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dyadic processes in early marriage attributions behavior and Marital Quality
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. When we used couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first 4 years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality 4 years later after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couples' warm and hostile behavior 2 years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Dyadic Processes in Early Marriage: Attributions, Behavior, and Marital Quality.
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Ming Cui, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. Using couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first four years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality four years later, after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couple's warm and hostile behavior two years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Relationships among sexual satisfaction, Marital Quality, and Marital instability at midlife.
Journal of Family Psychology, 2006Co-Authors: Frederick O Lorenz, Rand D Conger, K. A. S. Wickrama, Glen H. ElderAbstract:Sexual satisfaction, Marital Quality, and Marital instability have been studied over the life course of couples in many previous studies, but less in relation to each other. On the basis of the longitudinal data from 283 married couples, the authors used autoregressive models in this study to examine the causal sequences among these 3 constructs for husbands and wives separately. Results of cross-lagged models, for both husbands and wives, provided support for the causal sequences that proceed from sexual satisfaction to Marital Quality, from sexual satisfaction to Marital instability, and from Marital Quality to Marital instability. Initially higher levels of sexual satisfaction resulted in an increase in Marital Quality, which in turn led to a decrease in Marital instability over time. Effects of sexual satisfaction on Marital instability appear to have been mediated through Marital Quality.
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Marital Quality and physical illness a latent growth curve analysis
Journal of Marriage and Family, 1997Co-Authors: K. A. S. Wickrama, Rand D Conger, Frederick O Lorenz, Glen H. ElderAbstract:K. A. S. WICKRAMA, FREDERICK 0. LORENZ, AND RAND D. CONGER Iowa State University GLEN H. ELDER, JR. University of North Carolina* Using latent growth curves, this study investigates the association between intraindividual changes in Marital Quality and physical illness for 364 wives and husbands in the rural Midwest. The results reveal that both the initial level of and the change in the Marital Quality of husbands and wives correlate with the initial level of and the change in physical health, after controlling for the influence of work stress, education, and income. Additional analyses imply that psychological wellbeing and behaviors that are health risks mediate or explain this association. The results provide stronger evidence for the association between Marital Quality and physical illness for both husbands and wives than has been obtained from cross-sectional studies or from longitudinal studies that have been limited to the investigation of interindividual differences. Key Words: Marital Quality, physical illness. Previous research demonstrates a significant association between Marital roles and physical health (Gove, Hughes, & Style, 1983; Ross, Mirowsky, & Goldsteen, 1990). Few scholars, however, have examined how the degree of Marital Quality, rather than simply the status of being married, relates to physical well-being (Marcenes & Sheham, 1992). Yet subjective experience in the Marital role may be a more powerful predictor of health status than is role occupancy (Barauch & Barnett, 1986). Gove and Umberson (1985), for example, found that intimate relationships are strongly related to overall well-being. Another limitation in previous research is that most of the studies focusing on the association between Marital Quality and health have examined only mental health (Lorenz, Conger, Montague, & Wickrama, 1993). In this study, we extend earlier research by investigating the correlation of Marital Quality, as indicated by Marital stability, satisfaction, and happiness in the relationship, with physical illness, as reported by 364 wives and husbands who have been married long. In addition to examining the empirical relationship between Marital Quality and physical health, our study also addresses two important methodological issues largely neglected in previous research. First, earlier studies have focused on the correspondence between the levels of Marital Quality and physical health. We were able to locate only one study that has examined the relationship between interindividual changes in Marital Quality and changes in physical health (Booth & Johnson, 1994). No research in this area has investigated individual differences in intraindividual change in marriage and health, even though the investigation of change should explain individual growth or decline over time. Instead, prior studies of health and social relations have inferred intraindividual change from interindividual differences in levels of attributes (Lorenz & Wickrama, 1994). Actually monitoring the correspondence between changes in social relations and changes in health status provides stronger evidence for the dynamic association between those attributes, at least in comparison with the correspondence that can be obtained from interindividual differences in levels of Marital Quality and physical health at one point in time (McArdle, 1986; Patterson, 1983, Rogosa, Brandt, & Zimowski, 1982). Most important, none of the earlier studies that we have been able to identify has used individual trajectories of change to examine the systematic relationship between Marital Quality and physical wellbeing. In examining how the dynamics of marriage might affect changes in health status, it is important to note that changes in personal attributes across several points in time can take either linear or nonlinear forms. When true individual change follows interesting and even nonlinear trajectories, traditional analytical methods (correlational and covariant) are unlikely to reveal the intricacies of individual change (Willet & Sayer, 1994). …
Kira S. Birditt - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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chronic stress and negative Marital Quality among older couples associations with waist circumference
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2019Co-Authors: Kira S. Birditt, Nicky J Newton, Jim Cranford, Noah J WebsterAbstract:ObjectiveMore than a third of the U.S. population of older adults is obese. The present study tests the Dyadic Biopsychosocial Model of Marriage and Health, which hypothesizes that, among married couples, individual and partner chronic stress predicts increased waist circumference and these links are exacerbated in negative Quality marriages.MethodParticipants were from the nationally representative longitudinal Health and Retirement Study (HRS). A total of 2,042 married individuals (in 1,098 married couples) completed psychosocial and waist circumference assessments in 2006 and 2010. Analyses examined whether negative Marital Quality and chronic stress in Wave 1 (2006) were associated with changes in waist circumference over time.ResultsActor–partner interdependence models revealed that greater partner stress, rather than individuals’ own reports of stress, was associated with increased waist circumference over time. Higher perceived negative Marital Quality among husbands and lower negative Marital Quality among wives exacerbated the positive link between partner stress and waist circumference.DiscussionConsistent with the Dyadic Biopsychosocial Model of Marriage and Health, partner stress has direct associations with waist circumference among couples and this link is moderated by negative Marital Quality. Thus, dyadic perceptions of stress and negative Marital Quality are important to consider for understanding marriage and obesity.
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Drinking Patterns Among Older Couples: Longitudinal Associations With Negative Marital Quality
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2016Co-Authors: Kira S. Birditt, James A. Cranford, Jasmine A. Manalel, Toni C. AntonucciAbstract:ObjectivesResearch with younger couples indicates that alcohol use has powerful effects on Marital Quality, but less work has examined the effects of drinking among older couples. This study examined whether dyadic patterns of drinking status among older couples are associated with negative Marital Quality over time.MethodMarried participants (N = 4864) from the Health and Retirement Study reported on alcohol consumption (whether they drink alcohol and average amount consumed per week) and negative Marital Quality (e.g., criticism and demands) across two waves (Wave 1 2006/2008 and Wave 2 2010/2012).ResultsConcordant drinking couples reported decreased negative Marital Quality over time, and these links were significantly greater among wives. Wives who reported drinking alcohol reported decreased negative Marital Quality over time when husbands also reported drinking and increased negative Marital Quality over time when husbands reported not drinking.DiscussionThe present findings stress the importance of considering the drinking status rather than the amount of alcohol consumed of both members of the couple when attempting to understand drinking and Marital Quality among older couples. These findings are particularly salient given the increased drinking among baby boomers and the importance of Marital Quality for health among older couples.
