The course of marital success and failure in five American 10-year marriage cohorts

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The effect of length of marriage on marital quality among American couples was investigated. Data from the 1973-1994 American General Social Surveys were analyzed using a repeated cross-sectional design to determine marital success and failure in five American 10-year marriage cohorts. Empirical results contradicted the common belief that marital quality tends to improve at mid-term and reaches its peak during the later years of marriage. The findings indicate that differences in marital success between mid-term and long-term marriages are largely cohort differences.

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Predicting marital happiness and stability from newlywed interactions

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Seven types of marital interaction processes were examined among 130 newlyweds from Seattle, WA, over a span of six years. The models were physiological soothing of the male, positive affect models, de-escalation, negative start-up by the wife, negative affect reciprocity, active listening and anger as the detrimental emotion versus the Four Horsemen. The results revealed no proofs to back up the model of anger as the detrimental emotion in marriages. The results suggested that the active listening model does not happen very often during conflict resolution.

Conflict management, Divorce

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The importance of task in evaluating positive marital interactions

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Task context is efficacious in evaluating the reliability and validity of observer assessments of positive marital interactions. This was affirmed by a testing of the hypothesis that the general use of task designed to elicit conflict, disagreement or problem-solving behaviors has resulted in discrepancies in earlier research between positivity in spousal interactions and marital quality. It was found that the marital discussion task generated higher levels of spousal warmth than the problem-solving task.

Communication in marriage, Marital communication

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