Sentences with phrase «predicted decline in marital satisfaction»

Several affective variables also predicted decline in marital satisfaction, including a pronounced gender difference in negative affect reciprocity: Marital satisfaction declined most when husbands did not reciprocate their wives» negative affect, and when wives did reciprocate their husbands» negative affect.

A broadly based pattern of physiological arousal (in both spouses) in 1980 was found to predict decline in marital satisfaction — the more physiologically aroused the couple was during the 1980 interactions, the more their marital satisfaction declined over the following 3 years.