I use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to examine the durationdependence of relationship quality for cohabitors and marrieds and to evaluate whether the presence of children or prior union experience account for or moderate the effect of duration. The present study demonstrates that despite their short length, the quality of cohabiting unions varies with time. Cohabitors...

The complete understanding of marital stability is hindered by limitations theory and method, especially investigation on female journalists. purpose the current study was to test effect religiosity commitment stability, assessing Indonesian This research used a quantitative approach with multiple regression analysis methods. sample this involved 200 married journalists residing in Jakarta were...

This study examines the role that marital attributions play in the relationship between the occurrence of stressful life events and marital quality. Using a stress adaptation theory framework, data from 58 couples were used to test for the presence of a moderating relationship. The results supported the moderational model, indicating that the marital quality of couples who make relationship-enh...

objective: the aim of this study was to determine the associates of marital relationship in mustard exposed veterans. materials and methods: two hundred ninety two married iranian mustard exposed veterans, who had been exposed to single high dose mustard gas in iraq-iran war, were assessed for marital adjustment with revised dyadic adjustment scale (rdas). census sampling was done. the patients...

This study was to examine the effect of triangulation on depression in children. Clinical samples and nonclinical samples were taken from Utah and Illinois. Families were assessed for marital satisfaction and stability, family triangulation, and children’s depression levels by the Marital Adjustment Test, Marital Status Inventory, Nuclear Family Triangulation, and Children’s Depression Inventor...

The majority of adults sleep with a partner, and for a significant proportion of couples, sleep problems and relationship problems co-occur, yet there has been little systematic study of the association between close relationships and sleep. The association between sleep and relationships is likely to be bi-directional and reciprocal-the quality of close relationships influences sleep and sleep...

BACKGROUND Chronic pain is associated with increased stress in families and has its own impact on the relationship between members of the family. Among couples, if one of them suffers from chronic pain, this may influence marital satisfaction in both of them and given the importance of marital satisfaction in the prediction of successful treatment outcome, it is important to investigate pain an...