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Raijaleena Punamaki - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • infertility treatment and Marital Relationships a 1 year prospective study among successfully treated art couples and their controls
    Obstetrical & Gynecological Survey, 2007
    Co-Authors: Leena Repokari, Raijaleena Punamaki, Leila Unkilakallio, Sirpa Vilska, Piia Poikkeus, Jari Sinkkonen, Fredrik Almqvist, Aila Tiitinen, Maija Tulppala
    Abstract:

    Today many infertile couples become parents through assisted reproduction techniques (ART). A successful outcome improves emotional well-being in a majority of cases, but comparatively little is known about whether and how Marital relations are affected during the transition to parenthood. The investigators studied the influence of ART on Marital relations in 367 couples achieving singleton pregnancies by in vitro fertilization or intracytoplasmic sperm injection and 379 control couples who conceived spontaneously. The dyadic adjustment scale was used to assess parents' perceptions of their marriages when the child was 2 months (T2) and 12 months (T3) of age. Depression was rated during pregnancy using a short version of the Beck Depression Inventory. The ART and control couples did not differ significantly with regard to dyadic cohesion or Marital satisfaction. Dyadic consensus deteriorated from T2 to T3 in control women but not those in the ART group. Men in the control group reported lower levels of sexual affection than did those in the ART group at T2, and stressful life events exaggerated this effect; no such difference was apparent at T3. Depression during pregnancy predicted worsened Marital relations in control couples only. ART women experiencing several unsuccessful attempts at treatment exhibited good dyadic consensus and cohesion. Both spontaneous abortions and multiparity predicted relatively poor Marital satisfaction in ART women. In ART men, a long duration of infertility and multiparity predicted poor Marital relations. The investigators conclude from these findings that successful ART does not predispose to adverse Marital adjustment. It is conceivable that the common stress of being infertile has the potential to stabilize Marital Relationships. This is only one example of how any life crisis may activate a couple's resources and strengthen their marriage.

  • infertility treatment and Marital Relationships a 1 year prospective study among successfully treated art couples and their controls
    Human Reproduction, 2007
    Co-Authors: Leena Repokari, Raijaleena Punamaki, Leila Unkilakallio, Sirpa Vilska, Piia Poikkeus, Jari Sinkkonen, Fredrik Almqvist, Aila Tiitinen, Maija Tulppala
    Abstract:

    BACKGROUND: Evidence about the effects of infertility and assisted reproduction technique (ART) on Marital Relationships is discrepant. Here, we examined the impact of ART on Marital Relationships. The roles of life stressors, infertility and treatment characteristics in predicting Marital relations were also evaluated. METHODS: Subjects: 367 couples with singleton IVF/ICSI pregnancies. Controls: 379 couples with spontaneous singleton pregnancies. Women and men were assessed when the child was 2 months (T2) and 12 months old (T3). They further reported stressful life events at T2 and depression in pregnancy. RESULTS: No between-group differences were found in Marital satisfaction and dyadic cohesion. Dyadic consensus deteriorated from T2 to T3 only among control women. Sexual affection was low among control men at T2 and stressful life events decreased it further. Depression during pregnancy predicted deteriorated Marital relations only in control couples. Several unsuccessful treatment attempts were associated with good dyadic consensus and cohesion among ART women. Spontaneous abortions and multiple parity predicted poor Marital satisfaction in ART women, whereas long duration of infertility and multiple parity predicted poor Marital relations in ART men. CONCLUSIONS: Successful ART does not constitute a risk for Marital adjustment. The shared stress of infertility may even stabilize Marital Relationships.

  • parental mental health and children s adjustment the quality of Marital interaction and parenting as mediating factors
    Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2003
    Co-Authors: Jenni A Leinonen, Tytti Solantaus, Raijaleena Punamaki
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    BACKGROUND Research has put emphasis on the process of transmission of mental-health problems from parents to children. This study examines the specificity of the interpersonal Relationships mediating these symptoms. METHOD Information about parent and child mental health, Marital interaction, and parenting was received from 527 mothers and fathers. Information about child mental health was also received from their 12-year-old children (260 girls and 267 boys). RESULTS The results confirm that parental mental-health problems can compromise a mother's and father's parenting abilities and represent a threat to their children's adjustment. The results suggest that the different types of parental mental-health problems initiate specific paths between parental and child mental-health problems. The results also reveal examples of how the mediation may depend on both the parents' and the children's gender. CONCLUSIONS The results further suggest that opposite-sex parenting is important to children's adjustment during the years of early adolescence. KEYWORDS Child development, epidemiology, gender, Marital Relationships, mental health, parenting.

