It remains unclear whether the frequency of marital coitus does in fact decline universally across the life course, what shape that decay normally takes, and what best accounts for it: increasing marriage duration, women's age or age of their partners. Using cross-sectional Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) data of 91,744 non-abstaining women in their first marriage, a generalized linear mode...

It is well-known that early life conditions as well as marital status a¤ect health and mortality later in life. In this paper we analyze the interplay between these determinants of high-age mortality. First, we study the impact of economic conditions early in life on the individual rate of getting married. Secondly, we examine the protective e¤ect of marriage and, in particular, to what extent ...

Stress is unavoidable in everyday life and it can effect on marital relationship. Social support especially from emotionally closed persons as a protective factor can help individuals to deal with stress and buffers the negative effects of life stress on marital satisfaction. In the present cross-sectional study we investigated the relationship between social and spousal support and marital sat...

background: when a couple confronts cancer, there is a major impact on their psychosocial life. marital life and satisfaction with that are important factors in the quality of life of breast cancer patient. the aim of this research was to predict marital satisfaction based on hardiness in women with breast cancer methods: a total of 100 women with breast cancer participated in this study and co...

Sexual satisfaction, marital quality, and marital instability have been studied over the life course of couples in many previous studies, but less in relation to each other. On the basis of the longitudinal data from 283 married couples, the authors used autoregressive models in this study to examine the causal sequences among these 3 constructs for husbands and wives separately. Results of cro...

OBJECTIVES The pathways linking spousal health to marital quality in later life have been little examined at the population level. We develop a conceptual model that links married older adults' physical health and that of their spouse to positive and negative dimensions of marital quality via psychological well-being of both partners and their sexual activity. METHODS We use data from 1,464 o...

background: marital satisfaction is the most important and fundamental factor in stability and continuity of couples′ life. it exists when the situation in marital relationships is in agreement with its expectation. while couples can increase their satisfaction level in marital life, the family remains safe. therefore the effect of sexual education on the growth of marital satisfaction and its ...