This study aims at investigating the sexual relationship and intimate of postpartum spouses and the effect of those relationships on their marital satisfaction. A sample of 128 postpartum couples having given birth to their first child (6-36 weeks postpartum) participated in this study during 2009. A nonexperimental, cross-sectional survey design was conducted using Sexual Interest and Desire Inventory, Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationship Scale and Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale. Using univariate and multivariate regression analysis, results suggested that there were higher levels of sexual desire reported by husbands and there was a significant positive relationship between sexuality and marital satisfaction, for both genders. Moreover, high intimacy diminished the negative effects of marital satisfaction due to reported low sexual satisfaction. Regarding negative effects of marital dissatisfaction in first-time families, it is important to assess main related issues such as postpartum sexuality and intimacy, to obtain knowledge for health care providers to provide support to the postpartum families.

Work-family balance is often defined as the extent to which individuals are satisfied and functioning well, both in work and family domains, with the lowest level of role conflict (Clark, 2000). In the present study, we sought to identify longitudinal profiles of work-family balance and examine their mediating roles in the relationship between job control and core self-evaluations and turnover intentions. Data were gathered from 789 Finnish employees through an online survey across 3 time points covering a period of 2 years (2008 -2010). The results of the latent profile analysis identified 4 distinct longitudinal work-family balance profiles: active balance (31.71%), passive balance (20.84%), beneficial balance (27.71%), and harmful balance (19.72%). The results also showed that the higher the perception of job control and the greater the core self-evaluations reported by employees, the more likely they were to be in the beneficial profile than in other profiles. Furthermore, turnover intentions were significantly higher in the harmful balance profile group, compared with other profile groups. Moreover, work-family balance profiles mediated the relationship between core self-evaluations and turnover intentions. Our study broadens the previous literature by longitudinally examining work-family balance profiles and by testing the linkages between profiles and their antecedents and outcomes.

This study examined the identity profiles that upper secondary school Finnish student-athletes show and the extent to which these profiles were associated with their athletic and academic achievements and withdrawal from sports and school. A total of 391 adolescent athletes (51% female) completed assessments of student and athletic identity four times during their time in upper secondary school. Using growth mixture modeling, three groups were identified: dual identity (77%), changing identity (5%), and athletic identity (18%). The higher the academic achievement was at Time 1, the more likely the athletes were to show a dual identity than an athletic identity profile. Similarly, athletes with dual identity showed higher subsequent academic achievement at Time 4 than those with an athletic identity profile. Finally, athletes with dual identity were more likely and athletes with athletic identity less likely to withdraw from sport activities during upper secondary school than would be expected by chance.

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