We examine the literature on marital discord to identify potential indicators. Welldocumented indicators are found both in the interpersonal and intra-individual realms.Personality factors and other abiding individual difference variables appear to play a rolein the development of marital discord. An integrative model is offered, highlighting thepotential for interpersonal, ...

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...

Since the inception of the economic reform, marital relationship in urban China has undergone dramatic transformations. Though the burgeoning body of scholarly research has demonstrated that marital quality has increasingly become an important aspect of family life among married persons in urban China, both the conceptualization and measurement of marital quality remain underdeveloped. The purp...