Sentences with phrase «overall marital happiness»

For example, the wife's communion - oriented practices may enhance emotional intimacy and caregiving and thus promote overall marital happiness for their husbands (Bradbury & Fincham, 1988; Kiecolt - Glaser & Newton, 2001; Thompson, 1993).

In Fighting for Your Marriage, author Harold J. Markman, Ph.D. says the amount of fun partners have together is a key factor in predicting their overall marital happiness.

In Fighting for Your Marriage, Harold J. Markman, Ph.D., writes that the amount of fun partners have together while nurturing their connection is a key factor in predicting their overall marital happiness.

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The study researchers examined overall well - being and marital happiness among 394 couples who had been married for an average of 39 years.

Worse still, this decrease in marital satisfaction likely leads to a change in general happiness, because the biggest predictor of overall life satisfaction is one's satisfaction with their spouse.

Equity, which denotes the subjective sense of fairness and overall appraisal of the proportion one gives and takes from a relationship, has been linked to marital happiness for both husbands and wives (Bagarozzi & Wodwarsky, 1977).

Studies show that the level of marital happiness is the strongest predictor of overall life satisfaction.

This scale yields an overall score and has four subscales: dyadic consensus (agreement on spending spare time, financial matters, general view of life), dyadic cohesion (having discussions together, having interests in common), marital satisfaction (the amount of quarrels, trusting one another, general happiness in relationship) and sexual affection (sexual desire, expressions of love).