One area which may be expected to play an important role in a married woman's decision to return to school. as well as in determining the magnitude of the difficulties she will be confronted with, which is marital satisfaction. The present study explored the roles of sex-role identification, sex-role stereotypy were found to exert a significant influence on marital satisfaction. The present study explored the roles of sex-role identification, ex-role stereotypy, self-esteem, maternal employment, and number of years married as predictors of marital satisfaction in returning female students. Masculine sex-role identification, feminine sex-role identification, number of years married, and sex-role stereotypy were found to exert a significant influence on marital satisfaction. These findings are discussed in terms of the introduction of role-strain into the marriage of these.

Scholars have established cross-sectional connections between how married couples navigate their finances and their sexual relationship. For example, financial management behaviors have been shown to predict sexual satisfaction among newlywed couples. However, we know very little about the direction of the association between financial management behaviors and sexual satisfaction. Understanding which might predict the other, or if there might be a bidirectional association between the two, could provide direction on where to intervene to help newlywed couples with financial and/or sexual obstacles in their marriage. With three waves of dyadic data (N = 1,208 U.S. newlywed couples), I used structural equation modeling to examine the cross-lagged, indirect associations between husbands' and wives' financial management behaviors and their own sexual satisfaction through their own marital satisfaction. Overall, I found that financial management behaviors indirectly predicted changes in sexual satisfaction through changes in marital satisfaction for both husbands and wives. I also found limited evidence that husbands' sexual satisfaction indirectly predicted changes in their own financial management behaviors through changes in their own marital satisfaction. Additionally, these indirect associations differed by gender. Implications of these findings for those who help newlywed couples with their sexual relationship are discussed.

Literature has often connected the variables of physical health, mental health, and romantic relationship satisfaction or quality. However, there has yet been any evidence of a mediating relationship. The purpose of this study is to test for mediation of satisfaction with daily marital interactions on physical symptoms through psychological distress. The data is from the Life and Family Legacies Daily Experiences Study and includes 191 older couples over the course of 14 days. Multilevel dyadic models were estimated for both the same-day data as well as lagged data. Indirect effects between the variables were significant, but not for the lagged data. Effectively managing symptoms to enhance mental health may improve daily marital satisfaction for older adults.

The object of the study was the socio-psychological attitudes of the spouses. The subject of the study was the socio-psychological attitudes of spouses with different degrees of satisfaction with marriage. The master's thesis consists of an introduction, two chapters, conclusion, list of references (62 sources) and an Appendix, including the forms of the applied techniques. The volume of the master's thesis is 88 pages, which contains 8 tables. The introduction reveals the relevance of the research problem, the development of the problem, the purpose and objectives of the research, the object and subject of the research, the main and additional hypotheses are formulated, the methods and the empirical base are specified. In conclusion, the results of the theoretical and empirical parts of the work, as well as conclusions on the hypotheses put forward, the practical significance of the study and the possible prospects for further development of this problem are described in a generalized form. / Объектом исследования явились социально-психологические установки у супругов. Предметом исследования стали социально-психологические установки супругов с разной степенью удовлетворенности браком. Магистерская диссертация состоит из введения, двух глав, заключения, списка литературы (57 источников) и приложений, включающих в себя бланки применявшихся методик. Объем магистерской диссертации 91 страница, на которых размещены 8 таблиц. Во введении раскрывается актуальность проблемы исследования, разработанность проблематики, ставятся цель и задачи исследования, определяются объект и предмет исследования, формулируются основная и дополнительные гипотезы, указываются методы и эмпирическая база. В заключении в обобщенном виде изложены результаты теоретической и эмпирической частей работы, а также выводы по выдвинутым гипотезам, обоснована практическая значимость исследования и описаны возможные перспективы дальнейшей разработки данной проблематики.

A career with Extension can be very rewarding, but also very demanding, as employees have to balance job stress and time demands with family goals and demands. The very nature of Extension work brings some tension between the job and family, and employees need to be equipped to make decisions about personal and work time. If the Extension System is to be a leader of positive change for individuals, families and communities, its employees must be able to find that balance. Previous research with 4-H agents has identified 23 job responsibilities that were stressors, with some studies showing a direct relationship between Extension work and family problems. To build on these studies and establish the current situation among Extension agents with 4-H responsibilities in the Southern Region, this correlational study examined the relationships and differences between job characteristics and marital satisfaction, how agent characteristics directed those relationships, and what coping mechanisms agents used to ameliorate negative workamily interactions. The study instrument utilized the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (LWMAT) to arrive at a global score that represented the distress level of the relationship for each agent. Demographic information and work-related information was also gathered from the agent responses to the instrument, and then used to develop relationships among variables. The findings of the study were that agents experience the stressors in similar ways and amounts, but their perceptions of those stressors and how they affect marital satisfaction differ. The group experiencing the stressors to the most detrimental level was the members of the “Sandwich Generation,” which include employees aged 35-54, and who find their careers sandwiched between raising children and caring for aging parents. They, along with other agents, need to employ numerous strategies to cope with the stresses they experience, including prioritizing, planning, and building a strong social support system as the top strategies.

