his study determines married couples’ experiences that negatively affected their lives and relationships they have had difficulty forgiving, what did to overcome these incidents, how reacted each other. The also examines the variables predicting spouses’ marital satisfaction. employs a nested mixed methods design in which 289 individuals living Turkey participated. Of participants, 97 stated ha...

This study investigated the direction of possible causal effects between attributions for negative partner behavior and marital satisfaction and tested whether any effects are mediated by efficacy expectations regarding marital conflict. Couples married for 15-20 months completed measures of attribution and satisfaction at Time 1 and at Time 3 (18 months later). At Time 2 (6 months after Time 1...

We studied the impact of two types of dementia on marital satisfaction and on the emotional language spouses use during conflictive marital interactions. Fifteen frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and 16 Alzheimer’s disease (AD) patient-caregiver couples, as well as 21 control couples, discussed a relationship problem in a laboratory setting. Marital satisfaction was assessed via questionnaire, and ...

The present study was designed to compare marital satisfaction in mothers with normal children and mothers with mentally retarded children and to establish the role of sexual self-esteem as a forecaster of marital satisfaction in mothers in Qaen, Iran (2014). 120 mothers were participated in this study. 60 mothers with mentally retarded children were selected through census and another 60 mothe...

BACKGROUND Obesity is one of the most common chronic diseases with important medical effects, as well as mental and social health problems. Bariatric surgery is one of the most effective treatments of morbid obesity. OBJECTIVES Because of the possible psychological changes, and its effects on weight loss after surgery, the current study aimed to compare marital satisfaction and self-confidenc...

Retirement satisfaction was predicted from the emotional qualities of pre-retirement marital interaction in 49 male (Mage = 63) and 31 female (Mage = 61) retirees. In 1989, we measured physiological, behavioral, and subjective aspects of emotion while spouses discussed a conflict in their marriage. Five years later, we assessed retirement satisfaction for spouses who had retired in the interven...

objective: one of the most important goals of marriage is the will to attain marital satisfaction. marital ‎satisfaction is of prime importance and has the highest effect on the stability and failure of the ‎marriage. this study aimed to investigate marital satisfaction in the women who referred to ‎gorgan health centers.‎ method: this was a descriptive-analytical study conducted in gorgan. two...

abstract background: infertility and the reactions of people towards it can lead to psychological disorders which have negative effects on the life of young couples. therefore, this study aims to comparatively analyze the level of mental health, happiness, inferiority feelings, sexual satisfaction and marital conflict in fertile and infertile women in kermanshah. methods: this cross-sectional s...

This paper studies the relationship of parental resources to the marital transitions of children. It extends past research by explicitly distinguishing various dimensions of parental resources and by taking parental preferences directly into account. We test models in which parental resources have additive effects on the timing of marriage and models in which parental resources interact with pa...