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Wiggins, James D.; Lederer, Doris A. – American Mental Health Counselors Association Journal, 1984
Investigated antecedents of marital infidelity for individuals (N=59) involved with coworkers or others. Data suggested that persons involved with coworkers had more satisfying marriages and scored higher on the Compatibility Index than those involved with others. The number of liaisons was not correlated with age or age at marriage. (JAC)
Descriptors: Congruence (Psychology), Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction, Predictor Variables

Emery, Robert E.; O'Leary, K. Daniel – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1982
In 50 behavior problem children it was found that marital discord, as predicted, was most strongly related to conduct problems in boys, boys and girls perceived parental marital discord with equal and moderate accuracy, and children's feelings of nonacceptance were not significantly related to ratings of marital discord. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Elementary Secondary Education, Marital Instability, Peer Acceptance

Jacobson, Neil S.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1982
Tested the hypothesis that distressed spouses are more reactive to immediate events than nondistressed couples. Couples recorded positive, negative and neutral events and satisfaction levels. Distressed couples reported lower rates of positive behavior and that marital satisfaction depended more on frequency of recent positive or negative events.…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Interaction, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Instability

Frisbie, W. Parker; And Others – Social Forces, 1980
Cohort analysis was used to compare changes in the prevalence of marital instability among Mexican American women with those observed among Black and Anglo women in the southwestern United States. Recent (1960-70) trends were found to be toward increased divergence in levels of marital instability among these three groups. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Blacks, Cohort Analysis, Females, Marital Instability

Johnson, Frank C.; Johnson, May R. – Journal of Divorce, 1980
In the past two decades, several fertility variables have been shown to have an effect on marital stability: presence or absence of children, child spacing, birth timing, and total number of children. This paper studies the effect on marital stability of the planning of fertility. (Author)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Divorce, Family Planning, Marital Instability

Amato, Paul R. – Family Relations, 2003
Although Judith Wallerstein's research on children with divorced parents has been influential, many quantitative family scholars have criticized her methods and conclusions. This article provides examples from the Marital Instability Over the Life Course study to illustrate the magnitude of divorce effects and concludes with a call for a…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Divorce, Emotional Problems, Marital Instability

Ryan, Barbara; Plutzer, Eric – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1989
Surveyed married women obtaining abortions to examine assumptions concerning spousal notification held by federal courts. Results suggest that the assumption that notification and discussion promote marital harmony is plausible for only circumscribed subset of women whose marriages are already harmonious. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Abortions, Family Relationship, Females, Legal Problems

Booth, Alan; Johnson, David – Journal of Family Issues, 1988
Examined four models of ways premarital cohabitation may affect marital quality using interview data from a national probability sample of 2,033 married persons. Found cohabitation was negatively related to marital interaction and positively related to marital disagreement, proneness to divorce, and the probability of divorce in nonminority…
Descriptors: Cohabitation, Divorce, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction

Greenstein, Theodore N. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
A study of 3,284 married women hypothesizes that nontraditional working women are more likely to experience marital disruption than traditional working women. Number of hours of paid employment per week was negatively related to marital stability for women holding nontraditional gender ideologies but not for women with traditional views. (JPS)
Descriptors: Attitudes, Employed Women, Higher Education, Marital Instability

Renick, Mari Jo; And Others – Family Relations, 1992
Describes Prevention and Relationship Enhancement Program (PREP), empirically based intervention program to prevent marital distress and divorce. Presents results of longitudinal studies indicating PREP's short and long-term effectiveness. Discusses clinical implications, current dissemination efforts in United States and Europe, and future…
Descriptors: Interpersonal Communication, Interpersonal Relationship, Intervention, Marital Instability

DeMaris, Alfred; Rao, K. Vaninadha – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1992
Investigated relationship between cohabitation and subsequent marital dissolution among 3,300 adults in United States. Consistent with results for Sweden, found that cohabitation in United States was associated with greater hazard of dissolution even after counting time spent in unmarried cohabitation as part of marital duration. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Adults, At Risk Persons, Cohabitation, Divorce

Jacobson, Neil S.; Addis, Michael E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993
Discusses outcome and process research on couple therapy and integrates articles in journal's special section on couples and couples therapy into the discussion. Discussion of strengths and weaknesses of various designs concludes that within-model comparisons have been more productive in producing knowledge than between-model comparisons. Includes…
Descriptors: Marital Instability, Marriage, Marriage Counseling, Research and Development

Mackey, Richard A.; O'Brien, Bernard A. – Social Work, 1998
Explores how couples cope with marital conflict from the early years of their relationships to the present time. Focuses on conflict management styles from face-to-face confrontation to avoidance, as well as gender and ethnicity influences on styles of coping with conflict. Implications for social work practice are discussed. (Author/MKA)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Coping, Cultural Differences, Marital Instability
Rogers, Stacy J. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2004
This article delineates and assesses the evidence for four perspectives that have guided previous research on the relationship between wives economic resources and marital stability. Hypotheses from these perspectives were tested using event history methods and 1980-1997 panel data for 1,704 individuals from the Marital Instability Over the Life…
Descriptors: Spouses, Family Income, Divorce, Marital Instability
Teachman, Jay D. – Journal of Family Issues, 2004
In this article, the author uses data from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth to examine the impact of childhood living arrangements on the characteristics of marriages formed by women between 1970 and 1989.The focus is on sociodemographic characteristics of marriage that may be taken to indicate a heightened risk of marital stress or…
Descriptors: Marriage, Females, Marital Instability, Children