This study provides evidence that the U-shaped pattern of
marital happiness over the life course is an artifact of cross-sectional research and is not typical of U.S. marriages.
Not exact matches
Importantly, maternal sensitivity was also affected by
marital happiness and conflict
over work / home
happiness.
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Marital satisfaction, so critical to health and
happiness, generally declines
over time.
The results were that the more physiologically aroused couples were in all channels (heart rate, skin conductance, gross motor activity, and blood velocity) the more their marriages deteriorated in
happiness over a three - year period, even controlling the initial level of
marital satisfaction).
I think
marital happiness is something that has surely evolved
over time, whereby marriages in the past were for different reasons, like bringing families together, financial or social reasons, etc..
Over 100 separate evaluations show that marriage skill education programs, of the sort that would be used in the healthy marriage initiative, are effective in reducing strife, improving communications skills, increasing couple stability and enhancing
marital happiness.
They also noticed that, of intact couples, those who reported cold feet were less satisfied with their marriages to begin with and their
marital happiness stayed lower
over time.
[jounal] White, L. K / 1991 / Divorce
over the life course: The role of
marital happiness / Journal of Family Issues 12: 5 ~ 21