conclusions in veterans' family, psychological health of the veterans and marital adjustment of the parents have a significant relationship with their children's quality of life and happiness. results global severity index (gsi) scores of veterans and veteran's age were inversely correlated with the scores of children's quality of life, while marital adjustment of parents and number of rooms in...

this paper aim to study effect of women's employment on family stability, compare dual-worker family with single-worker family. statistical population of quantitative cross-sectional survey was married in tehran. selected 1736 samples and was analyzed. multi-stage cluster sampling method was used and due to the different economic and social classes of people, selected 50 domains in tehran....

This paper examines the effects of happiness on the sex gap in life expectancy. Utilizing a cross-country data set, it first inspects the reverse effect of the life expectancy gap on happiness and demonstrates that the life expectancy gap negatively affects happiness through the composition of marital status. Taking this reverse causality into account, it shows that happiness is significant on ...

Under what conditions do spouses have more “voice” or bargaining power to get what they want from their marriages? The objective of this research project is to explore how spouses’ economic resources affect marital bargains and outcomes. The main hypothesis is that spouses with more resources are able to strike bargains about marital roles that they perceive to be more fair and that lead to mor...

The authors examined associations between marital quality and both general life satisfaction and experienced (momentary) well-being among older husbands and wives, the relative importance of own versus spouse's marital appraisals for well-being, and the extent to which the association between own marital appraisals and well-being is moderated by spouse's appraisals. Data are from the 2009 Disab...

The objective was to identify factors associated with happiness in the elderly. A cross-sectional, population-based study was conducted in 1,431 elderly under the ISA-Camp 2008 project. The survey used a two-stage probabilistic cluster sample. Prevalence of happiness was measured over time according to socio-demographics variables, health behaviors, and health conditions. High prevalence of hap...