Conflict Management among Malay Married Couples: An Analysis on Their Strategies & Tactics

From vigilance to violence: mate retention tactics in married couples.

Although much research has explored the adaptive problems of mate selection and mate attraction, little research has investigated the adaptive problem of mate retention. We tested several evolutionary psychological hypotheses about the determinants of mate retention in 214 married people. We assessed the usage of 19 mate retention tactics ranging from vigilance to violence. Key hypothesized fin...

Pension plan participation among married couples.

We present descriptive statistics on pension participation and types of pensions among married couples, using data from the 1996/2008 Panels of the Survey of Income and Program Participation and Social Security administrative records. Previous research has focused on pension coverage by marital status, but has not examined couples as a unit. Because couples usually share income, viewing them as...

Relationship Quality among Cohabiting versus Married Couples

Conflict in married couples: personality predictors of anger and upset.

This research had two central goals: to examine the role of personality in (a) performing actions that anger spouses, and (b) eliciting anger-provoking actions from spouses. Personality data on a sample of married persons (N = 214) were obtained from three sources--self-report, spouse-observer report, and independent interviewers' reports. In a separate session, subjects recorded which of 147 u...

Conflict ln Married Couples: Personality Predictors of Anger and Upset

This research had two central goals: to examine the role of personality in (a) performing actions that anger spouses, and (b) eliciting angerprovoking actions from spouses. Personality data on a sample of married persons {N = 214) were obtained from three sources—self-report, spouseobserver report, and independent interviewers' reports. In a separate session, subjects recorded which of 147 upse...