Perceived Marital Problems in Taiwan

Pfeifer, Lexie Y.; Miller, Richard B.; Li, Tsui-Shan; Hsiao, Ying-Ling

doi:10.1007/s10591-012-9233-3

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“…327 couples completed the questionnaires and mailed them back to us. There are several researches used in the sample in this dataset that we have seen published (Chang et al 2012;Chen and Li 2012a, b;Li 2012;Pfeifer et al 2013;Su et al 2015). The data used in the current study was collected in 2013 (wave4) and 2014 (wave5), and hasn't yet been published.…”

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Sacrifice in a Supportive Marriage: Social Support as a Moderator Buffers the Negative Effects of Sacrifice in Marriage

Lin

Chen

2016

J Happiness Stud

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There is a long and interesting history in the study of the positive and negative effects of sacrifice, but few researchers have focused on how one's marital partner being the recipient of sacrifice may lead to different outcomes. Based on conservation of resources theory, we suggested that a partner's social support could be a potential moderator between sacrifice and well-being. To examine our hypothesis, we invited 141 Taiwanese couples to participate in our study. As expected, we found that only for those individuals whose partners provided less social support to them, the more they sacrificed, the lower marital satisfaction and the higher depressive symptoms they reported. In contrast, this effect was not found for the context in which a partner provided more social support. In addition, the negative correlation between a partner's sacrifice and one's depressive symptoms became stronger when an individual provided more support to their sacrificing partner. Our findings highlight that the relationship between sacrifice and wellbeing are contingent upon context, and are particularly dependent on whether the recipient of sacrifice can provide a supportive relationship.

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Sacrifice in a Supportive Marriage: Social Support as a Moderator Buffers the Negative Effects of Sacrifice in Marriage

Lin

Chen

2016

J Happiness Stud

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“…Along with this often an increased likelihood of in-law relationship problems that may negatively affect adult children’s marital well-being. Indeed, in-law relationship issues have been rated by Chinese spouses as major problems that hold critical implications for their personal and conjugal well-being (e.g., Pfeifer, Miller, Li, & Hsiao, 2013). Having conflicts with parents-in-law is often a trigger for or contributor to Chinese married adult children’s suicide attempts (Pearson, Phillips, He, & Ji, 2002), depression (Gao, Chan, You, & Li, 2010), intimate partner violence (Chan, Brownridge, Tiwari, Fong, & Leung, 2008), and marital distress (Song & Zhang, 2012; Wu et al, 2010).…”

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Chinese adult children’s perceived parents’ satisfaction with adult children’s marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children’s marital satisfaction

Cao

Fine

Fang

et al. 2018

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Based on three annual waves of data obtained from 265 Chinese couples during the early years of marriage and using an actor–partner interdependence mediation model with latent difference scores, this study examined the associations among adult children’s perceived parents’ satisfaction with their (i.e., adult children’s) marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children’s marital satisfaction. Results indicated that husbands’ and wives’ perceived parental satisfaction with their (i.e., adult children’s) marriage was indirectly associated with the changes in their (i.e., adult children’s) marital satisfaction via their (i.e., adult children’s) perceived relationship quality with either fathers-in-law (FILs) or mothers-in-law (MILs); however, when husbands’ and wives’ perceived relationship quality with FILs and MILs was considered simultaneously in a single model, only two indirect pathways were still retained: Husbands’ and wives’ perceived parents’ satisfaction (HPS and WPS) with adult children’s marriage was associated with the changes in wives’ marital satisfaction exclusively via wives’ perceived relationship quality with their MILs. Such findings suggest the particularly salient roles of the relationship between daughters-in-law and MILs in shaping Chinese adult children’s marital well-being and also highlight the importance of conceptualizing families as configurations of interdependent relationships across multiple households and examining marital well-being from ecological and social network perspectives.

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A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Marital Problems in Taiwan and the United States

Miller

Canlas

et al. 2015

Contemp Fam Ther

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Perceived Marital Problems in Taiwan

Cited by 7 publications

References 47 publications

Sacrifice in a Supportive Marriage: Social Support as a Moderator Buffers the Negative Effects of Sacrifice in Marriage

Sacrifice in a Supportive Marriage: Social Support as a Moderator Buffers the Negative Effects of Sacrifice in Marriage

Chinese adult children’s perceived parents’ satisfaction with adult children’s marriage, in-law relationship quality, and adult children’s marital satisfaction

A Cross-Cultural Study of Perceived Marital Problems in Taiwan and the United States

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