Noah J Webster - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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chronic stress and negative Marital Quality among older couples associations with waist circumference
Journals of Gerontology Series B-psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2019Co-Authors: Kira S. Birditt, Nicky J Newton, Jim Cranford, Noah J WebsterAbstract:ObjectiveMore than a third of the U.S. population of older adults is obese. The present study tests the Dyadic Biopsychosocial Model of Marriage and Health, which hypothesizes that, among married couples, individual and partner chronic stress predicts increased waist circumference and these links are exacerbated in negative Quality marriages.MethodParticipants were from the nationally representative longitudinal Health and Retirement Study (HRS). A total of 2,042 married individuals (in 1,098 married couples) completed psychosocial and waist circumference assessments in 2006 and 2010. Analyses examined whether negative Marital Quality and chronic stress in Wave 1 (2006) were associated with changes in waist circumference over time.ResultsActor–partner interdependence models revealed that greater partner stress, rather than individuals’ own reports of stress, was associated with increased waist circumference over time. Higher perceived negative Marital Quality among husbands and lower negative Marital Quality among wives exacerbated the positive link between partner stress and waist circumference.DiscussionConsistent with the Dyadic Biopsychosocial Model of Marriage and Health, partner stress has direct associations with waist circumference among couples and this link is moderated by negative Marital Quality. Thus, dyadic perceptions of stress and negative Marital Quality are important to consider for understanding marriage and obesity.
Frederick O Lorenz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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dyadic processes in early marriage attributions behavior and Marital Quality
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. When we used couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first 4 years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality 4 years later after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couples' warm and hostile behavior 2 years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Dyadic Processes in Early Marriage: Attributions, Behavior, and Marital Quality.
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Ming Cui, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. Using couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first four years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality four years later, after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couple's warm and hostile behavior two years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Relationships among sexual satisfaction, Marital Quality, and Marital instability at midlife.
Journal of Family Psychology, 2006Co-Authors: Frederick O Lorenz, Rand D Conger, K. A. S. Wickrama, Glen H. ElderAbstract:Sexual satisfaction, Marital Quality, and Marital instability have been studied over the life course of couples in many previous studies, but less in relation to each other. On the basis of the longitudinal data from 283 married couples, the authors used autoregressive models in this study to examine the causal sequences among these 3 constructs for husbands and wives separately. Results of cross-lagged models, for both husbands and wives, provided support for the causal sequences that proceed from sexual satisfaction to Marital Quality, from sexual satisfaction to Marital instability, and from Marital Quality to Marital instability. Initially higher levels of sexual satisfaction resulted in an increase in Marital Quality, which in turn led to a decrease in Marital instability over time. Effects of sexual satisfaction on Marital instability appear to have been mediated through Marital Quality.
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Marital Quality and physical illness a latent growth curve analysis
Journal of Marriage and Family, 1997Co-Authors: K. A. S. Wickrama, Rand D Conger, Frederick O Lorenz, Glen H. ElderAbstract:K. A. S. WICKRAMA, FREDERICK 0. LORENZ, AND RAND D. CONGER Iowa State University GLEN H. ELDER, JR. University of North Carolina* Using latent growth curves, this study investigates the association between intraindividual changes in Marital Quality and physical illness for 364 wives and husbands in the rural Midwest. The results reveal that both the initial level of and the change in the Marital Quality of husbands and wives correlate with the initial level of and the change in physical health, after controlling for the influence of work stress, education, and income. Additional analyses imply that psychological wellbeing and behaviors that are health risks mediate or explain this association. The results provide stronger evidence for the association between Marital Quality and physical illness for both husbands and wives than has been obtained from cross-sectional studies or from longitudinal studies that have been limited to the investigation of interindividual differences. Key Words: Marital Quality, physical illness. Previous research demonstrates a significant association between Marital roles and physical health (Gove, Hughes, & Style, 1983; Ross, Mirowsky, & Goldsteen, 1990). Few scholars, however, have examined how the degree of Marital Quality, rather than simply the status of being married, relates to physical well-being (Marcenes & Sheham, 1992). Yet subjective experience in the Marital role may be a more powerful predictor of health status than is role occupancy (Barauch & Barnett, 1986). Gove and Umberson (1985), for