Predicting marital quality with narrative assessments of marital experience
Article Abstract:
A study by the Institute for Social Research of the University of Michigan used a longitudinal analysis of the first years of marriage of 199 black and 174 white couples, from 1986 to 1989, to predict marital quality from a joint narrative by couples about their relationships. Third-year marital happiness was directly related to the similarity of description of relational aspects and the couples' perception of their courtship as a positively accelerating experience.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1993
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
The effects of family characteristics and time use on teenagers' household labor
Article Abstract:
Longitudinal time-use data was analyzed to determine what types of household chores teens are most likely to perform. Girls were found to devote more time to household tasks than boys. Efforts were greater in larger families and in single parent families. High school males were found to spend more time on leisure activities than girls.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Hard living, perceived entitlement to a great marriage, and marital dissolution
Article Abstract:
The effect of couple's gender attitudes, perceived unfairness, and marital disagreements on marital dissolution is examined.
Publication Name: Journal of Marriage and the Family
Subject: Family and marriage
ISSN: 0022-2445
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Gender ideology, marital disruption, and the employment of married women. Economic dependence, gender, and the division of labor in the home: a replication and extension
- Abstracts: Adolescent satisfaction with school-based mental health services. The relationship between family factors and adolescent substance use in rural, suburban, and urban settings
- Abstracts: Moving beyond institutional care for individuals with developmental disabilities. Semantic equivalence of assessment instruments across cultures
- Abstracts: Explaining the intergenerational transmission of divorce. The consequences of divorce for adults and children
- Abstracts: Remarriage, stepchildren, and marital conflict: challenges to the incomplete institutionalization hypothesis. Till discord do us part: The role of physical and verbal conflict in union disruption