Carolyn Pape Cowan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • couple attachment and the quality of Marital Relationships method and concept in the validation of the new couple attachment interview and coding system
    Attachment & Human Development, 2005
    Co-Authors: Elina O Alexandrov, Philip A Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan
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    This study investigates links between adult attachment and Marital quality in 73 married couples, using a new Couple Attachment Interview that was modeled after the Adult Attachment Interview but focuses on the relationship between the partners. A coding system (CAICS) comparing the interview protocol to prototypes for secure, dismissing, and preoccupied attachment styles yielded continuous ratings of all three styles, and categorical classifications of secure/insecure for each partner. The study found direct links between couple attachment and both self-reported and observed Marital quality, with all three continuous scores contributing uniquely to the equations. In most cases, the continuous scores explained variation in Marital quality after the categorical security scores were entered into the regressions, although categorical scores also contributed uniquely to the explanation of Marital quality. Pairing of partners' scores explained significant variance in both self-reported and observed evaluations of the couple relationship. Security of couple attachment served as a mediator in the link between self-reported Marital satisfaction and observed Marital quality. The results illustrated the interconnection of methodological choices and theoretical advances in the study of attachment and couple relationship quality.

  • interventions as tests of family systems theories Marital and family Relationships in children s development and psychopathology
    Development and Psychopathology, 2002
    Co-Authors: Philip A Cowan, Carolyn Pape Cowan
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    This paper addresses the role of family-based studies of preventive and therapeutic interventions in our understanding of normal development and psychopathology. The emphasis is on interventions designed to improve parent-child and/or Marital Relationships as a way of facilitating development and reducing psychopathology in children and adolescents. Intervention designs provide the gold standard for testing causal hypotheses. We begin by discussing the complexity of validating these hypotheses and the implications of the shift from a traditional emphasis on theories of etiology to developmental psychopathology's newer paradigm describing risks --> pathways --> outcomes. We summarize correlational studies that document the fact that difficult and ineffective parent-child and Marital Relationships function as risk factors for children's cognitive, social, and emotional problems in childhood and adolescence. We then review prevention studies and therapy evaluation studies that establish some specific parenting and Marital variables as causal risk factors with respect to these outcomes. Our discussion focuses on what intervention studies have revealed so far and suggests an agenda for further research.

  • attachment security in couple Relationships a systemic model and its implications for family dynamics
    Family Process, 2002
    Co-Authors: Mario Mikulincer, Philip A Cowan, Victor Florian, Carolyn Pape Cowan
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    Theory and research on adult attachment style emphasize the crucial role that the sense of attachment security plays in the formation and maintenance of couple Relationships. In the present article, we review studies that have examined the contribution of adult attachment style to relational cognitions, emotions, and behaviors as well as to the formation, quality, and stability of dating and Marital Relationships. We discuss some of the measurement and design issues raised by this research. Based on the reviewed findings, we provide an integrative, systemic theoretical model delineating how the links between partners' attachment security and the quality of their couple relationship occurs. Finally, we discuss the implications of this model for the understanding of how attachment style and couple Relationships combine to affect the family system in general, and parent-child Relationships and children's developmental outcomes, in particular.

Ted L Huston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • positive illusions in Marital Relationships a 13 year longitudinal study
    Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2006
    Co-Authors: Paul J E Miller, Sylvia Niehuis, Ted L Huston
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    This study examined the long-term consequences of idealization in marriage, using both daily diary and questionnaire data collected from a sample of 168 newlywed couples who participated in a 4-wave, 13-year longitudinal study of marriage. Idealization was operationalized as the tendency for people to perceive their partner as more agreeable than would be expected based on their reports of their partner's agreeable and disagreeable behaviors. Spouses who idealized one another were more in love with each other as newlyweds. Longitudinal analyses suggested that spouses were less likely to suffer declines in love when they idealized one another as newlyweds. Newlywed levels of idealization did not predict divorce.

