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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"cohabiting couples"”.
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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
… maintenance. This study focused on five couples together for at least 13 years outside the institutional grooves and prescribed roles of marriage. Johnson's (1991a) social-psychological model of commitment types embedded within a social structure guided the research. The couples defined …
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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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Girlfriend or esposa? Cultural scenarios in translation
In the United States only married couples are called by the terms husband 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 …
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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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Dyadic Emotion Processes in the Prediction of Intimate Partner Violence
… sample of 156 heterosexual married and/or cohabiting couples completed measures of violence and marital satisfaction and engaged in two discussions of problematic incidents within the relationship. Participants rated affectively intense moments of the interaction for specific emotions, …
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Examining cohabitation in emerging adulthood
… through relationship transitions for cohabiting couples.
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Formalised cohabitation: a critical and comparative study of an element of English law in a normative regime
… family unit, headed by apparently committed cohabiting couples, who are neither married nor in registered civil partnerships. The thesis critically analyses the 2006-7 work of the Law Commission in London, the apparent government reluctance to take this further despite Scottish implementation …
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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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Implicit Family Process and Couples Rules: A Comparison of American and Hungarian Families
… to their family position and gender. Married couples may view their relationship rules differently than couples who cohabit. This study utilized the Family Implicit Rules Profile (FIRP) and the Couples Implicit Rules Profile (CIRP) Questionnaires to answer these research questions. The …
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Gender and Unpaid Work During Lockdown
… led to a huge increase in the number of couples where the woman was in paid work and the man was not. This dissertation looks at individuals from heterosexual, cohabiting couples during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a particular focus on couples where the woman did more …
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Interpersonal functioning and depression: Reassurance seeking, negative self-verification, and the integration of sociotropic and autonomous personality styles.
… An online community sample of 135 married or cohabiting couples completed a series of measures that assessed depression, interpersonal behaviours, and personality styles. Depression was measured again 3 months later in 78 couples. For husbands, high levels of rejection were always associated …
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Non-formalised cohabitation : does the Swedish model of statutory regulation provide a solution for South Africa?
… is demonstrated by the recognition afforded to couples in same-sex relationships as well as those in customary marriages. Proposals have also been set forth regarding law reform to protect the rights and interests of those involved in domestic partnerships. The Domestic Partnership Bill was …
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The economic well-being of married women in a comparative perspective: The effect of income, work and union on financial satisfaction.
… in income sharing between married and cohabiting couples. There is a growing tendency to see cohabitation as an equivalent alternative to marriage and I investigate how different these two unions are for womanâ€TMs economic well-being. The type of union as a governing structure is a …
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Essays on Noncognitive Skills
… By comparing children of married and cohabiting couples I find that marriage increases child skills relative to cohabitation, which suggests that marriage is inherently beneficial, due perhaps to higher spousal commitment.The second chapter is motivated by findings from previous …