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Direct linkKamp Dush, Claire M.; Taylor, Miles G. – Journal of Family Issues, 2012
Using typologies outlined by Gottman and Fitzpatrick as well as institutional and companionate models of marriage, the authors conducted a latent class analysis of marital conflict trajectories using 20 years of data from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study. Respondents were in one of three groups: high, medium (around the mean), or…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Group Membership, Conflict, Marriage
Fawcett, Elizabeth B.; Hawkins, Alan J.; Blanchard, Victoria L.; Carroll, Jason S. – Family Relations, 2010
Previous studies (J. S. Carroll & W. J. Doherty, 2003) have asserted that premarital education programs have a positive effect on program participants. Using meta-analytic methods of current best practices to look across the entire body of published and unpublished evaluation research on premarital education, we found a more complex pattern of…
Descriptors: Marriage, Meta Analysis, Marriage Counseling, Program Effectiveness
Blair, Jonathan M.; Cordova, James V. – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 2009
The efficacy of premarital education programs has been well established; yet few studies have attempted to identify factors that may lead to increased participation. The current study examined questionnaire data from 46 engaged couples to determine whether marital commitment is a unique predictor of both interest in premarital education and intent…
Descriptors: Females, Marriage, Questionnaires, Participation
DeMaria, Rita M. – Family Relations, 2005
Professionals generally believe that couples who choose to attend marriage education programs are not as distressed as are clinical couples and that distressed couples are not good candidates for marriage education. We examined these assumptions in 129 married couples who enrolled in a PAIRS, Practical Application of Intimate Relationship Skills…
Descriptors: Marriage, Marriage Counseling, Marital Instability, Family Life Education
Download full textOliver, Ronald; And Others – 1991
This investigation was the second in a series of empirical studies on marital enrichment training using the Training in Marital Enrichment (TIME) model. In addition to further study of the TIME model, interest was also directed in the current study to more fully clarifying the nature of change in the model by including a measure of the construct…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Counseling Effectiveness, Marital Satisfaction, Marriage
Peer reviewedBetchen, Stephen J. – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1996
Discusses the pursuer-distancer relationship style so as to help counselors recognize this type of interaction and offers several treatment techniques to alleviate it. Demonstrates the relationship between the concepts of parentification and childlike behavior and the pursuer and the distancer. Uses an integrative model of marital therapy as a…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Counseling Techniques, Family Problems, Interpersonal Relationship
Wolcott, Ilene; Glezer, Helen – 1989
A study was conducted of the effectiveness of marriage counseling with respect to marital status and the long-term stability of relationships. Data were gathered from clients of approved Australian marriage counseling agencies (n=540) who took a pre-counseling survey during a 4-week period in October-November 1987 and a post-counseling survey 8…
Descriptors: Counseling Effectiveness, Counseling Services, Family Problems, Foreign Countries
