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Rubin, Lisa D.; Price, James H. – Journal of School Health, 1979
Stages of adjustment for children and adolescents trying to cope with their parents' divorce are delineated, and the emotional processes involved with divorce itself are discussed. (LH)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Divorce

Christensen, Andrew; Nies, Douglas C. – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1980
Couples completed questionnaires designed to test assumptions of the Spouse Observation Checklist. The assumption that the checklist represents the universe of marital pleasing and displeasing events received some support. Data did not support the assumption that couples can reliably observe their own behavior. (Author)
Descriptors: Behavior Rating Scales, Correlation, Marital Instability, Marriage Counseling
Miaoulis, Chris N.; Gutsch, Kenneth U. – Southern Journal of Educational Research, 1979
Two marriage counseling approaches were explored: (1) couples received counseling one hour per week for an indefinite time period; (2) couples were seen two hours biweekly for five visits. Couples receiving biweekly counseling reported more satisfaction and optimism and tended to be more committed to the counseling relationship. (DS)
Descriptors: Adult Counseling, Attitude Change, Comparative Analysis, Counseling

White, Lynn K. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1979
Demonstrates that levels of illegitimacy are related to costs of illegitimacy. Illegitimacy is strongly associated with the opportunity structure for women. When marriage is a relatively temporary guarantee of support, incentives to marital childbearing are less. This is supported by consistently positive association between marital and nonmarital…
Descriptors: Costs, Females, Illegitimate Births, Marital Instability

Snyder, Douglas K. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1979
Studies involving couples focused on the development of a Marital Satisfaction Inventory (MSI). Correlational analyses confirm that measures of communication are the best single predictors of global marital satisfaction. Profile analyses demonstrate the ability of the MSI to discriminate between couples in therapy and a matched control group.…
Descriptors: Emotional Experience, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Instability

Edwards, Marie – Personnel and Guidance Journal, 1977
If counselors can stretch themselves further to reach into the community to share knowledge with other institutions and can together set up programs to inspire greater self-esteem and self-respect, they might be able to significantly reduce the divorce rate by raising the status of singlehood. (Author)
Descriptors: Counseling Services, Counselor Role, Helping Relationship, Individual Needs

Matthews, Lisa S.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1996
Examines the relationship between the quality of marital interaction, both as perceived by spouses and as reported by outside observers, and marital instability and divorce in long-time married couples (n=436). Finds that hostility and marital warmth were fairly accurate predictors of which couples would divorce or be extremely stable or unstable.…
Descriptors: Adults, Conflict, Divorce, Hostility

Henning, Kris; And Others – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1997
A survey of 1,452 undergraduate students was used to examine the long-term psychological impact of witnessing interparental physical aggression during childhood. The 203 students who reported witnessing at least one such incident reported higher levels of current psychological distress. Negative effects increased when a parent of the same sex was…
Descriptors: Aggression, College Students, Emotional Development, Emotional Problems

Moffitt, Terrie E.; And Others – Psychological Assessment, 1997
Whether partners provide congruent reports about abuse in their relationship was studied with 360 couples. Findings suggest that reports of abuse can be aggregated to form internally consistent scales that show strong interpartner agreement, and that either abuser or victim reports are suitable for research use. (SLD)
Descriptors: Battered Women, Emotional Abuse, Family Violence, Interrater Reliability

Beach, Steven R. H.; And Others – American Journal of Family Therapy, 1993
Examined negative affect among 349 adults. Indices of salient social support and salient interpersonal stress irrespective of source were related to level of negative affective symptoms. Marital relationship was most frequently named source of support, but coworkers were named equally often as source of interpersonal stress. Marital satisfaction…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Employee Attitudes, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Instability

Cohan, Catherine L.; Bradbury, Thomas N. – Psychological Assessment, 1994
Psychometric properties of the Marital Coping Inventory (MCI) were evaluated by administering it and other measures to 120 newlywed couples, by observing spouses discussing marital problems, and by readministering the inventory to 104 spouses after 6 months. Results clarify coping in marriage. Implications for use of the instrument are discussed.…
Descriptors: Coping, Evaluation Methods, Marital Instability, Marital Satisfaction

Coohey, Carol – Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 1995
Comparison of 69 neglectful mothers with a demographically comparable sample of 138 non-neglectful mothers found that neglectful mothers exchanged fewer resources with both their partners and mothers, were more likely to state that their mothers had few positive characteristics, had known their partners for less time, and were less likely to be…
Descriptors: Child Neglect, Grandparents, Interpersonal Relationship, Marital Instability

O'Brien, Mary; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1991
Examined cognitive and emotional reactions to family discussions as experienced by 8- to 11-year-old sons (n=35) and their mothers from homes with physically aggressive (PA), verbally aggressive (VA), and low-conflict (LC) marital relationships. Sons of PA couples demonstrated more self-interference, self-distraction, and arousal and less…
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Cognitive Processes, Emotional Response

Guttman, Herta A. – Journal of Marital and Family Therapy, 1991
Notes when long-standing marriage suddenly becomes conflictual, one precipitant can be the recent death of parent on one of partners. Claims main goal of therapy is to facilitate bereaved partner's mourning and choosing an effective therapeutic method depends on couple's capacity for mutual empathy and support and their need for insight.…
Descriptors: Adult Children, Death, Foreign Countries, Grief

Montgomery, Marilyn J.; DeBell, Camille; Wilkins, Judith – Family Journal: Counseling and Therapy for Couples and Families, 1998
Presents a method of working with both parents and the child that provides supportive therapy for the child while intervening with the parents to provide developmental information, identify marital issues the child might be mirroring, offer benign interpretations of the child's difficulties to counter often-held anxious views of the problem, and…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Child Development, Counseling Techniques, Evaluation