Predicting marital instability from spouse and observer reports of marital interaction
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A study reveals that the perceptions of the spouses and reports of outside observers regarding the quality of marital interaction, can predict marital instability with a high degree of accuracy. The amount of hostility and warmth shown by spouses towards each other in the study, helps to predict with 80% accuracy the proneness of couples to divorce and with 88% accuracy the stability of the marriage. External observations of the behaviour and perceptions of the wife are more accurate in predicting the status of the marriage than those of the husband.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1996
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Self-concept disconfirmation, psychological distress, and marital happiness
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Subjective self-concept disconfirmation affects marital happiness in wives as it is positively related to depression. In husbands, objective self-concept disconfirmation affects marital happiness by producing self-efficacy and depression. Individuals with lower levels of self-efficacy are more depressed. Self-concept disconfirmation is an indicator of psychological stress. Individual self-confirming behaviors directly influence the self-verification.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1996
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Marital success and domains of social support in long-term relationships: Does the influence of network members ever end?
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The link between certain domains of social network support and the longer-term marital success of those married for around 20 years is examined. It is hypothesized that three areas of social network support would predict marital success. The results indicate that social networks have an influence in long-term marital relationships. Affective overlap and personal support did not predict marital success.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1999
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