In this paper, we use a two-period one-to-one matching model with incomplete information to examine the effect of changes in divorce costs on marital dissolution. Each individual who has a nontransferable expected utility about the quality of each potential marriage decides whether to marry or to remain single at the beginning of the first period. Individuals married in the first period learn t...

The authors proposed a model of depressive symptoms in early marriage in which relationship confidence, defined as perceived couple-level efficacy to manage conflicts and maintain a healthy relationship, mediates the effect of negative marital interactions on depressive symptoms. The model was tested in a sample of 139 couples assessed prior to marriage and 1 year later. As predicted, relations...

To what extent psychiatric morbidity and personality factors contribute to marital disharmony and decision to divorce is still an unanswered question in Indian setting. This study was undertaken with aims to find out (1) the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in persons seeking divorce; (2) the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity in persons who had good marital adjustment; (3) the nature of ps...

Abstract Late-life divorce is increasingly common in many Western countries, however, studies on this transition remain scarce. The purpose of article to study attributed reasons for late-life divorce, and if any life phase-typical aspects can be identified these attributions. Qualitative interviews were carried out with Swedish men women aged 62–82, who after the age 60 had divorced from a cro...

We develop a collective household model with spousal matching in which there exists marital gains to assortative matching and marriage quality for each couple is revealed ex post. Marriages, intra-marital allocations and divorce are all determined endogenously. Changes in the laws that regulate property division in divorce affect existing couples and couples-to-be differently. For existing coup...

Marriage is a task of individual development. Conflicts, problems, and mismatches expectations must be faced in marriage. Couples who are unable to resolve these issues will more likely choose separation or divorce. There high divorce rates Indonesia. Pre-marital guidance part efforts prepare prospective married couples achieve the expected quality Currently, pre-marital carried out conventiona...

As pornography use becomes more commonplace in the United States, and increasingly so among younger cohorts, a growing literature is considering its potential connection to key social and cultural institutions. The current study examined the relationship between pornography use and one such institution: marriage. We drew on three-wave longitudinal data from 2006 to 2014 General Social Survey pa...

The author, basing on literature and her own experiences in conducting marital/couples, presents the indications and contraindications for this form of therapy for both recipients of the therapy and therapists. Insufficient motivation to change relationships and behaviours, the threat of divorce, violence, deep emotional and/or psychological disturbances in one or both spouses, the engagement o...