Sentences with phrase «not decline in relationship satisfaction»

Based on the comparison of the couples who declined and did not decline in relationship satisfaction after baby, we designed the highly effective «Bringing Baby Home» (BBH) workshop.

Not exact matches

Researchers at Northwestern University found couples that wrote regular reports about their relationship maintained their marital satisfaction, while couples that didn't write reports noted a decline in their marital satisfaction.

According to the investment model, satisfaction with a relationship should be greater to the extent that a relationship provides high rewards and low costs, whereas commitment increases not only due to greater relationship satisfaction, but also to increases in the investment of resources in relationships and declines in the quality of available alternative partners.

But there is a glimmer of hope: not all new parents experience a decline in relationship satisfaction.

Father involvement increased for current couples group participants, though not as much as for benchmark couples group participants; they showed statistically similar positive changes on 6 measures (decline in parenting stress, stability in couple relationship satisfaction, children's hyperactivity, social withdrawal, psychological symptoms, increased income).

Thus, perhaps the decline in relationship satisfaction often reported by new parents is not only caused by the strains of parenthood, but also by a return to the base rates of relationship satisfaction, similar to those of women who did not become pregnant.

Longitudinal studies (e.g. Doss et al., 2009; Lawrence et al., 2008) show that new parents experience sharp declines in relationship satisfaction, whereas couples without children do not show these declines during the same time period.

However, in support of the argument that children affect a couple's relationship, Doss et al. (2009) conducted an eight year study in which they found that couples who had children had a more sudden decline in their relationship satisfaction following the birth of their first child which persisted through the study, as compared to couples who had not yet had children who showed a more gradual decline in their relationship satisfaction.

And while mothers» violated division of labor expectations have been linked to declines in relationship satisfaction across (Ruble et al., 1988), our findings suggest that the greatest positive impact in relationship satisfaction is seen when mothers» expectations are exceeded not so much when they are unfulfilled.

The purpose of this research was to explore the theoretical assumption that if a mother's expectations of her partner are not fulfilled, she will experience a decline in relationship satisfaction despite the reduction in role strain afforded her by maternal leave to care for her child.