Sexual Adjustment, Marital Adjustment and Personal Growth of Husbands: A Panel Analysis

Dentler, Robert A.; Pineo, Peter C.

doi:10.2307/347402

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“…Early cross-sectional studies of marriage indicated that marital satisfaction steadily declined over time (Blood & Wolfe, 1960; Dentler & Pineo, 1960; Pineo, 1961, 1969). Subsequent studies that more fully sampled marriages across the entire life span revealed a much less monotonic and much more complex pattern, with marital satisfaction reaching low points after the birth of the first child and when children are adolescents, and reaching high points at the beginning of marriage and when children leave home (Anderson, Russell, & Schumm, 1983; Burr, 1970; Cowan & Pape-Cowan, 1988; Doherty & Jacobson, 1982; Rollins & Cannon, 1974; Thurnher, 1976).…”

Section: Affective Quality Of Marriage In Late Lifementioning

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Influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: A study of long-term marriages.

Levenson¹,

Carstensen²,

Gottman³

1994

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Self-reported affect and autonomic and somatic physiology were studied during three IS-min conversations (events of the day, problem area, pleasant topic) in a sample of 151 couples in long-term marriages. Couples differed in age (40-50 or 60-70) and marital satisfaction (satisfied or dissatisfied). Marital interaction in older couples was associated with more affective positivity and lower physiological arousal (even when controlling for affective differences) than in middle-age couples. As has previously been found with younger couples, marital dissatisfaction was associated with less positive affect, greater negative affect, and greater negative affect reciprocity. In terms of the relation between physiological arousal and affective experience, husbands reported feeling more negative the more they were physiologically aroused; for wives, affect and arousal were not correlated. These findings are related to theories of socioemotional change with age and of gender differences in marital behavior and health.

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Section: Affective Quality Of Marriage In Late Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: A study of long-term marriages.

Levenson¹,

Carstensen²,

Gottman³

1994

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

337

297

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“…Scholars studying marital sexuality and marital satisfaction argue that sexual satisfaction acts as a barometer of marital satisfaction (Perlman & Abramson, 1982; Schenk, Pfrang, & Rausche, 1983) and, moreover, that declines in sexual responsiveness are associated with declines in marital satisfaction and adjustment (Clark & Wallin, 1965; Dentler & Pineo, 1960). Behavioral approaches to studying the connections between socioemotional behavior and marital satisfaction, however, have failed to examine sexual expression in marriage or have lumped overt sexual interest with other forms of positive behavior (Berscheid, 1988).…”

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Socioemotional behavior and satisfaction in marital relationships: A longitudinal study.

Huston¹,

Vangelisti²

1991

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The interplay between 3 types of socioemotional behavior (affection, sexual interest, and negativity) and marital satisfaction was studied using data from newly married couples followed over 2 years. Affection and negativity (but not sexual interest) were consistently associated cross-sectionally with marital satisfaction. Longitudinal analyses revealed a gender-differentiated pattern suggesting a more complex relationship between satisfaction and marital behavior than previously shown. Negativity, regardless of whether it was expressed by the husband or the wife, was associated with declines in wives' (but not husbands') satisfaction. Wives of husbands who were relatively negative early in marriage became more negative themselves. Wives who were relatively less satisfied early in marriage (but not husbands) were married to spouses who became more negative with time.

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“…Many of the early studies of marital satisfaction relied on cross‐sectional designs (e.g., Blood & Wolfe, 1960; Dentler & Pineo, 1960) and therefore provided limited information about how marriage unfolds over time. In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of published longitudinal studies of marriage (see Berscheid, 1994; Gottman & Notarius, 2002, for reviews).…”

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Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce during the first fifteen years of parenthood

Hirschberger

Srivastava

Marsh

et al. 2009

Personal Relationships

103

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This study examines two overlapping longitudinal samples of U.S. couples with children, covering a period of 15 years after the first child's birth. The first sample extended from the pregnancy with a first child until that child was 5.5 years old; the second from ages 4.5 to 14.5. Growth curve analyses revealed that marital satisfaction declined over 15 years for both husbands and wives. Attachment security measured in the second sample was associated with greater marital satisfaction, but did not buffer against declines in marital satisfaction over time. Husbands' lower initial level of marital satisfaction measured around the first child's transition to school was the only significant predictor of marital dissolution. The discussion emphasizes theoretical and practical implications of these findings. Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce in the first fifteen years of parenthoodMany married individuals experience significant changes in their lives after they become parents, including identity changes, shifting roles in the marriage and outside the family, and changes in the relationship with their own parents. How do couple relationships fare over time after partners become parents, and what are the factors that predict the long-term marital success of these couples? Over the past 50 years, a number of researchers have proposed that marital satisfaction peaks around the time of the wedding and tends to decline from that point on (e.g., Burgess & Wallin, 1953; Vailliant & Vailliant, 1993). Nonetheless, some recent evidence suggests that when children leave home couples experience an increase in their marital satisfaction (Gorchoff, John, & Helson, 2008). The transition to parenthood is a particularly important milestone event in a marriage that provides excitement and joy, but is also often related to distress in the individual parents. Thus, the Please address all correspondence to Gilad Hirschberger, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 52900, Israel. hirschg@gmail.com. NIH Public Access NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author Manuscript period following this transition may be a critical time for determining the health and longevity of the marital relationship.Many of the early studies of marital satisfaction relied on cross-sectional designs (e.g., Blood & Wolfe, 1960;Dentler & Pineo, 1960) and therefore provided limited information about how marriage unfolds over time. In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of published longitudinal studies of marriage (see Berscheid, 1994 and Notarius, 2002 for reviews). In spite of the growing longitudinal literature in this field, many studies suffer from methodological problems, such as failing to distinguish between childless couples and parents, and failing to analyze husbands' and wives' data separately (see Karney & Bradbury, 1995 for a review). Moreover, according to Karney and Bradbury (1995), over 60% of studies follow marriages for 5 years or less. Consequently, many st...

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Sexual Adjustment, Marital Adjustment and Personal Growth of Husbands: A Panel Analysis

Cited by 15 publications

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Influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: A study of long-term marriages.

Influence of age and gender on affect, physiology, and their interrelations: A study of long-term marriages.

Socioemotional behavior and satisfaction in marital relationships: A longitudinal study.

Attachment, marital satisfaction, and divorce during the first fifteen years of parenthood

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