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...

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...

OBJECTIVES The childbirth constitutes a significant event in a woman's life and in the marital/ couple dyad. The changes which follow childbirth require re-organization of previous coping styles and development of new methods of adaptation, which proves difficult. The current study evaluated to what extent the development of postpartum depression symptoms in new mothers was associated with thei...

BACKGROUND Marital circumstances have been indicated to be a salient risk factor for disproportionately high prevalence of depression and anxiety among Pakistani women. Although social support is a known buffer of psychological distress, there is no clear evidence as to how different aspects of marital relations interact and associate with depression and anxiety in the lives of Pakistani marrie...

BACKGROUND There is little empirical literature on the effects of infertility on marital relationships in Ghana. This study sought to examine the effects of infertility on marital relationship among fertility clients at a Public Hospital in Accra, Ghana. RESULTS The study revealed that infertility negatively affected the sexual life of participants as they generally reported that even though ...

McCullough, Rachal, et al.'s (1998) social-psychological framework of forgiveness informed a longitudinal study that examined the extent to which marital forgiveness is determined by social-cognitive (the offended spouse's rumination and emotional empathy) and relationship variables (the quality of the relationship in which the offense took place). In the study, 119 husbands and 124 wives from ...