Objective: given the prevalence of divorce and the growing trend of marital problems, it is necessary to scrutinythe factors affecting the interpersonal relationships of couples. Therefore, this study  conducted to investigate the mediating role of self-compassion in explaining the causal relationship between communication skills and emotional expression with the empathy of divorce applicants. ...

Objective: Malfunction in the intimacy, marital conflict and early maladaptive schemas have always been considered as one of the principal reasons of couples’ divorce. Employment of effective therapies may help in the improvement of couples’ problems and decrease of divorce. Methods: The present research employed a single-subject research design and selected 3 women suing for divorce from among...

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the effect of psychological traits, in particular personality, on the formation and dissolution of marital and cohabiting relationships. Personality traits have substantial effects on propensities to marry and divorce. Changing patterns of selection into and out of domestic partnerships indicate that the determinants of ...

More than a century of empirical evidence links marital status to mortality. However, the hazards of dying associated with long-term marital trajectories and contributing risk factors are largely unknown. The authors used 1992–2006 prospective data from a cohort of US adults to investigate the impact of current marital status, marriage timing, divorce and widow transitions, and marital duration...

Divorce law changes made in the 1970s affected marital formation, dissolution, and bargaining within marriage. By altering the terms of the marital contract these legal changes impacted the incentives for women to enter and remain in the labor force. Whereas earlier work had suggested that the impact of unilateral divorce on female employment depended critically on laws governing property divis...

Literature on effects of marital conflict and divorce on child development has long wondered 1) whether divorce followed by parents’ marital conflict exerts distinguishable impacts on children and 2) whether marital conflict is more detrimental to involved children than divorce per se. We address these questions using the Korea Youth Panel Study-Elementary School Students that traced students f...