The purpose of the current study was to investigate the factor structure of the Spouse Observation Checklist-Revised using attachment theory as an organizational framework. The study used archival data from a community sample of 92 heterosexual childless couples married 1-5 years and 4 lesbian couples (N = 192). Separate exploratory factor analysis on the Perception of Self-Behavior and Perception of Partner-Behavior items revealed symmetrical 4-factor structures with factors reflecting emotional support, physical intimacy, instrumental support, and disengagement. Separate analyses examined associations of the four identified factors with the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale to begin to place the SOC-R within a nomological network.

Fifty-one male and 57 female college undergraduate students enrolled in an introductory psychology course responded to the Roe-Siegelman PCR Questionnaire, a modified form of Tharp's (1963b) Marital Role Expectation Form (MRE), and a Family Integration Scale as fulfillment of research participation requirements. Previous research had indicated that generally children who experienced love and warmth in their childhood home had marital role expectations of friendliness, spontaneity, adaptability, trust, responsibility, and leadership, while those who experienced rejecting and neglecting parental behaviors were more likely to have expectations of being seclusive, guilty, hostile, rigid, mistrustful, and irresponsible.

Zusammenfassung Diese Diplomarbeit befasst sich mit dem ehelichen Güterrecht; einem Thema, das sowohl für den Alltag der Ehegatten wichtig ist, als auch für diejenigen, die mit einer verheirateten Person rechtlich handeln. Die Arbeit richtet sich vor allem auf den Vergleich der gegenwärtigen rechtlichen Regelung, am 1. 1. 2014 in Kraft getreten, mit der vorherigen Rechtsregelung. Diese Arbeit besteht aus drei Teilen, die in Kapitel unterteilt werden, sowie aus der Einleitung und der Schlussfolgerung. Der erste Teil behandelt die historische Entwicklung der rechtlichen Regelung der Vermögensbeziehungen zwischen Ehegatten auf unserem Rechtsgebiet seit der Gültigkeit des Allgemeinen bürgerlichen Gesetzbuches vom Jahr 1811, über das Gesetz über Familienrecht vom Jahr 1949, bis zum bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch vom Jahr 1964, wirksam bis 31. 12. 2013. Der zweite, zugleich wichtigste und umfangreichste Teil analysiert ausführlich das eheliche Güterrecht im bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch vom Jahr 2012, das mit dem 1. 1. 2014 in Kraft getreten ist. Die einzelnen Kapitel befassen sich mit der Gütergemeinschaft einerseits was Entstehung, Auflösung, Vergleich und Schutz dritter Personen betrifft, andererseits was die Regelungen betrifft, denen sie sowohl vom Umfang als auch verwaltungsrechtlich unterliegen kann. Diese sind: die...

CHARLES UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE Faculty of Science Department of Demography and Geodemography PhD study program Mrg. Saule Dyussupova IMPACT OF ETHNICITY ON RECENT FERTILITY CHANGE BY MARITAL STATUS IN KAZAKHSTAN PhD dissertation Tutor: Prof. RNDr. Jitka Rychtaříková, CSc. Prague - 2011 Dedicated to my parents - Khanshaym and Tuyakh I declare that this dissertation is my own work under the supervisor of Prof. RNDr. Jitka Rychtaříková CSc. Where other sources of information have been used, they have been acknowledged. I agree that if any results gained while working on this thesis will be used outside the Charles University in Prague, written permission of the University will be necessary. I agree to lend this thesis for study reasons and agree that the thesis will be added to the borrower's database. In Prague, 14.05.2011 Saule Dyussupova Acknowledgements I would like to open the first paper of my dissertation with the deepest expression of gratitude to all teachers for their time, patience, and hard work, to those who made my study at the Charles University in Prague successful, exciting and pleasant. It was an unforgettable experience. You were always there to help and share knowledge, skills and ideas with me. My special words of appreciation go to my dear tutor Prof. RNDr. Jitka Rychtaříková CSc, whose...

