Commitment — An Overlooked Variable in Marital Adjustment?

The Relationship of ‘Exchange‐orientation’ and ‘Commitment’ Scales to Marriage Adjustment*

“…From the roles ascribed to E and C variables, it could be deduced 111 We have since learned that at about the time our research plans were being formulated, unknown to us, Dean and Spanier (1974) had undertaken a study with young mamed college students correlating marriage adjustment with a Bogardus type scale of six statements relating to what lengths an individual would go to make his marriage succeed. The most extreme statement, for example, was "I want desparately for my marriage to succeed and would go to almost any length to see that it does".…”

Alienation and Emotional Maturity

“…Dean (1968) found alienation negatively related to marital adjustment, while Dean (1966), Dean and Lucas (1979) and Cole et aL (1980) all found a significant, positive relationship between emotional maturity and marital adjustment. If we accept Rosner's model (1982) that alienation and commitment are polar types, then the research by Dean and Spanier (1974), where a positive correlation was found between commitment and marital adjustment, would add further evidence of an inverse relationship between alienation and emotional immaturity. Thus, there is strong evidence that alienation is negatively related to coping with one's problems, while emotional maturity is positively related.…”

Evli̇li̇ği̇n Ni̇teli̇ği̇ Üzeri̇ne Geli̇şti̇ri̇len Kavramlarin Ortaya Çikardiği Anlam Karmaşasi Üzeri̇ne Bi̇r Değerlendi̇rme

“…Spanier, 1976, s. 18). Bu ölçekler evlilik uyumu (marital adjustment) (Locke & Wallace, 1959;Spanier, 1976), evlilik doyumu (marital satisfaction) (Snyder, 1979;Olson, Fournier & Druckman, 1998;Schumm vd., 1986), evlilik kalitesi (marital quality) (Norton, 1983;Fincham & Linfield, 1997), evlilik başarısı (marital success) (Chi & Houseknecht, 1985 & Olson, 1986;Booth & Johnson, 1988), evlilik mutluluğu 1 (marital happiness) (Hicks & Platt, 1970;Howard & Daves, 1976;Thornton, 1977;Kunz & Albrecht, 1977;Albrecht, 1979), evlilik istikrarı (marital stability) (Hicks & Platt, 1970;Nye, White & Frideres, 1973;Lenthall, 1977), evlilik çatışması (marital conflict) (Gottman, Markman & Notarius, 1977;Braiker & Kelley, 1979), evlilik bağlanımı (marital commitment) (Dean & Spanier, 1974;Adams & Jones, 1997), evlilik bağlanması (marital attachment) 2 (Dickstein vd., 2001), evlilik etkileşimi (marital interaction) (Gottman & Krokoff, 1989;Bradbury, Fincham & Beach, 2000, s. 966), evlilik iletişimi (marital communication) (Noller & Fitzpatrick, 1990), evlilik uyuşması (marital cohesion-marital cohesiveness) (Pittman, Price-Bonham & McKenry, 1983), evlilik bütünleşmesi (marital integration) (Farber, 1957), evlilik uzlaşması (marital consensus) (Spanier, 1976), evlilik bağımlılığı (marital dependency) (Kalmuss & Straus, 1982) gibi kavramları beraberinde getirmiş (Bahr, Chappell & Leigh, 1983;Sabatelli, 1988;Dush, Taylor & Kroeger, 2008;...…”