example, found that intimate relationships are strongly related to overall well-being. Another limitation in previous research is that most of the studies focusing on the association between Marital Quality and health have examined only mental health (Lorenz, Conger, Montague, & Wickrama, 1993). In this study, we extend earlier research by investigating the correlation of Marital Quality, as indicated by Marital stability, satisfaction, and happiness in the relationship, with physical illness, as reported by 364 wives and husbands who have been married long. In addition to examining the empirical relationship between Marital Quality and physical health, our study also addresses two important methodological issues largely neglected in previous research. First, earlier studies have focused on the correspondence between the levels of Marital Quality and physical health. We were able to locate only one study that has examined the relationship between interindividual changes in Marital Quality and changes in physical health (Booth & Johnson, 1994). No research in this area has investigated individual differences in intraindividual change in marriage and health, even though the investigation of change should explain individual growth or decline over time. Instead, prior studies of health and social relations have inferred intraindividual change from interindividual differences in levels of attributes (Lorenz & Wickrama, 1994). Actually monitoring the correspondence between changes in social relations and changes in health status provides stronger evidence for the dynamic association between those attributes, at least in comparison with the correspondence that can be obtained from interindividual differences in levels of Marital Quality and physical health at one point in time (McArdle, 1986; Patterson, 1983, Rogosa, Brandt, & Zimowski, 1982). Most important, none of the earlier studies that we have been able to identify has used individual trajectories of change to examine the systematic relationship between Marital Quality and physical wellbeing. In examining how the dynamics of marriage might affect changes in health status, it is important to note that changes in personal attributes across several points in time can take either linear or nonlinear forms. When true individual change follows interesting and even nonlinear trajectories, traditional analytical methods (correlational and covariant) are unlikely to reveal the intricacies of individual change (Willet & Sayer, 1994). …
Frank D Fincham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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dyadic processes in early marriage attributions behavior and Marital Quality
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. When we used couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first 4 years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality 4 years later after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couples' warm and hostile behavior 2 years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Dyadic Processes in Early Marriage: Attributions, Behavior, and Marital Quality.
Family Relations, 2011Co-Authors: Jared A Durtschi, Frank D Fincham, Frederick O Lorenz, Ming Cui, Rand D CongerAbstract:Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future Marital Quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to Marital Quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. Using couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first four years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with Marital Quality four years later, after controlling for initial Marital Quality. Further, couple's warm and hostile behavior two years into the marriage mediated the attribution-Marital Quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
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Forgiveness and Marital Quality: Precursor or consequence in well-established relationships?
The Journal of Positive Psychology, 2007Co-Authors: Frank D Fincham, Steven R. H. BeachAbstract:To examine potential causal relations between forgiveness and Marital Quality a sample of married couples (N = 91) provided data regarding forgiveness and Marital Quality on two occasions separated by a 12-month interval. Structural equation modeling was used to examine direction of effects. For women, paths emerged from forgiveness to Marital Quality and vice versa. For men, the direction of effect was from Marital Quality to forgiveness. The concurrent association between the two constructs mediated the longitudinal relationship between them for wives but not for husbands. These results are discussed in relation to an emerging body of theory and research on the role of forgiveness in marriage.
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A New Look at Marital Quality: Can Spouses Feel Positive and Negative About Their Marriage?
Journal of Family Psychology, 1997Co-Authors: Frank D Fincham, Kenneth J. LinfieldAbstract:Marital Quality is examined as a 2-dimensional construct comprising positive and negative evaluations. Assessments of Marital Quality, behavior, attributions, and general affect were completed by 123 couples. Confirmatory factor analysis supported the existence of positive and negative Marital Quality dimensions. These dimensions also explained unique variance in reported behavior and attributions beyond that explained by a conventional Marital Quality measure and by positive and negative affect. Ambivalent (high-positive and high-negative) and indifferent (lowpositive and low-negative) wives differed in reports of behaviors and attributions but did not differ in scores on the conventional Marital Quality test. The implications of a 2-dimensional analysis of Marital Quality for theory and research are outlined.