0 Abstrakt The diploma thesis deals with closeness of relationship and marital satisfaction among people suffering from obesity. The main research question is if the level of marital satisfaction depends on BMI (Body Mass Index). These issues are first discussed on theoretical level. Then we used the Locke - Wallace, RCI and SF - 36 questioneries in the research part. The results shows that there is no direct connection between BMI and marital satisfaction but we found some other factors that influence the marital satisfaction. Keywords: marriage, obesity, marital satisfaction

This diploma thesis deals with community property ("CP"). CP is one of the institutional property regimes. CP is known from the times of Roman Empire and made significant progress until nowadays. In Europe, CP differs from country to country. In the Czech Republic, CP is created by law at the time spouses enter into marriage. CP can be modificated before entering into a marriage as well as after. CP can be modificated by spouses or by court. CP can also be avoided. Modification of CP has its effects; if existed, it must be adjusted, and has also significant effects on spouses' creditors. CP's legal base is very brief and lets wide scope of answers unanswered. For example, Civil Code nr. 89/2012 as well as Civil Code nr. 40/1964 does not specify the age when engaged couple can make a prenuptial agreement or uses indefinite legal terms (spouses' typical house equipment, etc.) The thesis is composed of 10 chapters and describes the legal basis for modification of CP, and the effects of modification of CP. The goal of my work is to describe the subject of CP, how CP works in practice, and describe how to modificate a CP. Chapter one (Historical excursion) leads us through history of this legal institute, starting in Roman Empire and ending with new Civil Code (nr. 89/2012). Chapter two (CP in Europe) is a...

University of Macau / Faculty of Law

A literatura sobre separação e recasamento indica que tais eventos são fontes de estresse para toda a família, especialmente quando os filhos passam por um momento de transição ecológica, tal com a entrada no primeiro ano, quando são exigidas, tanto das crianças quanto dos pais, novas habilidades para lidar com as demandas do novo contexto. A partir do Modelo Bioecológico do Desenvolvimento Humano, os objetivos do estudo foram: a) comparar as práticas parentais de mães de famílias nucleares, de famílias monoparentais e recasadas em transição recente e de famílias monoparentais e recasadas estáveis; b) comparar as habilidades sociais, os problemas de comportamento e a competência acadêmica das crianças das diferentes famílias; c) comparar os recursos do ambiente das diferentes configurações familiares que podem contribuir para o desempenho escolar das crianças; d) investigar possíveis preditores das habilidades sociais, dos problemas de comportamento e de competência acadêmica. Participaram da pesquisa 160 mães (33 que estavam casadas, 33 que estavam separadas há menos de três anos e 33 separadas há mais de três anos, 31 que estavam recasadas há menos de três anos e 30 recasadas há mais de três anos), cujos filhos passavam pela transição para o primeiro ano do ensino fundamental em cinco escolas públicas municipais. As 22 professoras das crianças participaram como informantes. Os dados foram coletados com as mães individualmente nas suas residências ou locais de trabalho; responderam a um questionário sobre caracterização familiar, a um inventário de práticas parentais, a um inventário de habilidades sociais e de problemas de comportamento, a um inventário de recursos do ambiente familiar e a um questionário sobre o nível socioeconômico. Em seguida, foram coletados os dados com as professoras das crianças cujas mães atenderam aos critérios de inclusão. As professoras responderam a um inventário de habilidades sociais, de problemas de comportamento e de competência acadêmica. Os resultados das análises de variância indicaram que, comparadas às demais famílias, as mães de famílias nucleares apresentaram mais práticas parentais positivas, mais recursos do ambiente familiar e seus filhos apresentaram mais habilidades sociais de autocontrole e cooperação com pares e menos problemas de comportamento. Já as famílias monoparentais em transição recente em relação às outras, apresentaram menos recursos do ambiente familiar e as crianças pertencentes a essas famílias apresentaram menos habilidades sociais e mais problemas de comportamento. As análises de regressão indicaram que as práticas parentais negativas e a qualidade da relação da criança com o pai biológico foram as variáveis que tiveram maior poder preditivo sobre as habilidades sociais, os problemas de comportamento e a competência acadêmica das crianças, nos ambientes familiar e escolar. Para as avaliações das mães, essas variáveis contribuíram para explicar de 48% a 61% da variância dos comportamentos e da competência acadêmica das crianças no modelo final de predição, enquanto que para as avaliações das professoras, os valores ficaram entre 9% e 17%. Destaca-se que, para as mães e para as professoras, as crianças, independentemente de terem passado por transições familiares, apresentaram muitas habilidades sociais e não se diferenciaram quanto à competência acadêmica. Tais resultados sinalizam recursos individuais que podem funcionar como fatores de proteção. / The theory on separation and remarriage indicates that such events are sources of stress for the whole family, especially when children are undergoing ecological transition such as entering the first year, when new skills are required of both children and parents for dealing with the demands of the new context. Taking into account the Bioecological Model of Human Development, the study aimed: a) to compare the parental practices of mothers in nuclear, single-parent, remarried families in recent transition and single-parent and remarried stable families, b) to compare the social skills, behavior problems and academic competence of children from different families, c) to compare the home environment resources of different family configurations which may contribute to the academic performance of the children, d) to investigate possible predictors of social skills and behavior, academic competence problems. The participants were 160 mothers (33 mothers were from nuclear families, 33 from single-parent families separated for less than three years, 33 from single-parent families separated for more than three years, 31 from remarried families for less than three years and 30 from remarried for more than three years) whose children attended the first year of elementary public school. The 22 teachers of the children participated as informants. Data were collected through individual interviews with the mothers in their homes or workplaces. Mothers answered a questionnaire about family characteristics, an inventory of parental practices, an inventory of social skills and behavior problems, an inventory of home environment resources and a questionnaire of socioeconomic status. Then the data were collected with the teachers of children whose mothers met the inclusion criteria. The teachers answered to an inventory of social skills, behavior problems and academic competence. The results of variances analysis indicated that mothers from nuclear families had more positive parental practices, and they had more home environment resources. The analysis also indicated that children from nuclear families had more social skills of self-control and cooperation with peers and had less behavior problems than children and mothers from other families. Mothers from families which recently become single-parent had less home environment resources. The children from these families also had less social skills and had more behavior problems than children and mothers from other families. Regression analysis indicated that negative parental practices and the quality of the relationship between child and biological father were the variables with more predictive power about social skills, behavior problems and academic competence of children in family and in school environment. According to the mothers, these variables contributed to explain 48% to 61% of the variance in behavior and academic competence of children in the final model prediction. To the teachers ratings, the values were between 9% and 17%. Globally, the study highlights the importance of the fact that, for mothers and teachers, children from different families had many social skills and dont differ in terms of academic competence. These results indicate that individual resources should function as protective factors.

