A new look at marital quality: can spouses feel positive and negative about their marriage?

Article Abstract:

Assessing positive marital quality (PMQ) and negative marital quality (NMQ) independently can boost understanding of marriage compared with using traditional measures of marital quality. Associated PMQ and NMQ dimensions were found to correlate with behaviour and attributions in a theoretically significant way. For both husbands and wives, the extent of the correlations between PMQ and NMQ scores was similar to those between positive and negative dimensions of attitudes established in social psychological research.

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Job loss and depressive symptoms in couples: Common stressors, stress transmission, or relationship disruption?

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Three models were tested to find whether depressive symptoms in both members of the couple were due to common stressors, the transmission of stress from one member to the other, or changes in relationship quality. It was found that common stressors influenced depressive symptoms in both partners, whereas anger and depressive symptoms of each partner and reductions in relationship quality partially mediated these effects on the other partner.

Diagnosis, Depression, Mental, Depression (Mood disorder), Stress management

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Birds of a feather or strange birds? Ties among personality dimensions, similarity, and marital quality

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The relationship between six personality dimensions and marital satisfaction in 132 distressed, treatment-seeking couples and 48 nondistressed couples, is examined. The results suggest that nonpathological variations in the personality dimensions do not contribute to satisfaction, and that similarity between partners' personalities might not be closely connected to marital happiness.

Management dynamics, Management, Company business management, Individual differences, Individual differences (Psychology)

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