Effective communication is assumed to help sustain couple relationships and is a key focus of most relationship education programs. We assessed couple problem-solving communication in 65 stepfamily and 52 first-time-marrying couples, with each group stratified into high risk and low risk for relationship problems based on family-of-origin experiences. Relative to partners in first-time couples, partners […]
We document intermarriage patterns between Hispanics and non-Hispanic whites over the 1990 to 2000 period in 155 U.S. metropolitan areas and evaluate the effects of spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation on interdecade changes in intermarriage. We hypothesize that changes in Hispanic-white intermarriage during the 1990s reflect changing spatial, cultural, and economic assimilation among U.S. Hispanics. […]
The Marital Discord Model of Depression maintains that marital discord is an important antecedent in the development of depression. Although empirical evidence supports this premise, none of this research has been done with Latinos. The purpose of this study was to test the longitudinal relationship between marital satisfaction and depression among 99 Brazilian women. Using […]
Table of Contents: 1. Overview of Empowering Couples Program. 2. Building Your Couple Strengths. 3. Improving Your Communication Skills. 4. Resolving Couple Conflict. 5. Managing Your Finances. 6. Improving Your Couple Dynamics. 7. Developing Your Couple Action Plan. (Curriculum resource)
Longitudinal data from 293 Dutch couples were used to examine the association between conflict frequency and relationship quality across the transition to parenthood, which is known as one of the most challenging events in the early stages of marriage. More frequent conflict during pregnancy was related to lower levels of relationship quality across the transition […]
Chapter 1. The Path of the Strong. Chapter 2. Communication. Chapter 3. Conflict Resolution. Chapter 4. Role Relationship. Chapter 5. Managing Finances. Chapter 6. Spiritual Beliefs. Chapter 7. Sexual Relationship. Chapter 8. Mapping Your Couple Relationship. Chapter 9. Children and Parenting. Chapter 10. Personal, Couple, and Family Goals.
This article uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort Mother-Child files to explore the idea that child well-being can be improved by encouraging and enhancing parental marriage. I consider how children’s living arrangements, the stability of parental marriages, and changes in living arrangements are related to children’s behavior and cognitive test […]
The Marriage Calculator helps policy makers, researchers, and the general public to understand the financial consequences of marriage for individuals earning less than about $40,000 per year. Users can see how taxes and public assistance change when a couple’s living arrangement changes from living apart to cohabiting to married. This is a general use tool. […]
We examine whether institutionalized practices and beliefs regarding breadwinning roles are associated with the choice of more or less equal money management strategies in marriage. Using cross-national data from 21 country contexts in the International Social Survey Programme and multilevel modeling, we find that in contexts of shared breadwinning, there is a greater likelihood of […]
Whether you’re single, a single parent, married, divorced, engaged, or a teen this guide will help you get beyond the myths about marriage and see what over 20 years of social science research have show to be true. (Author abstract)