Previous research has shown marital status and marital quality are consistent predictors of health outcomes, including cardiovascular disease and mortality. To better understand the relationship among marital status, marital quality, and cardiovascular health, we examined how marital status and marital quality were associated with an early indicator of deteriorating cardiovascular health, high-...

OBJECTIVE: To find out the mediating role of coping between factors obesity and marital relationship in women with obesity. METHODS: This analytical cross-sectional study was conducted from May to November 2019 at various universities (Lahore College for Women University, Riphah International University Central Punjab) hospitals (Services Hospital, Jinnah Hospital Shalimar Hospital) Lahore, Pak...

The Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) (Bodenmann, 1997a; 2000b) is based both upon stress and coping theory and research on couples. In addition to traditional elements of couples programs (e.g., communication and problem solving skills), CCET also addresses individual and dyadic coping in promoting marital satisfaction and reducing marital distress. CCET enjoys good consumer acceptanc...

The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship between specific coping strategies and problem-solving/communication behaviors in close relationships. The sample consisted of 72 couples who completed the Dyadic Adjustment Scale and the Marital Coping Questionnaire and who also participated in a filmed 30-minute discussion where they had to solve a relational problem. Observ...

Marriage is the central relationship for most adults and has beneficial effects for health. At the same time, troubled marriages have negative health consequences. This review outlines the physiological pathways through which marital relationships influence health based on a stress/social support model. In addition, we review recent findings suggesting that unhappy marriages are associated with...

An ongoing question remains for family researchers: Why does a positive association between cohabitation and marital dissolution exist when one of the primary reasons to cohabit is to test relationship compatibility? Drawing on recently collected data from the 2006 - 2008 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examined whether premarital cohabitation experiences were associated with mari...

abstract the present study examined the relationship between personality traits and marital adjustment in methadone maintained drug addicts and non addicts. the population of the study consists of male (n-52) addicts and non-addicts (n=52), randomly selected through sampling procedure. cloninger’s temperament and character inventory questionnaire (tci-56) and dyadic adjustment scale (das) were ...