  • compatibility leisure and satisfaction in Marital Relationships
    Journal of Marriage and Family, 2002
    Co-Authors: Duane W Crawford, Renate Houts, Ted L Huston, Laura J George
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    This study challenges the prevailing view that Marital companionship promotes Marital satisfaction. By following a cohort of married couples for over a decade and by incorporating several methodological improvements-such as refining the measurement of Marital satisfaction, determining how much spouses enjoy doing the leisure activities they pursue together and apart, and using diary data to portray Marital leisure patterns-we found that the association between companionship and satisfaction is less robust than previously believed, and that it depends on how often spouses pursue activities that reflect their own and their partner's leisure preferences. Over time, involvement in leisure liked by husbands but disliked by wives, whether as a couple or by husbands alone, is both a cause and a consequence of wives' dissatisfaction.

  • socioemotional behavior and satisfaction in Marital Relationships a longitudinal study
    Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1991
    Co-Authors: Ted L Huston, Anita L Vangelisti
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    The interplay between 3 types of socioemotional behavior (affection, sexual interest, and negativity) and Marital satisfaction was studied using data from newly married couples followed over 2 years. Affection and negativity (but not sexual interest) were consistently associated cross-sectionally with Marital satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses revealed a gender-differentiated pattern suggesting a more complex relationship between satisfaction and Marital behavior than previously shown. Negativity, regardless of whether it was expressed by the husband or the wife, was associated with declines in wives' (but not husbands') satisfaction. Wives of husbands who were relatively negative early in marriage became more negative themselves. Wives who were relatively less satisfied early in marriage (but not husbands) were married to spouses who became more negative with time.

Naomi V Dahl - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • the impact of the overactive bladder syndrome on sexual function a preliminary report from the multicenter assessment of transdermal therapy in overactive bladder with oxybutynin trial
    American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2006
    Co-Authors: Peter K Sand, Roger P Goldberg, Roger R Dmochowski, Marilyn Mcilwain, Naomi V Dahl
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    Objective The objective of the study was to determine the impact of overactive bladder on sexual function from a preliminary analysis of the Multicenter Assessment of Transdermal Therapy in Overactive Bladder with Oxybutynin study. Study design The Multicenter Assessment of Transdermal Therapy in Overactive Bladder with Oxybutynin study was an open-label, prospective trial of 2878 subjects with overactive bladder, treated with transdermal oxybutynin for 6 months or less. The impact of overactive bladder on sexual function before and after treatment was assessed via item responses from the King's Health Questionnaire and Beck Depression Inventory-II (kappa-test). Results At baseline, 586 (23.1%) reported that overactive bladder had an impact on their sex life. Coital incontinence in 569 (22.8%) decreased after treatment to 438 (19.3%). Effects of overactive bladder on subjects' sex lives improved in 19.1% (worsened in 11.2%), and the effect on Relationships with partners improved in 19.6% (worsened in 11.9%). Reduced interest in sex, reported by 52.1% at baseline, improved significantly. (all P Conclusion Overactive bladder negatively affects sexual function. Treatment with transdermal oxybutynin improved sexual function and Marital Relationships.

Wim Meeus - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • family negativity and delinquent behavior in adolescence a predictive multivariate latent growth analysis
    Psychology Crime & Law, 2020
    Co-Authors: Kirsten L Buist, Veroni I Eichelsheim, William L Cook, Pol A C Van Lier, Hans M Koot, Wim Meeus
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    The current study had three aims: (1) to explore whether there is over-time change in adolescent delinquency and negativity in the parent–adolescent, sibling and Marital Relationships during adoles...

  • longitudinal transmission of conflict resolution styles from Marital Relationships to adolescent parent Relationships
    Journal of Family Psychology, 2007
    Co-Authors: Van Ea Doorn, Susan Branje, Wim Meeus
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    This study longitudinally investigated transmission: Can the way adolescents resolve conflicts with their parents be explained by the way parents resolve conflicts with each other? Questionnaires about conflict resolution styles were completed by 282 young adolescents (mean age = 13.2) and their parents. Path analyses with cross-lagged effects indicated that transmission of conflict resolution styles from Marital Relationships to adolescent-parent Relationships occurs: Conflict engagement and positive problem solving in Marital Relationships were significantly related to, respectively, conflict engagement and positive problem solving in adolescent-parent Relationships 2 years later. No significant longitudinal effects emerged with regard to withdrawal. Thus, the study shows that the way Marital conflicts are handled affects how adolescents deal with conflicts.