Sentences with phrase «marital quality measures»

As a result, marital quality measures were assessed from some married respondents and their spouses in both 2006 and 2010, and for others only in 2006, 2008, or 2010.

Table 4 displays the marital quality measures.

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(3) A marital happiness measure — the proportion of married people who say their marriage is «very happy» (because quality matters, too).

The problem is that relationship scientists have been investigating links between similarity, «complementarity» (opposite qualities), and marital well - being for the better part of a century, and little evidence supports the view that either of these principles — at least when assessed by characteristics that can be measured in surveys — predicts marital well - being.

The research reported here used measures of marital success based on both marital survival and marital quality to assess how well first marriages entered at relatively late ages fare in comparison with those entered younger.

Marital researchers have underscored the importance of measuring different domains of marital quality (e.g., Bradbury, 1995; Bradbury et al., 2000), and prior research shows that different aspects of marriage have differential relationships to physical and mental health indicators (e.g., Bookwala, 2005; Bookwala & Franks, 2005; Bookwala & Jacobs, 2004; Umberson et al.,Marital researchers have underscored the importance of measuring different domains of marital quality (e.g., Bradbury, 1995; Bradbury et al., 2000), and prior research shows that different aspects of marriage have differential relationships to physical and mental health indicators (e.g., Bookwala, 2005; Bookwala & Franks, 2005; Bookwala & Jacobs, 2004; Umberson et al.,marital quality (e.g., Bradbury, 1995; Bradbury et al., 2000), and prior research shows that different aspects of marriage have differential relationships to physical and mental health indicators (e.g., Bookwala, 2005; Bookwala & Franks, 2005; Bookwala & Jacobs, 2004; Umberson et al., 2006).

The EFT intervention significantly increased marital quality as measured by the total DAS score, T (17) = − 3.65, p =.002, Mpre - EFT = 81.2 (SD = 14.0), Mpost - EFT = 96.0 (SD = 17.2).

To test if question style plays a role in the sex and satisfaction link, researchers from Florida State University and University of Tennessee tested the link between how often couples have sex and relationship quality by measuring marital satisfaction two different ways.

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.

The evaluation includes two interrelated substudies — one focusing on sites» experiences in implementing the SHM model and the other measuring program impacts on marital quality and stability, child well - being, and a range of other outcomes.

Measures utilized include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), Effortful Control (EC), the Callous / Unemotional Traits (CU), the Parental Stress Index - Short Form, the Marital Quality Scale (MQS - I), and the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire — Preschool, Revised.

Measures utilized include the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), the Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory (ECBI), Effortful Control (EC), the Callous / Unemotional traits (CU), the Parental Stress Index - Short Form, the Marital Quality Scale (MQS - I), and the Alabama Parenting Questionnaire — Preschool, Revised.

To illustrate findings throughout the report, we use bar charts in which we define high - quality marriages as those that score in the top 40 percent on a measure of overall marital quality.

Marital quality was measured by the four - item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, a scale that includes items about marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier,Marital quality was measured by the four - item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale, a scale that includes items about marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier,marital happiness, confiding in one another, believing things are going well in the relationship, and thoughts of divorce (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier, 1976).

Marital quality was measured with the four - item version of the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Sabourin, Valois, & Lussier, 2005; Spanier, 1976).

Furthermore, they found that a composite measure involving intrinsic and environmental factors was associated with each step in their marital cascade model, indicating that a broader range of variables than relationship quality alone may be involved in cascades towards relationship dissolution.

The 32 - item Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976) measured marital quality, with varying response scales (e.g., 6 - point scales of frequency all the time to never and frequency of agreement always agree to always disagree).

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.

Marital quality is measured by including two dichotomous variables: closeness with spouses (very close; not very close) and similar outlook about life (very similar; not very similar).

This measure should be less affected by appraisal processes that are activated when individuals explicitly assess their spouse's involvement in goal pursuits and, thus, be less colored by overall marital quality.

Various measures exist for assessing constructs in the areas of parent — child relationships, parental practices and discipline, parental beliefs, marital quality, global family functioning and situation - specific measures.

The overall quality of adjustment in marital relationships was measured using the DAS (Spanier 1976).

It measures marital quality and satisfaction and consists of three scales: quarrelling (e.g. «When we quarrel he or she keeps taunting me»), tenderness (e.g. «He or she caresses me tenderly») and closeness / communication (e.g. «We talk to each other for at least half an hour every day»).

In contrast, others have found that individual marital satisfaction was more strongly linked to measures of depression among older persons (Bookwala & Jacobs, 2004; Whisman & Uebelacker, 2009), a result partially supported by a meta analysis on longitudinal studies linking marital quality and psychological well - being (Proulx, Helms, & Buehler, 2007).

Most research on marital quality reveals that even happily married persons hold both positive and negative feelings about their relationship (Fincham & Linfield, 1997; Rook 1998), and that formal conceptualizations and measures of marital satisfaction should recognize the contribution of positive and negative attributes (Kiecolt - Glaser & Newton, 2001).

Using repeated measures analysis for four waves of data collection we use GEE to examine the extent to which symptoms of depression predict subsequent poor martial quality in women and poor marital quality predicts subsequent depression.

The scale was developed for the MoBa and is based on core items used in previously developed measures of marital satisfaction and relationship quality [33 — 35].

Differences between ART and control groups in marital relationship at T2 (child 2 months) and T3 (child 12 months): means (m), standard deviations (SDs) and F - values for quality (between - subject ANOVA) and change (repeated - measure ANOVA)

(iv) To examine how infertility and treatment characteristics predict the quality and change of marital relationships within the ART group, we conducted repeated - measure MANOVAs on dyadic consensus, marital satisfaction, dyadic cohesion and expression of affection at T2 and T3.

[jounal] Norton, R. / 1983 / Measuring marital quality: A critical look at the dependent variable / Journal of Marriage and Family 45 (1): 141 ~ 151

(iii) To examine whether couple - related (number of children, length of partnership and number of previous partnerships) and psychosocial stress (SES, stressful life events and depressive symptoms in pregnancy) factors differently predict the quality and change of marital relationships among ART and control groups, we added corresponding two - way interactions into the main effect repeated - measure MANOVAs.

The least frequent outcome measure used was well - being, explored by only one study (Lowyck et al., 2009), revealing a notable lack of published research that has explored positive aspects of emotional adjustment, such as life satisfaction, happiness, well - being or marital quality.

Interpersonal measures that were not associated with outcomes included Marital Quality, measured by the Israeli Marital bonds scale (Lavee, 1995), the Intimate Bonds Measure (Wilhelm and Parker, 1988) and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale (Spanier, 1976).

Conclusion: Both the IBM, a self - report measure, and the structured marital interview provided consistent information about the quality of marital relationships, particularly perceptions of care.