Among the couples who were still married after four years, both husbands and wives reported
less marital satisfaction compared to couples who did not have pre-marital doubts.
In comparison to other groups, mothers of children with ASD reported greater use of maladaptive coping strategies (self - blame, wish - fulfilling fantasy), greater information seeking,
less marital satisfaction, sense of competence and family adaptability, and higher family cohesion.
Like the family environment, many studies have focused on the marital relationship as an outcome variable of family adaptation, indicating
less marital satisfaction in mothers of children with ASD in comparison to mothers of children with other disorders [56, 69], and less positive expression within the marital relationship [45].
The capstone approach may, ironically, lead to worse preparation for marriage, resulting is
less marital satisfaction.
The consequences of such stagnation are serious: according to a recent study in Psychological Science, those who were more bored with their marriages at one point in time reported
less marital satisfaction 9 years later.2 Clearly, boredom isn't something to ignore.
For all couples, frequently fighting about gaming and not maintaining the same bedtime were linked to
less marital satisfaction.
Recently a research study on newly married couples done by the University of Iowa showed that providing too much support in the form of advice, emotional comfort, confidence - boosting and financial / material help is associated with
less marital satisfaction.
They found in 1986 that men who score high on the CHS report
less marital satisfaction than their peers who do not use humor as much to cope.
In contrast, other research has demonstrated that women unhappy with their body and weight have less sex, less sexual satisfaction, and
less marital satisfaction.
The capstone approach may, ironically, lead to worse preparation for marriage, resulting is
less marital satisfaction.
Not exact matches
Marital intercourse is purified when the urge for self -
satisfaction plays a
lesser part in it, intercourse being rather sought, lived, and felt as participation and particularly as other - centred donative love.
And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower
marital happiness and
satisfaction than white spouses; they disagree more than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black women get
less benefits from marriage than white women and even black men do.
In fact, people who met online were slightly
less likely to divorce and scored slightly higher on
marital satisfaction.
One third of American marriages now originate online, demonstrate a higher level of
marital satisfaction and are
less likely to end in divorce than those that begin through other means.
Researchers found that couples who met online were more likely to have higher
marital satisfaction less likely to have
marital breakups than relationships that began in face - to - face meetings.
One study conducted in 2012 in Hong Kong looked at the
marital and sexual
satisfaction of more than a thousand married men and women and found that a woman is 40 percent
less likely to be satisfied with her marriage if she is better educated than her husband, compared to when they are equally educated.
The more time a husband spends in running or growing his business the
less time spent on household chores or quality interaction at home thus reduces wife's
marital satisfaction [7].
Psychologist Eli Finkel and others, in a study published in 2013, found that newlyweds who regularly completed a writing exercise in which they wrote about
marital issues from the perspective of a third party experienced
less decline in
marital satisfaction than those who did not complete the exercise.
For example, optimists report experiencing more
satisfaction in
marital relationships (Smith, Ruiz, Cundiff, Baron, & Nealey - Moore, 2013), more support in their social relationships (Abend & Williamson, 2002; Brissette, Scheier, & Carver, 2002; Wimberly, Carver, & Antoni, 2008), and are
less likely to have an anxious attachment style (Heinonen, Räikkönen, Keltikangas - Järvinen, & Strandberg, 2004).
It's
less than 1 % of the variation in overall
marital satisfaction.
In addition, marriages that began on - line, when compared with those that began through traditional off - line venues, were slightly
less likely to result in a
marital break - up (separation or divorce) and were associated with slightly higher
marital satisfaction among those respondents who remained married.
In
less than a full weekend, you will learn the six toxic patterns observed in «disaster couples» that cause their demise, and the seven loving patterns observed in «master couples» that result in
marital satisfaction.
In addition to knowing each set of twins» genetic overlap (identical = more, fraternal =
less), the researchers focused on individual twins» reports of
marital satisfaction (a general measure of the quality of their marriages) and self - reported health that asks participants to indicate their overall health, from «the worst possible» to «the best possible» health.
Indeed, as recently as 2013, an article in the American Sociological Review found that couples who divided housework more equally had lower
marital and sexual
satisfaction and
less frequent sex than couples where the woman did the bulk of the household labor.
Ironically, however, the minority of coupled parents who do equally share childcare and housework report higher levels of sexual and
marital satisfaction than couples who divide the work
less equally.
Although
less than one - third of the couples we studied shared housework equally, these were the couples who, in contrast to couples in earlier decades, reported the highest
marital and sexual
satisfaction.
In partial contradiction to these findings, Rabin and Shapira - Berman (1997) found that while women perceive
less marital tension and greater
satisfaction when role division and decision - making are equally shared, men did not.
with premarital education have higher levels of
marital satisfaction and are
less likely to divorce.
In contrast to earlier reports of positive associations between shared goals and
marital satisfaction (Hwang, 2004; Kaplan & Maddux, 2002), our measure of shared selves was not significantly related to
marital quality, which may be because our measure is
less influenced by perceptions of relationship quality.
Given prior studies documenting that men are
less likely than women to both notice and respond to
marital difficulties (Carstensen et al., 1995), those who perceive and acknowledge such difficulties may be particularly sensitive to their marriage's emotional climate, which carries implications for their global
marital satisfaction.
For example, Levy - Shiff (1994) reported that husbands who view themselves as nurturing, caring and protecting experienced
less of a decline in
marital satisfaction than their counterparts.
The main results show that (a) mothers promote family integrity in stepfamilies either with the partner, or with the father, but not with both; (b) the older the child, the
less the mothers reported integrity with the father in both families, and the more they reported disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies; and (c) maternal
marital satisfaction is linked with all dimensions of coparenting with the father in first - marriage families, but only with disparagement against the partner and conflict with the partner in stepfamilies.
The literature is
less conclusive, however, regarding the specific positive (e.g., partner listens to me) and negative (e.g., partner makes me upset) aspects of
marital interaction that may contribute to men's and women's responses on general
marital satisfaction items.
In addition, they may be equipped with
less personal and family resources (e.g. lower
marital satisfaction and social support), a lower propensity to view their situation as meaningful, manageable and comprehensive, and demonstrate greater use of maladaptive coping strategies.