Marital Quality and Global Well-Being Among Older Adult Israeli Couples in Enduring Marriages

Cohen, Orna; Geron, Yael; Farchi, Alva

doi:10.1080/01926180802405968

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“…Third, we know of no studies that have explored the combined influences of both partners' marital appraisals on well-being. Older spouses' marital appraisals are correlated only modestly (r < .50 in the present study; see also Bulanda, 2011;Carr & Boerner, 2009;Cohen, Geron, & Farchi, 2009); thus, it is plausible that spouses' appraisals as well as convergences (or divergences) therein may have independent associations with well-being. The protective effects of marital satisfaction on emotional well-being may be amplified when one's spouse also is satisfied with the marriage, whereas the association may be dampened or even reversed when one's partner is dissatisfied.…”

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Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well‐being in Later Life

Carr

Freedman

Cornman³

et al. 2014

J of Marriage and Family

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The authors examined associations between marital quality and both general life satisfaction and experienced (momentary) well-being among older husbands and wives, the relative importance of own versus spouse’s marital appraisals for well-being, and the extent to which the association between own marital appraisals and well-being is moderated by spouse’s appraisals. Data are from the 2009 Disability and Use of Time daily diary supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 722). One’s own marital satisfaction is a sizable and significant correlate of life satisfaction and momentary happiness; associations do not differ significantly by gender. The authors did not find a significant association between spouse’s marital appraisals and own well-being. However, the association between husband’s marital quality and life satisfaction is buoyed when his wife also reports a happy marriage, yet flattened when his wife reports low marital quality. Implications for understanding marital dynamics and well-being in later life are discussed.

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Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well‐being in Later Life

Carr

Freedman

Cornman³

et al. 2014

J of Marriage and Family

289

188

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“…This is especially true among those married over decades (Cohen, Geron, & Farchi, 2009;O'Rourke, 2005). Married people tend live longer and are at reduced risk of both hypertension (Kaplan & Kronick, 2006) and clinical depression (Whiffen, 2006).…”

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Personality trait levels within older couples and between-spouse trait differences as predictors of marital satisfaction

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Claxton

Chou

et al. 2011

Aging & Mental Health

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In this study of 125 older couples married for an average of 34 years, multilevel models were computed to simultaneously examine intra-couple personality trait averages and between-spouse trait similarity as predictors of marital satisfaction. Our findings suggest that higher intra-couple levels of extraversion predict marital satisfaction, both husbands and wives. In addition, between-spouse similarity in openness to experience appears associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction as reported by husbands; concomitantly, between-spouse similarity in agreeableness predicts wives' marital satisfaction. With respect to openness (husbands) and agreeableness (wives), it did not matter which spouse within couples reported higher or lower trait levels. The most notable finding to emerge from this study is that neuroticism is not associated with marital satisfaction, neither husbands nor wives. This result stands in contrast to previously reported findings--the vast majority of prior research conducted with dating and newlywed couples. Conflicting results may reflect the degree to which neuroticism determines divorce within the first years of married life, adaptation to the foibles of one's spouse over time, overreliance on younger samples in marriage and family research, or some combination of these alternate explanations.

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“…For this, focusing on the couples' self-esteem could result in increasing their marital satisfaction an improving the families' efficiency in the end. The past studies indicate that the self-esteem is factor that is effective in the women marital satisfaction rate compared to men (Cohen et al, 2009). …”

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Relationships between Self-Esteem and Marital Satisfaction among Women

Yadalijamaloye¹

2013

PBS

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This study explores relationships between self-esteem and marital satisfaction among women in Najafabad and Fuladshahr in Iran. The case study was 757 women (381 respondents in Najafabad and 376 in Fuladshahr) who were married for at least 3 years. Findings show that there is a significant relation between age of women, marriage duration and marital satisfaction. Also generally the rate of marital satisfaction was higher between Fuladshahr women. Marital satisfaction was found to be positively correlated with self-esteem in both cities, so that higher self-esteem was associated with greater satisfaction. Another finding was that level of marital satisfaction; number of children and duration of the marriage were negatively correlated for women. The result of multiple regression analysis showed that factors including: number of children, marriage duration, the number of children and self-esteem could predict 19.5 % (R 2 =19.5) of dependant variable variations in Najafabad and age of woman, marriage duration, the number of children and self-esteem could explain 0.28 % (R 2 =0.28) of the marital satisfaction among women in Fuladshahr.

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Marital Quality and Global Well-Being Among Older Adult Israeli Couples in Enduring Marriages

Cited by 23 publications

References 33 publications

Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well‐being in Later Life

Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well‐being in Later Life

Personality trait levels within older couples and between-spouse trait differences as predictors of marital satisfaction

Relationships between Self-Esteem and Marital Satisfaction among Women

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