Data are used from a random sample of African American families in impoverished Chicago neighborhoods to address two questions: How well do modeling, supervision, and marital transition hypotheses explain the relationship between family structure and early sexual debut and pregnancy for disadvantaged Black female adolescents? Do higher levels of social support from parents and neighborhood adul...

BACKGROUND Evidence for the effects of marital status and marital status change on physical health is equivocal. METHOD Structural equation models examined whether marital status predicted physical health. Six groups were examined simultaneously: married (M); widowed (W); divorced (D); never married (NM); newly widowed (NW); and newly divorced (ND). There were four annual measures (T1-T4). Bo...

A human is a social being, who wants to achieve relations with other people. The most common form of close emotional relationships in adulthood marriage. married relationship can be implied various ways and, although marriage lasts as constant attachment, contemporary crisis. Actual circumstances place challenges before life. In this work we have focused on some aspects which recognized potenti...

OBJECTIVE Both poor marital quality and sleep disturbances are risk factors for a broad range of mental and physical health morbidities. The purpose of the study was to investigate bidirectional relationships between marital quality and sleep disturbance and the moderating effects of age and gender. METHODS Data from 1081 married individuals who participated in the Korean Genome and Epidemiol...

It has been demonstrated for many pre-industrial populations that the age at marriage, or marriage duration, influences age-specific marital fertility but the reason for this remains unclear. Among the several mechanisms that may be responsible, the following are often cited: secondary sterility or increased subfecundity associated with parity; declining coital frequency; the age difference bet...

This paper argues that the economics of the family can be much enriched by incorporating recent developments in evolutionary biology, animal behavior studies, cultural evolution, anthropology, and game theory. Evolutionary foundations of sympathy between relatives are explored. Applications of the theory of cultural evolution to the demographic transition and to wealth transfers between generat...

The authors examined associations between marital quality and both general life satisfaction and experienced (momentary) well-being among older husbands and wives, the relative importance of own versus spouse's marital appraisals for well-being, and the extent to which the association between own marital appraisals and well-being is moderated by spouse's appraisals. Data are from the 2009 Disab...

Objectives This study was coperinducted with the aim of prediction of marital satisfaction based on emotional intelligence for postmenopausal women. Methods This cross-sectional study was the descriptive-correlation and with a sample size of 134 people to predict marital satisfaction based on emotional intelligence for postmenopausal women was conducted in the Borujen city. The subjects were ...

BACKGROUND Marital status is associated with survival. PURPOSE The aims of this study are to evaluate marital history and timing on mortality during midlife, test the role of pre-marital personality, and quantify the role of health risk behaviors. METHODS Cox proportional hazard models were run with varying classifications of marital history and sets of covariates. RESULTS In fully adjust...