OBJECTIVE To learn how couples stratified by gender role preference (GRP) manage food preferences. DESIGN One-time individual semistructured qualitative interview with each partner in a couple representing 1 of 3 GRP pairings. SETTINGS/PARTICIPANTS Volunteers were recruited using advertising and snowball sampling and met the criteria of both parents living at home, wife no older than 40 yea...

Background: Type 2 diabetes is a heterogeneous disease that results from a different interaction between genetic factors and environment. Married couples can have concordant health status. Objectives: To investigate diabetes concordance among married couples. Materials and Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted between May and November 2012. The study included 270 married couples (since...

Several studies showed associations among marital variables and panic disorder with agoraphobia (PDA) symptomatology. However, very few explored this issue using behavioural coding of couples’ interactions. We www.ccsenet.org/ijps International Journal of Psychological Studies Vol. 3, No. 2; December 2011 ISSN 1918-7211 E-ISSN 1918-722X 108 conducted this study to investigate whether observed m...

Are economic resources related to relationship quality among young couples, and to what extent does this vary by relationship type? To answer these questions, we estimated regression models predicting respondent reports of conflict and affection in cohabiting and married partner relationships using the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, 1997 (NLSY97, N = 2,841) and the National Longitudinal ...

This study aimed to address whether the predictors of sexual satisfaction within marriage in western societies (marital sexual satisfaction and frequency of sex) were applicable in a Chinese society. The research questions were: (1) what were the factors that influence sexual satisfaction for married Hong Kong Chinese couples?; (2) what were the factors that influence frequency of sex for marri...

BACKGROUND Sub-Saharan Africa has a high rate of HIV infection, most of which is attributable to heterosexual transmission. Few attempts have been made to assess the extent of HIV transmission within marriages, and HIV-prevention efforts remain focused on abstinence and non-marital sex. We aimed to estimate the proportion of heterosexual transmission of HIV which occurs within married or cohabi...

The aim of this paper is to identify the sources of time use differences between married and cohabiting couples and to answer the question whether there is a “selection into specialization”, i.e. whether cohabiting partners who agree on a (traditional) division of work simply have a higher probability of getting married. In a non-parametric matching approach, we compare couples who get married ...

BACKGROUND In many countries in Asia, the HIV epidemic is in a concentrated phase, with high prevalence in certain risk groups, such as men who inject drugs. There is also a rapid increase of HIV among women. The latter might be due to high levels of sero-discordant couples and increasing transmission from male to female partners over time. METHODS All adult married patients initiating antire...

Optimal Income Taxation of Married Couples: An Empirical Analysis of Joint and Individual Taxation In this paper we develop a discrete model of optimal taxation of married couples and empirically discuss the optimality of income taxation for this group. To this end, we derive the social welfare function which guarantees that joint taxation of married couples is optimal. We will contrast this we...