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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"marital distress"”.
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Marital therapists' own marital distress and its perceived impact on their clinical work
… questions: 1. the incidence and distribution of marital distress, including the response to distress among marital therapists and 2. how therapists view their personal experience of marital distress and its perceived impact on their clinical work. A questionnaire was designed to address these …
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Sexual Satisfaction in Older Marriages: Effects of Family-of-Origin Distress and Marital Distress
… of 55 and 75) was affected by family-of-origin distress (recent measure of recollection of childhood experiences) and marital distress (measure of current marital relationship) for husbands and wives. The hypotheses of this study were that both family-of-origin distress and marital distress …
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The Effects of Premenstrual Syndrome Symptomatology on Marital Satisfaction
… by determining the effect PMS has on marital satisfaction. Nineteen female subjects reporting PMS symptoms and their partners completed the study. The Marital Satisfaction Inventory - Revised (MSI-R) and the Moos Menstrual Distress Questionnaire-Form T (MDQ-form T) were used to …
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Marriage Mentoring with Couples in Marital Crisis: A Qualitative Study
… with Christian couples who had experienced marital distress but were reconciled. The responses were then analyzed. The study was unique in that it examined Christian couples in established marriages that were in marital distress when they started the mentoring process. Thirteen couples …
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Contingency contracting for the treatment of marital discord
… of contingency contracting for treating marital distress was tested using a within couple multiple baseline design across responses. Two distressed couples participated. Both couples experienced marginal improvements as measured by a spouse-tracking procedure, One couple demonstrated …
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Demand-Withdraw in the Marital Context of Depression
Consistently researchers have demonstrated that marital interactions of couples with and without a depressed partner differ. Given the high comorbidity of depression and marital distress, it is unclear whether observed communication patterns are due to marital distress or depression. Recent …
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Marital equity among dual-career couples: a longitudinal perspective
… explore the relationship between perceptions of marital equity and well-being and distress in marital, professional, and parental roles, how perceptions of equity change over time, and to examine efforts to restore equity. Differences in well-being and distress in roles are identified by gender …
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Dysfunctional marital beliefs and marital satisfaction : a multicultural analysis
… were asked to complete inventories measuring marital distress, dysfunctional beliefs about marital relationships, and socioeconomic status (SES). It was hypothesized there would be a negative relationship between the dysfunctional beliefs that married individuals held and their level of …
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A Comparison of the Marriage Checkup and Traditional Marital Therapy: Examining Distress Levels at Intake for Student Couples
… targeting couples at risk for severe marital distress. The purpose of this study was to examine married couples who participated in The Marriage Checkup for levels of individual and relational stress and severity of presenting problems recorded at intake. Differences were investigated …
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A Pilot Study Considering the Impact of Husband's Internet Based Pornography Use Upon Marital Adjustment, Satisfaction, and Intimacy Within a Clinical Sample.
… the association between pornography use and marital distress needed to be examined in a quantitative manner. There was a need to discover if, and or how, marital relationships are impacted by internet pornography use. Assessment instruments were used to measure internet pornography use …
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First time parents' perceptions of their relationship across the transition to parenthood
… to parenthood is a time of heightened risk for marital distress due to the changes and demands experienced by new parents. The quality of the marital relationship has an influence on child development and on adult well-being. The aim of this study was to investigate the changes in the marital …
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The Effects of Direct Supervision on Therapist Behavior: A Functional Analysis
… behavior in session appears to be improving, marital distress may increase. This is especially true when therapist adherence does not improve. This study further demonstrates that when the therapists did not intervene appropriately the clients either worsened, or at best, stayed the same. When …
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Satisfaction in interracial and intraracial relationships: a meta-analytic review
… conceptualized satisfaction (e.g., adjustment, marital distress), and the dimensionality of the measure used (i.e., is satisfaction investigated as unidimensional and global or is it multidimensional and investigated through features such as communication or conflict style). Using estimates of …
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Marital Satisfaction and Depression in a Study of Brazilian Women: A Cross-Cultural Test of the Marital Discord Model of Depression
… sectional research has linked depression and marital discord, with women frequently having a higher association between variables. Several longitudinal research studies have linked marital satisfaction to subsequent depression. The Marital Discord Model of Depression states that marital …
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Interpersonal Complementarity and Cardiovascular Reactivity in Younger, Middle-Aged, and Older Adult Couples
Objective: Marital distress confers risk for poor cardiovascular outcomes, largely through cardiovascular reactivity. The complementarity principle, which highlights reciprocity of behavior during interpersonal interactions, may improve our understanding of behavioral patterns that confer decreased …
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Helping with the Transition to Parenthood: An Evaluation of the Marriage Moments Program
… from Blaine Fowers' virtues based model of marital quality. Marriage Moments is a non-intrusive, mostly self-guided approach to marriage education, which is easily incorporated into childbirth education classes. The Marriage Moments curriculum stresses building marriage on a strong …