The Assessment of Marital Adjustment with Muslim Populations: A Reliability Study of the Locke–Wallace Marital Adjustment Test

Haque, Afshana; Davenport, Becky R.

doi:10.1007/s10591-009-9087-5

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“…The MAT and DAS are well-established measures and have strong psychometric credentials (Haque & Davenport, 2009; Prouty, Markowski, & Barnes, 2000). In the present study, internal reliability of marital adjustment was .80 and .71 for mothers and fathers at 1 month, and .83 and .77 for mothers and fathers at 12 months.…”

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Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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The present longitudinal study addressed the ongoing debate regarding the benefits and risks of infant-parent co-sleeping by examining associations between sleep arrangement patterns across the first year of life and infant and parent sleep, marital and family functioning, and quality of mothers’ behavior with infants at bedtime. Patterns of infant sleep arrangements across the infants’ first year were derived from information obtained from 139 families at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months of infant age in a U.S., central Pennsylvanian sample. Linkages between these patterns and parent-infant sleep, marital and coparenting stress, and maternal behavior at bedtime (from video-recordings) were assessed. Compared to families whose infants were solitary sleepers by 6 months, persistent co-sleeping was associated with sleep disruption in mothers but not in infants, although mothers in persistent co-sleeping arrangements reported that their infants had more frequent night awakenings. Persistent co-sleeping was also associated with mother reports of marital and coparenting distress, and lower maternal emotional availability with infants at bedtime (from home observations). Persistent co-sleeping appeared to be a marker of, though not necessarily a cause of, heightened family stress, although the present design did not enable strong tests of causal processes, and results may be particular to cultures that are not supportive of co-sleeping. Findings are discussed in terms of cultural contexts of infant sleep and the need for further investigations into the role of the health of the family system in influencing how parents structure infant sleep.

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Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Teti¹,

Shimizu²,

Crosby³

et al. 2016

Developmental Psychology

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“…When infants were 1 month old, mothers with live‐in partners completed the Locke‐Wallace Marital Adjustment Test (MAT) (Locke & Wallace, ) with four additional items (religious matters; aims, goals, and things believed to be important; making major decisions; and household tasks) incorporated from Spanier's (Spanier, ) Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). The MAT and DAS are well‐established measures and have strong psychometric credentials (Haque & Davenport, ). In this study, the modified MAT α = .80.…”

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X. Marital and Emotional Adjustment in Mothers and Infant Sleep Arrangements During the First Six Months

Teti

Crosby

McDaniel

et al. 2015

Monographs Society Res Child

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Although parents' structuring of infant sleep is complexly determined, little attention has been given to parents' marital and personal adjustment in shaping sleep arrangement choices. Linkages were examined between infant sleep arrangements at 1 and 6 months and mothers' marital adjustment, co-parenting quality, and depressive symptoms. The final study sample was composed of 149 families (53% girl infants, 86% European American). Bed sharing mothers had lower co-parenting quality, and, at 6 months, more depressive symptoms than mothers of infants in solitary sleep. One-month co-parenting quality was associated with predictable shifts in sleep arrangements from 1 to 6 months, but 1-month sleep arrangements did not predict changes in personal or co-parenting quality. Findings emphasize the need for greater attention to marital and emotional health in influencing family-level decisions about infant sleep arrangements.

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“…Due to its brevity and availability, therapists and clinicians are increasingly using the LWMAT. The scale has been tested for its psychometric properties with various sample (18,19) . In this study, we used the Bangla version of LWMAT (20) .…”

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Depression of married women: Exploring the role of employment status, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being

Islam

Efat

Yousuf³

et al. 2016

Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci

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This study was carried out to explore the level of depression among married women. Additionally, the role of employment status, academic qualification, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being on depression was examined. Depression, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being of 200 married women were assessed. Results showed 15% of the study participants scored above the cut-off point of depression and are at the risk of depression. Employment and academic status, marital satisfaction and psychological wellbeing (GHQ-28) jointly accounted for 56.2% variability in the depression with psychological well-being (β = 0.515, p < 0.001) and marital satisfaction (β = –0.276, p < 0.001) appeared as the most influential predictors. Lower education and unemployment also associated with the higher level of depression. The model indicated if a married woman with poorer psychological well-being, lower marital satisfaction and lower educational qualification is unemployed, she is more likely to be diagnosed as depressed. Implications and future direction are discussed. Dhaka Univ. J. Biol. Sci. 25(2): 113-121, 2016 (July)

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The Assessment of Marital Adjustment with Muslim Populations: A Reliability Study of the Locke–Wallace Marital Adjustment Test

Cited by 11 publications

References 15 publications

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

Sleep arrangements, parent–infant sleep during the first year, and family functioning.

X. Marital and Emotional Adjustment in Mothers and Infant Sleep Arrangements During the First Six Months

Depression of married women: Exploring the role of employment status, marital satisfaction and psychological well-being

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