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Lavelle, Bridget; Lorenz, Frederick O.; Wickrama, K. A. S. – Rural Sociology, 2012
Economic restructuring in rural areas in recent decades has been accompanied by rising marital instability. To examine the implications of the increase in divorce for the health of rural women, we examine how marital status predicts adequacy of health insurance coverage and health care access, and whether these factors help to account for the…
Descriptors: Females, Access to Health Care, Health Insurance, Physical Health
Day, Randal D.; Acock, Alan – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2013
This study investigated religiousness and couple well-being as mediated by relational virtue and equality. Relational spiritual framework theory posits that religiousness is associated with couple well-being through relational virtues (e.g., forgiveness, commitment, and sacrifice). Theories of relational inequality postulate that religion…
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Well Being, Longitudinal Studies, Religion
Yu, Tianyi; Pettit, Gregory S.; Lansford, Jennifer E.; Dodge, Kenneth A.; Bates, John E. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2010
This study examines main effect and interactive models of the relations between marital conflict, divorce, and parent-adult child relationships and gender differences in these relations. Data were drawn from a longitudinal study of a community sample (N = 585). Parental marital conflict and divorce were measured from age 5 through age 17 years.…
Descriptors: Divorce, Mothers, Conflict, Parent Child Relationship
Yasuike, Akiko – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
This study examines the ways in which Japanese corporate transnationalism affects husbands' involvement in family life and marital relationships primarily from a perspective of wives. It is based on interviews with 22 Japanese wives and 4 husbands. Studies of Japanese corporate transnationalism treat men as mere supervisors to local workers or…
Descriptors: Spouses, Organizational Culture, Family Life, Parent Child Relationship
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Bacon, Lloyd – 1973
Patterns of relationships among the variables of pregnancy status at marriage, marital dissolution probabilities, residence and migration status, and race were ascertained. The data source was the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity, a large national probability sample expanded to U.S. population parameters. Relationships among these variables…
Descriptors: Blacks, Family Life, Females, Marital Instability
Wolf, Wendy C.; MacDonald, Maurice – 1978
It has been argued that extending welfare benefits to two-parent families may reduce marital disruptions by increasing the absolute level of males' earnings. The premise behind this assertion is that an increase in the absolute level of male earnings will reduce economic strain in the marriage, and the wife will perceive more gains from remaining…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Financial Problems, Income, Longitudinal Studies
Willie, Charles V., Ed. – 1970
Central in the development of this book is the issue of stability and instability in the family life of black people. A background section on the social facts of family life, which for the most part includes historical, demographic, and ecological data, is presented. Additional chapters discuss: (1) how marital stability can be used as a social…
Descriptors: Black History, Blacks, Disadvantaged, Disadvantaged Environment
Levine, Karen S.; Hennessy, James J. – 1989
Previous research has suggested that similarities and differences in specific personality factors are associated with differences in marital stability. Most findings were based on assessments of personality after marriage, thus confounding the effects of marriage on personality. This study was conducted to examine congruence between spouses'…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Congruence (Psychology), Marital Instability, Marital Status
Haggstrom, Gus W.; And Others – 1984
This study examines how becoming a parent affects the lives of young men and women during the 7-year period following their graduation from high school. The study is based on data from the National Longitudinal Survey of the High School Class of 1972 (NLS), a large panel study of over 22,000 high school seniors who were the subjects of four…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Career Development, Citizen Participation, Comparative Analysis