The present 3-wave, 3-year longitudinal study examined direct and indirect associations between marital quality, parenting, and adolescent internalizing problems, taking into account bidirectional associations between these concepts. Data were used from 428 Dutch families, consisting of 2 biological parents and 2 adolescents with mean ages of 13.4 and 15.2 years (at Time 1). Results from struct...

background: infertility as a crisis can both lead to negative reactions and stress in infertile couples and bring about positive reactions and growth, to which henceforth posttraumatic growth is referred. this study was conducted to model the relation between martial adjustment and posttraumatic growth through the mediation of religious coping strategies in infertile couples. methods: this corr...

OBJECTIVE To study the quality of life, health satisfaction and family impact on caregivers of children with developmental delays in Taiwan. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS The caregivers of children with diagnoses of developmental delays recruited from a teaching hospital in northern Taiwan. METHODS The main caregivers of 48 male and 22 female children with developmental delays we...

BACKGROUND Increasingly, human populations throughout the world are living longer and this trend is developing in sub-Saharan Africa. In developing African countries such as Tanzania, this demographic phenomenon is taking place against a background of poverty and poor health conditions. There has been limited research on how this process of ageing impacts upon the health of older people within ...

BACKGROUND Night and shift work status has been associated with health related quality of life (HRQoL) in economically active women. This study aimed to investigate the association between night or shift work status and HRQoL of economically active women and to further analyze how marital status interplays in the objected relationship. METHODS Data were from the Korea Health Panel, 2011 to 20...

Using a couple-centered approach, the authors examined assortative mating on a broad range of variables in a large (N = 291) sample of newlyweds. Couples showed substantial similarity on attitude-related domains but little on personality-related domains. Similarity was not due to social homogamy or convergence. The authors examined linear and curvilinear effects of spouse similarity on self and...

conclusions the results of this study show that narrative therapy is a suitable approach for solving couples’ conflicts. background conflict among couples is one of the most important issues in the family and often causes wives to refer for therapy. one of the most important therapeutic approaches is narrative therapy, the efficacy of which is investigated in this paper. objectives the aim of t...