order to capture meaningful variation in multi-informant reports.

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Stokes, Jeffrey E. "Two-Wave Dyadic Analysis of Marital Quality and Loneliness in Later Life: Results From the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing." Research on Aging 39, no. 5 (January 4, 2016): 635–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0164027515624224.

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This study examines dyadic reports of marital quality and loneliness over a two-year period among 932 older married couples resident in Ireland. Data from the first two waves of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (2009–2013) were analyzed to determine whether husbands’ and wives’ marital quality and loneliness at baseline predicted both spouses’ loneliness 2 years later. Two-wave lagged models tested the cognitive perspective on loneliness, the induction hypothesis, and actor–partner interdependence. Results indicated that perceptions of negative marital quality at baseline were related with greater loneliness 2 years later, supporting the cognitive perspective. Further, both spouses’ reports of loneliness at baseline were related with loneliness 2 years later, supporting the induction hypothesis. Partners’ reports of marital quality were not related with future loneliness, failing to support actor–partner interdependence. I discuss the implications of these findings for theory, practice, and future research concerning intimate relationships and loneliness in later life.

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Lemmens, Gilbert M. D., Ann Buysse, Els Heene, Ivan Eisler, and Koen Demyttenaere. "Marital satisfaction, conflict communication, attachment style and psychological distress in couples with a hospitalized depressed patient." Acta Neuropsychiatrica 19, no. 2 (April 2007): 109–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1601-5215.2006.00168.x.

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Background:There has been fairly consistent empirical support for the association between major depressive disorder and marital dissatisfaction. However, this evidence is limited mostly to out-patient and population-based samples. Further, the role of possible mediating factors such as attachment style and conflict communication are less well investigated in major depression.Objective:The present study aims to investigate whether couples with a depressed partner and nonclinical couples differ in marital satisfaction, attachment style, psychological distress and conflict communication. Gender differences are also investigated.Methods:Seventy-seven couples, who participated in a family intervention trial, were compared with 77 age- and gender-matched nonclinical couples.Results:The depressed patients reported more psychological distress and attachment difficulties and less marital satisfaction than their partners and the nonclinical couples. Partners perceived their relationship as more satisfying than the nonclinical couples. The clinical couples reported less mutual constructive and more mutual avoidant communication in their relationship compared with the nonclinical couples. Finally, female depressed patients reported higher levels of psychological symptoms and were more avoidant attached than male patients.Conclusions:This study shows important differences in several individual and relational characteristics between couples with a depressed partner and nonclinical couples. Further research will be necessary to clarify whether the investigated psychosocial variables play a causal and/or a maintaining role in depression.

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Juliet, Janis P. Stout, Auer John Kincey, Valerie F. Hillier, Ram Gokal, L. Gail Simon, and Desmond Oliver. "Sexual and Marital Relationships and Dialysis the Patient's Viewpoint." Peritoneal Dialysis International: Journal of the International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis 7, no. 2 (April 1987): 97–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089686088700700210.

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This study of 133 patients of both sexes on hemodialysis (HD) and continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) focusses on the patient's viewpoint of their satisfaction with their sexual relationships, and asks whether this had changed since commencement of treatment. Patients also were asked about their marital satisfaction and their partner's feelings in relation to their sexual relationship. This study shows that about half the patients reported a significant deterioration in their satisfaction with sexual relationships since starting dialysis. This deterioration was significant regardless of age, sex or mode of treatment. Patients ex pressed concern about this deterioration and felt that their partners were similarly concerned. Patients aged less than 60 years and all patients on hemodialysis expressed significantly more concern than those over 60 and those on CAPD. Satisfaction with marriage was reported as good on dialysis and this response was not related to the reported sexual dysfunction on treatment. All members of the multidisciplinary renal team, especially the social worker, should ensure that dialysis patients and their partners have access to appropriate psychosexual counselling by a trained sex counsellor as part of the overall treatment and counselling of dialysis patients.

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Bernier, Annie, and Célia Matte-Gagné. "More bridges: Investigating the relevance of self-report and interview measures of adult attachment for marital and caregiving relationships." International Journal of Behavioral Development 35, no. 4 (March 23, 2011): 307–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025410396766.

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The aim of this report was to investigate the associations between attachment state of mind, romantic attachment style, and indices of maternal functioning in two relational spheres: the mother—child relationship (i.e., maternal sensitivity and child attachment security) and the marital relationship (i.e., mothers’ and their partners’ marital satisfaction). The results, based on 59 families, indicated that attachment state of mind was associated with maternal sensitivity and with child attachment security, although not to mothers’ or their partners’ subjective feelings of marital satisfaction. In contrast, romantic attachment styles were related to both mothers’ and their partners’ marital satisfaction, although not to maternal sensitivity or child attachment. These findings add to the growing literature highlighting the unique value of each tradition of assessment in adult attachment research, by suggesting that variation in attachment security tapped by each measure may bear particular relevance for specific relationships.

