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Showing 1 to 20 of 43 for “"marital relationships"”.
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Eriksonian ego identity and intimacy in marital relationships
… a prerequisite to the establishment of intimate relationships in adulthood. The sample consisted of 400 couples. Their names were drawn from a population of 1600 names which had been compiled from twelve church directories. The adjusted sample was 378 couples of which 88 chose to participate by …
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Balance of power, adjustment, and violence within marital relationships
… relative to their partner. The mean levels of marital adjustment and marital violence were compared among the three groups. The hypotheses proposed that the power balance groups would differ in their reports of marital adjustment, marital violence, and marital stability. Questionnaires measured …
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The role of workplace supervisor support in cargivers' marital relationships
… to other aspects of caregivers’ lives such as marital relationships (Bookwala, 2009). Therefore, grounded in Conservation of Resources (COR) theory, I sort to understand the mechanisms through which supervisor support in the workplace can permeate the family domain and influence employed …
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The Influence of Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) on Marital Relationships
… influence of mild cognitive impairment (MCI) on marital relationships. MCI refers to age-related decline in memory and other cognitive processes that do not necessarily interfere with daily activities or the maintenance of social relationships with others (Petersen et al., 1999). Using social …
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Product attachment in the context of gender differentiation and marital relationships
The aim of this qualitative study was to explore product attachment among men and women in conjugal associations and to design a series of household objects to encourage product attachment. A preliminary study based on the interview responses of 16 married individuals was used to identify themes …
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An Investigation of Selected Interpersonal and Communication Variables in Marital Relationships
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The Resentful Embittered Personality, Adjustment and Depression in Student and Marital Relationships
… to further understand the nuances of these relationships between the REPS and the specific facets from the Big Five measure of personality. The focus of the third study was to examine the REPS with respect to both well-being and distress along with measures of stress. Finally, the fourth …
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I rest your loving obedient wife: marital relationships in Scotland 1650-1850
… my thesis. This work explores the nature of the marital relationship during the period 1650 to 1850. It investigates how power was negotiated between couples during a period when marriage was expected to be patriarchal but also to provide happiness and fulfilment for both husband and wife. …
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Love and Sexuality in a Gujarati Village: Men and pre-‐marital relationships
… or women and although men are central to these relationships, they are often ignored. This thesis concentrates on this gap in the literature and focuses on how masculinities are shaped by the negotiation of love and sexuality, particularly in pre-‐marital relationships. The few studies of …
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A Qualitative Examination of the Relationship Attachment Model (RAM) with Married Individuals
… alternative model to understanding closeness in relationships, using deductive qualitative analysis (DQA; Gilgun, 2010). Qualitative data from married couples was used to explore whether the five bonding dynamics (i.e. know, trust, rely, commit, and sex), proposed by the RAM, existed in their …
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Marriage in the 21st Century: From a State of Confusion to a State of Being
… individuals who viewed their long-term committed relationships as a marriage. This was done in order to begin to reveal the underlying meaning of marriage for some people in 21st century America. This hermeneutic phenomenological study used Bowlby’s (1969, 1982) Attachment Theory and …
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An IPA: orthodox Jewish women, adherence to the laws of family purity and the marital relationship
… and wife) and how such observance impacts their marital relationships. Interpretative phenomenological Analysis (lPA) was employed to access the lived experiences of these women. Analysis of the results highlighted the women's experience of physical separation from their spouse as paramount. This …
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Marriage expectancies of pre-World War II and post-World War II students of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute
… Several investigators in the area of marital relationships express the need for further research on the predictive value of factors existing in the lives of individuals before marriage as they may or may not influence marital success. One factor which these investigators feel may be …
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An Analysis of the Relationship Between Nurturing Spousal Friendship and Marital Quality
… and wives to the health and well-being of their marital relationships. The present study evaluated the relationship between spousal friendship and marital quality. It made a gender analysis as well.</p> <p>Method</p> <p>The Dyadic Adjustment Scale, the Caring Relationship Inventory, and a …
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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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The experience and meaning of women’s extramarital affairs
… the phenomenon of clandestine heterosexual extramarital affairs for women in long-term relationships. Five women were recruited from two cities on Vancouver Island, B.C. During individual, in-depth, audiotaped, personal interviews, the women retrospectively described their experience of an …
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Women and marriage in Pedeir Keinc y Mabinogi
… mind, takes into account issues such as kinship relationships, agency and independence and the effect of social expectations for the roles of married women, before and after marriage. The thesis attempts to analyse the diverse features of the various marital relationships from the perceived …
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Change of Condition: Women's Rhetorical Strategies on Marriage, 1710-1756
… these women to argue for more egalitarian marital relationships without overtly calling for a change in the wife's traditional role. The advancement of this ideal of companionacy gave women a means of promoting gender equality in marriage at a time when they considered marriage risky but …
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Tetraplegia : the psychosocial problems encountered by black patients once discharged from the hospital
… patient and his/her family, which are: Negative marital relationships and desertion by the healthier spouse. Disturbed family relationships. Negative self-esteem and lack of self-confidence due to physical limitations. Poor quality of life, stigmatization by the community and inaccessibility in …
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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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