Search Results for Marital Conflict

...’ involvement by children’s and family characteristics and model the long-term effects of fathers’ involvement on children’s outcomes in the transition to adulthood. Fathers are more involved with sons than with daughters and they disengage from adolescents with increasing marital conflict. We find beneficial...

... attainment and marriage timing because these two dimensions of the transition to adulthood have wide-ranging, long-lasting consequences. We find that children whose parents report strong marital affection and less spousal conflict attain higher levels of education and marry later than children whose parents...

... of children, we further limit the sample to women who have at least one birth in their first marriage. The sample meeting these criteria consists of 1,314 women. We use two measures to capture indicators of biological stress as well as marital fitness. The first is a marital conflict scale. Married female...

.... ( 1986 ). Marital Conflict, the Parent-Child Relationship, and Children's Self-Esteem . Family Relations , 35 , 403 – 10 . 10.2307/584368 Amato , P.R. , Loomis , L.S. , & Booth , A. ( 1995 ). Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-Being During Early...

... are posited as determinants of fertility. The first suggests that the attitudes or tastes of family members influence the demand for children. The second maintains that the nature of the husband-wife interaction (in terms of power, conflict, decision making, and marital satisfaction) determines family size...

... ). Children and Marital Conflict: The Impact of Family Dispute and Resolution . New York : Guilford . Emery , R.E. ( 1988 ). Marriage, Divorce, and Children’s Adjustment . Newbury Park, CA : Sage . Emery , R.E. ( 1994 ). Renegotiating Family Relationships: Divorce, Child Custody...

.... , & Osborne , L.N. ( 1997 ). Mom and Dad Are at it Again: Adolescent Perceptions of Marital Conflict and Adolescent Psychological Distress . Developmental Psychology , 33 , 333 – 50 . 10.1037/0012-1649.33.2.333 Conger , R.D. , Lorenz , F.O. , Elder , G.H. , & Simons , R.L...

... of the marital relationship. Disagreement is another dimension of the husband-wife relationship that is likely to be associated with both the strength of the emotional bond and fertility-limiting behaviors. Of course, high marital conflict that leads to divorce reduces fertility by terminating sexual...

... Support . Journal of Marriage and the Family , 55 , 23 – 38 . 10.2307/352954 Amato P.R. , Loomis L.S. , & Booth A. ( 1995 ). Parental Divorce, Marital Conflict, and Offspring Well-being During Early Adulthood . Social Forces , 73 , 895 – 915 . 10.2307/2580551...

.... ( 2001 ). Searching for the Roots of Marital Conflict in Uxoricides and Uxorious Husbands . In A. Booth , A.C. Crouter , & M. Clements (Eds.), Couples in Conflict (pp. 47 – 55 ). Mahwah, NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates . Rindfuss , R. , & VandenHeuvel...

... and the well-being of children: A meta-analysis . Psychological Bulletin , 110 , 26 – 46 . 10.1037/0033-2909.110.1.26 Amato , P. R. , Loomis , L. S. , & Booth , A. ( 1995 ). Parental divorce, marital conflict, and offspring well-being during early childhood . Social Forces , 73...

... interest in the effects of economic crises on family dynamics. Seminal studies of the Great Depression by Komarovsky ( 1940 ), Bakke ( 1940 ), Elder (1974/ 1998 ), and Liker and Elder ( 1983 ) carefully detailed the pernicious effects of unemployment, lost income, and economic hardship on marital conflict...

... more intense conflict and more serious marital problems compared with childless divorcees. Given that there is less room for a decline in well-being between waves when well-being is low to begin with—a phenomenon called “floor effects” in panel data (Wang et al. 2008 )—post-divorce declines in well...

... of this hypothesis, Sobolewski and Amato ( 2007 ) showed that when children experienced their parents’ marital conflict and divorce growing up, the children had no higher levels of subjective well-being in young adulthood if they were emotionally close to both parents rather than to one parent only...

... directly for several important factors such as family income, parenting practices, and marital conflict. Also, substantial attrition occurred in the cohort from age 7 to 23; although our investigations suggest that attrition did not bias our results, this is not a certainty. Moreover, we chose to delete...

... tensions resulting in eventual dissolution exist throughout the marriage. However, the assumption may not be appropriate for most marriages that dissolve, especially for unions of longer duration. We prefer an alternative hypothesis: that marital conflicts that eventually lead to dissolu- tion originate...

... to violence, marital relationship conflict and power dynamics, and family structure, as well as societal factors such as male dominance ideologies in society, societal tolerance of domestic violence, and perceptions about gender equality—all may result in differential risks for women to experiencing violence...

... drinking for married than for unmarried men, and extremely low reports of this problem for women regardless of marital status. Recent evidence suggests that excessive drinking is a particularly male pattern of social pathology; for example, marital conflict is associated with problem drinking for men...

... marriages. We seek to contribute to this literature by examining the effect of intercommunal conflict on women's marital outcomes. In addition, we show that communal violence can affect women's socioeconomic outcomes, such as education and bargaining power within the marriage. Finally, this article...

... Responsibilities and Involvement With Nonresident Children . Journal of Family Issues , 24 , 645 – 67 . 10.1177/0192513X03024005004 Margolin G. , Gordis E.B. , & John R.S. ( 2001 ). Coparenting: A Link Between Marital Conflict and Parenting in Two-Parent Families . Journal of Family...