How marital status interacts with men's earnings is an important analytic and policy issue, especially in the context of debates in the United States over programs that encourage healthy marriage. This paper generates new findings about the earnings-marriage relationship by estimating the linkages among flows into and out of marriage, work effort, and wage rates. The estimates are based on Nati...

UNLABELLED Researchers have become increasingly interested in the social context of chronic pain conditions. The purpose of this article is to provide an integrated review of the evidence linking marital functioning with chronic pain outcomes including pain severity, physical disability, pain behaviors, and psychological distress. We first present an overview of existing models that identify an...

BACKGROUND Infertility is a complex issue that affects individuals and groups, and also it has serious implications for the mental and social well-being of those involved. The aim of this review was to assess marital relationship in the context of infertility, using data from infertile individuals or both couples. METHODS A literature search was undertaken using multiple databases (Medline, P...

BACKGROUND The divorce rate has been increasing rapidly in Korea; the single rate and trends in divorce are also changing rapidly. This study aimed to examine the relationship between marital status and quality of life (QOL) in an attempt to understand these changes. We also investigated the relationship between QOL and marital status by age group. METHODS We used data from the Community Heal...

BACKGROUND In their pioneering research, Becker, Landes, and Michael (1977) found that beyond age 30 there is a positive relationship between women’s age at first marriage and marital instability. They interpreted this finding as a “poor-match effect” emerging when the biological clock begins to tick. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to ascertain with more recent data whether or not there is evidenc...

This investigation tested whether parenting mediates longitudinal associations between marital conflict and children’s adjustment. Data were drawn from a three-wave study of 283 families with children aged 8 – 16 years at Wave 1. Relations among marital conflict, parenting (behavioral control, psychological autonomy, and warmth), and children’s adjustment (externalizing and internalizing) were ...

this article is the outcome of the study with the purpose of considering the relationship between the criteria of marriage including the romantic love and proportionate marriage with marital satisfaction. in this article, it has been taken advantage of the theory of universal language of love by hendrix and triangular theory of sternberg, yung’s unconscious ideal sample, as well as the theory o...

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of conflict management styles on the quality of the marital relationship. Descriptive research method was descriptive and correlational research design was a path analysis model. Therefore, parents, students, 464 of whom married the Isfahan region of the cluster were single step. This questionnaire marital quality and conflict management style q...