Three hundred eighty-seven responses to a questionnaire distributed in Spring, 1976 to married students, who had graduated from the College of Education of The Florida State University, were analyzed to identify selected sociological and situational factors in marriage associated with doctoral study perceived to be sources of conflict, to identify those selected sociological and situational factors in marriage associated with doctoral study perceived to be sources of conflict by those doctoral degree recipients who became divorced, and to identify the perceived usefulness of certain identified preventative and ameliorative measures in the mitigation of the conflicts. In addition, the rate of divorce among doctoral degree recipients determined from the questionnaire and a follow-up telephone survey, conducted four years later on a ten percent sample of the population, was compared to the rate of divorce in the general population and shown to be greater than that of the general population. / Each of the 39 situational and sociological factors associated with doctoral study was rated by the respondents on a five-point scale from very helpful or positive to very harmful or negative. Using the number and percentage of responses to each item, as well as a chi square test using the presence or absence of stress as the independent variable, 17 factors were identified as being perceived as sources of marital conflict by the total population. An additional 8 factors were perceived by those individuals who reported stress during doctoral study as being sources of conflict; the individuals reporting no stress during doctoral study, also, indicated one of these factors was a source of conflict when it influenced the marriage. / To determine those factors perceived as sources of conflict by the divorced respondents, a chi square test was conducted on the responses to the same factors using marital status as the independent variable. Ten factors were identified by married and divorced respondents as being sources of conflict. An additional 10 factors were identified by the divorced respondents as being sources of conflict; the married respondents, also, reported--one of these factors was a source of conflict when it affected the marital relationship. / Twelve measures perceived as useful in the mitigation of marital conflict associated with doctoral study were rated by the respondents on a five-point scale from very helpful to very harmful. Comparing the number and percentage of replies to each item response and a chi square test which utilized marital status as the independent variable, 10 measures were identified as being useful by both married and divorced respondents in the mitigation of marital conflicts associated with doctoral study. The married respondents identified one additional measure as being useful. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-03, Section: A, page: 1023. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1981.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74442 |
| Contributors | FISCHER, SUSANNE ELIZABETH., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 244 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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