Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup Research, Theory, and Practice

This book should be of interest to scholars, researchers, students, and practitioners alike. Scholars, researchers, and students of personal relationship development will recognize in this book the first serious attempt in over 40 years to do a large-scale, longitudinal study of premarital factors t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Holman, Thomas B.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2002, 2002
Edition:1st ed. 2002
Series:Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Premarital Factors and Later Marital Quality and Stability
  • Assumptions and Methods
  • Breaking Up before and after Marriage
  • Family-of-origin Structures and Processes and Adult Children’s Marital Quality
  • Individual Characteristics Influencing Marital Quality
  • Social Contexts Influencing Marital Quality
  • Premarital Couple Interactional Processes and Later Marital Quality
  • Putting it all Together: Four Longitudinal, Multivariate Models of Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality
  • General Principles, Implications, and Future Directions
  • Epilogue and Invitation