by Siu Fung Ying. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-54). / Abstract and questionnare in English and Chinese. / ABSTRACT --- p.ii / ACKNOWLEDGEMENT --- p.iii / TABLE OF CONTENTS --- p.iv / LIST OF TABLES --- p.v / Chapter CHAPTER 1: --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Chapter CHAPTER 2: --- METHODOLOGY --- p.14 / Chapter CHAPTER 3: --- RESULT --- p.20 / Chapter CHAPTER 4: --- DISCUSSION --- p.37 / REFERENCES --- p.48 / APPENDIX --- p.55

The correlation between locus of control and marital satisfaction is examined as part of a longitudinal study spanning 44 years and 3 time points. It is predicted that as locus of control has more of an external orientation marital satisfaction will be lower. Participants include high school juniors and seniors in the state of Washington from 1966 with follow-up surveys in 1980 and 2010. Using ordinary least squares regressions, marital satisfaction scores in 1980 or 2010 are predicted by locus of control scores from either 1966 or 1980 with control variables that include gender, income, educational attainment, occupational prestige, and military service. Partial support for the presented hypotheses is found and discussed. Locus of control as measured in middle adulthood predicted marital satisfaction measured contemporaneously. However, in contrast to previous reports, none of the control variables significantly predicted marital satisfaction. A primary limitation that is discussed regards the measurement of locus of control occurring in a manner without any established psychometric data to confirm reliability or validity. Understanding the relationship between locus of control and marital satisfaction may help improve case conceptualization and treatment for couples seeking treatment. Considerations for future research are explored.