Who are the marital experts?

Article Abstract:

This article examines whether professional training or personal experience with marriage predicted accuracy in judging marital satisfaction and marital stability. The authors, evaluating nine groups of participants who watched videos of married couples interacting, found that marital satisfaction was more accurately judged by peronsal experience than by professional training, however, neither group was able to predict divorce.

Product information, Testing, Divorce, Judgment, Judgment (Psychology)

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Family-of-origin experiences and adjustments in married couples

Article Abstract:

This article examines how family-of-origin experiences influence each partner's experience of marriage. The authors, employing structural equation modeling procedures in which the couple is the unit of analysis, found that family-of-origin experiences significantly influence marital adjustment, however, wives were more strongly influenced by their family of origin than husbands.

Influence, Husband and wife, Husband-wife relations, Family

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