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Pereira, M. Graça, José C. Machado, M. Rui Sousa, and Susana Pedras. "A study of a couple with type 2 diabetes: dyadic adjustment and psychological morbidity." Revista da Associação Médica Brasileira 60, no. 4 (July 2014): 318–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1806-9282.60.04.010.

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Objective: this study assessed dyadic adjustment and psychological morbidity in type 2 diabetic patients and their partners, focusing on the role of gender. Methods: 214 diabetic patients and their partners participated in the cross-sectional study and were assessed on psychological morbidity (HADS) and marital adjustment (RDAS). Data was analyzed using dyadic analysis, a statistical process that studies the patient/partner dyads simultaneously. Results: results revealed that the negative relationship between dyadic adjustment and psychological morbidity in female patients was stronger than in male diabetic patients or in partners of male diabetic patients. On the other hand, the relationship between dyadic adjustment and psychological morbidity in partners of diabetic men was stronger than the same relationship in partners of diabetic women. Conclusion: since gender is a moderator, it is important to attend to the different needs of female and male patients and the education of diabetic patients should be centered on the patient/partner dyad.

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Philippe, Jessica, Marie-Ève Bergeron, Marilou Côté, and Catherine Bégin. "Dietary and marital profile by partner weight asymmetry." Journal of Interpersonal Relations, Intergroup Relations and Identity 10 (2017): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.33921/bayg3556.

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This study aimed to compare heterosexual mixed-weight (one overweight and one healthy weight partner) and matched-weight couples on their relationship functioning and eating behaviors. One hundred seventy- four adult couples were recruited and grouped based on their body mass index. They completed a survey online. It was expected that mixed-weight couples would report poorer marital satisfaction and more eating related problems than matched-weight couples, especially among couples with overweight women and healthy weight men. Results showed that men from mixed-weight couples were less satisfied of their relationship and their sexuality compared to men from matched-weight couples. Thus, a gap between partners’ weight seems to be associated with men’s dissatisfaction, no matter which partner is overweight. However, this weight asymmetry has no impact on women’s satisfaction. These findings provide an informative contribution to scientific literature on the impact of weight asymmetry on couple relationship.

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Zuo, Jiping. "From Revolutionary Comrades to Gendered Partners." Journal of Family Issues 24, no. 3 (April 2003): 314–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0192513x02250888.

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Drawing on gender construction theory, this study examines marital construction of breadwinning as both responsibility and privilege in urban China in the market reform (1978–). Data come from interviews with 39 married couples in Beijing in the summer of 1998. Husbands are found to be more devoted to paid work than are wives, although both spouses are active in the labor market. Moreover, both wives and husbands prefer the husband to be the main or obligatory provider and the wife to be a family-committed career seeker. The analysis shows that the persistence of the male provider role in urban China is mainly due to marital interactions on an everyday basis, the normative constraints of the breadwinning boundary to both genders, and the lack of an economic environment that provides wives with a sufficient number of self-fulfilling jobs and socialized domestic services.

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Kostouli, Marialena, Despoina Xanthopoulou, and Christina Athanasiades. "Economic strain and subjective well-being in married couples with children: A dyadic analysis." European Journal of Counselling Psychology 5, no. 1 (December 23, 2016): 43–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.5964/ejcop.v5i1.94.

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The aim of this dyadic study was to investigate whether the economic strain (i.e., perceived deterioration of the financial situation and difficulty to respond to family obligations) experienced by married couples with children relates to their satisfaction with life, and whether marital satisfaction and parental self-efficacy mediate this relationship. To this end, we took both actor (i.e., partners' economic strain was expected to relate to their own life satisfaction via their own marital satisfaction and parental self-agency), as well as partner (i.e., partners' economic strain was expected to relate to their spouses' life satisfaction via their spouse's marital satisfaction and parental self-agency) effects into account. A total of 134 married couples with children participated in the study. Dyadic analyses revealed that wives’ perceived difficulty to respond to family obligations related to their husbands’ life satisfaction, via their husbands’ parental self-agency. Moreover, annual family income related negatively to wives’ life satisfaction, via wives’ difficulty to respond to their family obligations. In addition, husbands’ deterioration of their financial situation related negatively to their life satisfaction, via their marital satisfaction. Last but not least, husbands’ deterioration of their financial situation related negatively to their wives’ marital satisfaction and parental self-agency. These findings have important implications for counseling because they suggest that married couples' subjective well-being suffers in times of financial turmoil, while gender differences determine the psychological processes through which economic strain relates to husbands' and wives' life satisfaction.

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