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Showing 1 to 20 of 73 for “"cohabiting"”.
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Relational Financial Satisfaction of Cohabiting Couples
… study tested a model of factors affecting cohabiting couples' relational financial satisfaction, defined as<em> the contentment an individual has with how financial issues are handled within his or her domestic romantic relationship</em>, and examined the relations within these factors. …
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Commitment in long term cohabiting couples
Researchers on close relationships presupposed marriage as a central measure of successful commitment and identified a mix of structural and personal motives underlying commitment. Debate on how to measure and predict commitment has been prompted by its conceptual complexity and the importance of …
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Cohabiting Third Place: Integrating Natural Hydrology with Healing Architecture
Washington D.C. has been ranked third among U.S. cities in terms of its percentage of youth who have reported a severe major depressive episode. Depression, stress, anxiety are the uninvited visitors of our day-to-day urban living. Most of the time we ignore our mental health unless we reach the …
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The Influence Of Past Abuse On Heterosexual Cohabiting Couples' Relationship Types
… witnessed or experienced abuse on heterosexual cohabiting couples' Premarital Personal and Relationship Evaluation for Cohabiting Couples (PREPARE-CC) couple relationship types. The researcher utilized preexisting data from 5,000 cohabiting couples who had previously participated in the PREPARE …
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Married, Cohabiting, and Dating Couples Presenting for Couple and Family Therapy
… nature and presenting concerns of different-sex cohabiting couples attending therapy. Research suggests that cohabiting and dating couples have lower levels of commitment, which makes their participation in therapy idiosyncratic (Smock, 2000). Information on this group of cohabiters and daters …
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Good lovin': the effects of stressors on sexual satisfaction among non-cohabitating, cohabiting, and married couples
<p>"The negative relationship between stress and sexual satisfaction is one that has not been studied extensively when it comes to the differences between non-cohabitating, cohabitating, and married couples. It is important to understand how stress may affect sexual satisfaction in different groups …
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Keeping All the Balls in the Air: Social Class and Stress, Relationship Commitment, and Marital Expectations among Cohabiting Young Adults
… the resources to transition to marriage. While cohabiting, they occupy social roles such as parent, worker, and student, which may produce stress; this may make it difficult for young adults to juggle multiple roles and “keep all the balls in the air” while thinking about relationship commitment …
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The financial feasibility of marriage for women receiving TANF: An analysis of six states
… a single parent family, a family receiving TANF, cohabiting couple with two wage earners, cohabiting couple with one wage earner, a married family with two wage earners, a married couple with one wage earner, a unmarried couple with an infant (unmarried fragile family), and a married couple with …
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Economic consequences of family dissolution
… in dissolution outcomes between married and cohabiting parents in Germany. The dissertation thus aims to link institutional regulations of welfare states with the actual income situation of families. To achieve this, a research design was developed that has never been used for the analysis of …
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It Takes Two: Partner Effects on Unintended Pregnancy in Dyads
… births are particularly high among married and cohabiting adult women. Though family planning behaviors occur in a dyadic context with potentially joint influences of men and women on contraceptive use and pregnancy, most research on pregnancy and contraceptive use is based on reports from only …
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Health, health insurance coverage, health care service utilization and family structure among children of immigrants
… evidence has shown that children in single- and cohabiting-parent families have worse health and access to health care, very little is known about whether and how family structure plays a role in health and health care among children of immigrants. As a result, it is also unknown whether the …
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Patterns of Partnership and Childbearing in Latin America: Changes in Family Formation from the 1970s to the 2020s
… cohabitation and of children born into cohabiting and single-mother families. I demonstrate a clear educational gradient, with formal marriage associated with higher levels of education. Previous research has suggested that this educational gradient is decreasing over time; I show that …
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Girlfriend or esposa? Cultural scenarios in translation
… and wife. In Mexico, both married and unmarried cohabiting couples are referred to as esposo and esposa, terms usually translated as 'husband' and 'wife'. By using schema theory, American and Mexican cultural scenarios of marriage are developed and compared. The characteristics most important to …
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African American couples at midlife: life course and gender perspectives
… aged 35-52, in 10 couples, married or cohabiting for 3-30 years. Basic to this study was the assumption that men and women are capable of and competent at intimate relationships. Guided by the theoretical perspectives of life course and gender, this research examined how men and women …
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Premarital cohabitation as a pathway into marriage. An investigation into how premarital cohabitation is transforming the institution of marriage in Ireland. Athlone as a case study.
… in Athlone in 2007. The sample comprised cohabiting couples with plans to marry, cohabiting couples with no plans to marry, as well as couples who married without living together first. Respondents also filled in an event history calendar, recording key events in their lives, since the age …
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Role of Perceived Partner Responsiveness on Mexican American Males' Pain Severity and Depressive Symptomatology
… symptomatology among a sample of 62 married and cohabiting Mexican American men, the majority of whom were first generation Mexican Americans, with chronic back and/or neck pain. The cultural indicators were not found to act as moderators in the analyses that involved pain severity and depressive …
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Impact of Unintended pregnancy on HIV viral load outcomes among postpartum women living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: clues from postpartum adherence clubs for antiretroviral therapy trial
… the analysis (mean age: 28.7 years, 42% married/cohabiting, 75% with a parity≥2, and 86% with a VL<50 copies/ml), 57% reported that their most recent pregnancy was unintended. Compared to women aged 18-24 years, older women had a lower relative odds of unintended pregnancy [25-28 years, adjusted …
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Prevalence and determinants of unplanned pregnancy in HIV-infected and uninfected pregnant women seeking antenatal care in Cape Town, South Africa
… years (SD: 5.63), 43% of women were married or cohabiting and 20% were nulliparous. The LMUP performed well across all groups (Cronbach's α=0.84). Levels of unplanned pregnancy were higher in HIV-infected versus HIV-uninfected women (50% vs. 33%, p<0.001); and highest in women not on ART. …
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An Application of Hirschi's Theory of Social Control to the Study of Partner Abuse
… contact violence. Data was collected on 200 cohabiting heterosexual males. Half of these males were in court-ordered counseling programs, the other half belonged to civic or religious organizations. Crosstabulations were used to analyze the data. The Chi-square test of independence was used …
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Attitudes towards family and marriage in time and context: using two British birth cohorts for comparison
… and: a) transition to first marriage for non-cohabiting cohort members (BCS and NCDS); b) transition to first marriage of cohabiting cohort members (BCS) and c) dissolution of first marriage (NCDS). The main findings show some evidence of both the selection and adaptation effects of attitudes …
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