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The purpose of this study was to gain a better understanding of the gaming behaviors of married individuals and couples who play Massively Multiplayer Online Role-Playing Game(s) (MMORPGs) including gaming addiction, time spent gaming, satisfaction in gaming participation, gaming interaction (between joint gaming spouses), and socio-demographic variables and the subsequent marital satisfaction levels of both individuals in the couple. Hypotheses were generally supported, excluding the hours spent gaming. 685 couples were separated and analyzed according to whether both individuals in the marriage gamed or just one individual gamed (couple-gaming type). Couples in which only one individual gamed (individual-gamer couples) had significantly lower marital satisfaction than all other groups and couples in which both gamed about the same amount of time (equal-gamers) held the highest marital satisfaction of the groups. Prediction models of marital satisfaction were determined for each couple-gaming type. The strongest predictions present in most of the models for marital satisfaction were the frequency that the couple retired to bed at the same time and the frequency that the couple quarreled specifically about gaming. Much MMORPG research has been presented on youth and adults, however to date there is no research on married gamers. Recent research on the video game habits of emerging adults called for further in depth investigation of the implications of video game use in the family formation stage of life.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-28T20:37:29Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Cintia Gemmo Vilani.pdf: 2049497 bytes, checksum: d06ab114c9ffa52c35359d6cf33e5ef0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-22 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / Researchers have studied about the interface of religion in weddings, identifying that religious affiliation may be an important factor in the marital relationship. The purpose of this dissertation was to raise the elements that would promote discuss issues of marital satisfaction and conflict among married people and evangelical in order to obtain material for guidance and development of quality programs for married life. For this we used questionnaires to obtain information on participants, such as demographics (age, gender, financial and others), past behaviors and predicting future behavior, according to the personal beliefs of each participant, using also theMarital Adjustment Scale of Spanier (DSS - Dyadic Satisfaction Scale, 1976). The sample comprised 35 participants, 16 men and 19 women, mean age 36.80 years, with average deviation of 10.253, while 9 were followers of the neo- Pentecostal, 10 and 16 traditional church of the Pentecostal church, being subdivided into groups in relation to marital satisfaction. We work with the theme of marital satisfaction as the key as the present work, corroborated with the most points already stated in previous research, with emphasis on gender relations as a variable differential marital, surprising the greater number of women satisfied with respect tomen, the influence of religion can be seen in relation to paternal identification models, acting as a support network and training for moral and ethical values. The kinds of conflict and ways of facing the evangelical sample is similar to that of couples, regardless of religious variable / Pesquisadores têm estudado sobre a interface da religião nos casamentos, identificando-se que a filiação religiosa pode ser um fator importante para a relação conjugal. A proposta desta dissertação foi de levantar elementos que favorecessem problematizar temas de satisfação conjugal e de conflitos entre pessoas casadas e evangélicas, de modo a obter material para orientação e desenvolvimento de programas de qualidade de vida conjugal. Para isso foram utilizados questionários para obter informações sobre os participantes, tais como, dados demográficos (idade, gênero, financeiro dentre outros), comportamentos passados e previsão de comportamentos futuros, de acordo com as crenças pessoais de cada participante, utilizando-se também a Escala de Ajustamento Conjugal de Spanier, (DSS - Dyadic Satisfaction Scale, 1976). A amostra foi composta por 35 participantes, 16 homens e 19 mulheres, com idade média de 36,80 anos, com desvio médio de 10,253, sendo que 9 eram seguidores da corrente neo-pentecostal, 10 de igreja tradicional e 16 da igreja pentecostal, sendo sub-divididos em grupos em relação à satisfação conjugal. Trabalhamos com a temática da satisfação conjugal como elemento central tendo o presente trabalho, corroborado com a maioria dos aspectos já afirmados em pesquisas anteriores, com destaque para as relações de gênero como variável diferencial da conjugalidade, surpreendendo o número maior de mulheres satisfeitas em relação aos homens, a influência da religião pode ser notada no que se refere aos modelos paternos de identificação, atuando como rede de apoio e formação de valores morais e éticos. Em relação aos tipos de conflito e formas de enfrentamento a amostra evangélica é similar aos dados de casais, independente da variável religiosa

With the rising age of marriage and previous research failing to address a more detailed look at more descriptive measures of satisfaction, the current study examined the association between age of first marriage and marital stability, satisfaction, sexual satisfaction and frequency, effective communication, conflict, and problem areas. Results from a sample of 470 participants who completed the RELATE Questionnaire indicated that across the board, those who married from ages 20-24 had better marital outcomes than those who delayed marriage until their thirties and beyond. These results fit a possible theory of explanation that when it comes to age of marriage, a "balanced is better" approach may be more beneficial to couples when it comes to successful marriages.

The growing population of the United States is linked to the increasing migration of individuals from other countries. With migration comes the development of cross-cultural and interracial romantic relationships, many leading to marriages. This qualitative grounded theory study sought to understand how a migrant partner's adjustment process, acculturation, contributes to cross-cultural marriages. The main research question and purpose of this study was to investigate the role of acculturation in marital satisfaction among mixed Caucasian and Asian American heterosexual couples. This study utilized multiple data sources and a purposive sampling of 11 mixed Asian and Caucasian heterosexual married couples, with one partner who identified themselves as being Caucasian and U.S. born, and the other as Asian American and an immigrant to the United States. Data were coded and analyzed to identify themes and patterns that emerged from the participants' experiences. The study revealed the following emergent themes representing the couples' common acculturative stressors: (a) challenges related to English language proficiency, (b) communication styles differences, (c) cultural learning, and (d) difficulties due to the lack of social support. The findings of this study provide marriage and family counselors with important data related to how married couples experience acculturation as well as the unique stressors associated with a migrating partner's process. Implications for positive social change include information related to the development of interventions to address common acculturative stressors identified during this study, as well as data to support clinicians and clients when identifying appropriate coping strategies.