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Katzev, Aphra R.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1994
Examined data on 1,023 married women from 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households. Found that mothers with at least one boy reported significantly lower propensity to divorce compared to mothers with only girls. Fathers in families with boys were more engaged with children, which was associated with mothers perceiving less disadvantage…
Descriptors: Daughters, Decision Making, Divorce, Fathers
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Hoffman, Kristi L.; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1994
Used survey data from 619 husbands residing in Bangkok, Thailand, to assess their use of physical force against their wives. Results provide strong support for importance of socioeconomic status, marital instability, and verbal marital conflict as predictors of Thai wife abuse. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Aggression, Battered Women, Conflict, Family Violence
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Jekielek, Susan M. – Social Forces, 1998
National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data on 1,640 children aged 6-14 indicate that children's anxiety and depression/withdrawal were increased by prior parental marital conflict or disruption. Children remaining in high-conflict environments generally exhibited lower levels of well-being than children with high-conflict experience whose parents…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Depression (Psychology), Divorce, Emotional Response
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Saltzman, Kasey M.; Holden, George W.; Holahan, Charles J. – Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 2005
We examined the psychological and physiological functioning of a community sample of children exposed to marital violence, comparing them to a clinical comparison group without marital violence exposure. Results replicated past findings of elevated levels of trauma symptomatology in this population. Further, children exposed to marital violence…
Descriptors: Metabolism, Anatomy, Family Violence, Marital Instability
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Shadish, William R.; Baldwin, Scott A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
This meta-analysis summarizes results from 30 randomized experiments that compare behavioral marital therapy with no-treatment control with distressed couples. Results showed that behavioral marital therapy is significantly more effective than no treatment (d=.585). Although behavioral marital therapy research studies tend to be conducted under…
Descriptors: Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring
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Schumacher, Julie A.; Leonard, Kenneth E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Marital adjustment, verbal aggression, and physical aggression have long been associated in the marital literature, but the nature of their associations remains unclear. In this study, the authors examined these 3 constructs as risk factors for physical aggression during the first 2 years of marriage in 634 couples recruited as they applied for…
Descriptors: Marriage, Risk, Aggression, Spouses
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Atkins, David C.; Eldridge, Kathleen A.; Baucom, Donald H.; Christensen, Andrew – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Infidelity is a common issue with which distressed couples and their therapists grapple. However, there are no data on the efficacy of commonly used therapies to treat couples in which there has been an affair. In the present exploratory study, the authors examined the therapy outcomes of a sample of infidelity couples (n=19) who had participated…
Descriptors: Therapy, Marriage Counseling, Marital Instability, Deception
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Papp, Lauren M.; Mark Cummings, E.; Schermerhorn, Alice C. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2004
A community sample of 295 mothers, fathers, and children M age 11-14 years, SD2.32 years rated marital distress, maternal and paternal psychological symptoms, and child adjustment. The predicted direct relations between these family and child variables were demonstrated for both fathers and mothers. Tests of pathways among these variables were…
Descriptors: Puberty, Mothers, Fathers, Parent Child Relationship
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Stets, Jan E.; Burke, Peter J. – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2005
In this research we study the identity verification process and its effects in marriage. Drawing on identity control theory, we hypothesize that a lack of verification in the spouse identity (1) threatens stable self-meanings and interaction patterns between spouses, and (2) challenges a (nonverified) spouse's perception of control over the…
Descriptors: Spouses, Marriage, Marital Instability, Self Concept
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Ellis, Bruce J.; Essex, Marilyn J. – Child Development, 2007
Life history theorists have proposed that humans have evolved to be sensitive to specific features of early childhood environments and that exposure to different environments biases children toward development of different reproductive strategies, including differential pubertal timing. The current research provides a longitudinal test of this…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Metabolism, Adolescent Development, Body Composition
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Gerard, Jean M.; Krishnakumar, Ambika; Buehler, Cheryl – Journal of Family Issues, 2006
Contemporaneous and longitudinal associations among marital conflict, parent-child relationship quality, and youth maladjustment were examined using data from the National Survey of Families and Households. Analyses were based on 551 married families with a child age 5 to 11 years at Wave 1. The concurrent association between marital conflict and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Conflict, Parent Child Relationship, Marriage
Lucal, Betsy – 1992
A number of factors came together in the 1970s to create a social problem called "battered wives". Then, beginning in 1977, there was an attempt to create a social problem called "battered husbands." So far, such attempts have been unsuccessful. This analysis compares the issue of battered husbands and battered wives to…
Descriptors: Battered Women, Family Problems, Family Violence, Marital Instability
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Stetson, Dorothy M.; Wright, Gerald C., Jr. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1975
Explores the extent to which state divorce laws have an independent effect on divorce rates. Two findings, using regression analysis, are (1) a strong relationship exists between permissiveness of divorce laws and divorce rates; (2) the relationship remains when effects of variations in economic development and social costs are controlled. (Author)
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Divorce, Family Problems, Laws
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Marsella, Anthony J.; And Others – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 1974
The Parental Attitude Research Instrument (PARI) was administered to 34 wives of nuclear submarine personnel under counterbalanced conditions of father presence and absence. Significant differences were found on seven subscales as a function of the father's status. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitude Change, Child Rearing, Family Structure
Cohen, George M.; And Others – 1986
This document contains papers from a conference which targeted the needs and interests of counselors working with families. Individual papers in the book include: (1) "Economic, Social and Political Influences on Families" (Lynda Henley Walters); (2) "Family Structures and Stresses: A Counseling Perspective" (Edwin Herr); (3) "Cultural Diversity…
Descriptors: Counseling Techniques, Counselor Role, Counselors, Family Counseling
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