Older Persons' Perceptions of Their Marriages

Stinnett, Nick; Carter, Linda Mittelstet; Montgomery, James E.

doi:10.2307/350318

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“…Couples at mid‐life and beyond: Overwhelmingly, the existing observational research on marriage has studied relatively young couples. The data that exist about older marriages have been limited to self‐report data, derived primarily from questionnaires and interviews (Erikson, Erikson, & Kivnick, 1989; Guilford & Bengtson, 1979; Stinnett, Carter, & Montgomery, 1972). Although self‐report data can be useful, they are well‐known to have severe limits, especially when people are reporting very personal material.…”

Section: The Study Of Couples Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Gottman¹,

Notarius²

2002

Family Process

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In this article we review the advances made in the 20th century in studying marriages. Progress moved from a self-report, personality-based approach to the study of interaction in the 1950s, following the advent of general systems theory. This shift led, beginning in the 1970s, to the rapid development of marital research using a multimethod approach. The development of more sophisticated observational measures in the 1970s followed theorizing about family process that was begun in the decade of the 1950s. New techniques for observation, particularly the study of affect and the merging of synchronized data streams using observational and self-report perceptual data, and the use of sequential and time-series analyses produced new understandings of process and power. Research in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s witnessed the realization of many secular changes in the American family, including the changing role of women, social science's discovery of violence and incest in the family, the beginning of the study of cultural variation in marriages, the expansion of the measurement of marital outcomes to include longevity, health, and physiology (including the immune system), and the study of comorbidities that accompany marital distress. A research agenda for the 21st century is then described.

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Section: The Study Of Couples Over Timementioning

confidence: 99%

Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Gottman¹,

Notarius²

2002

Family Process

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“…However, as Agostini (1982) concludes, the woman adjusts, having developed this skill over a lifetime. Stinnett et al (1972) cite evidence from other studies which indicates a decline in marital satisfaction during the post-retirement years, particularly among lower socioeconomic class couples and among those couples who had a history of few shared activities. Mancuso (1980) adds to this while narrowing the lens on the Italo-American couple.…”

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Marital Problems of the "Old" Elderly as They Present to a Mental Health Clinic

Csw

1989

Journal of Gerontological Social Work

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“…Socially healthy persons who are happily married are also physically healthier and more likely to assess their health in positive terms than those experiencing lower levels of social health (Renne, 1974). These relationships also exist among Chicano couples (Raymond et al, 1980), older couples (Mancini, 1979;Stinnett et al, 1972), childless couples (Glick, 1976), happily married couples (in comparison to unhappily married, Renne, 1971), and among couples enjoying stable marriages (in comparison to those seeking marital counseling, Rogers et al, 1970).…”

Section: Marital Interaction and Healthmentioning

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Marital interaction and spousal health and well-being

Schmoldt¹

2000

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An attempt is made to determine whether marital interaction is related to the health and well-being of husbands Although the amount of variance explained is small, the findings provide some support for the hypothesis that better health is associated with higher levels of marital interaction, particularly cohesion. There is some suggestion that marital interaction has a greater influence on the health of husbands than wives, but the difference is slight.Measures of health and well-being which tend to be more emotion-sensitive (self-esteem, mental health status, trauma, and emotion-related disease) are those most likely to be influenced by the marital relationship. The effect of marital interaction on health and wel±-being is also independent of the health status one brings to a marriage.

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Older Persons' Perceptions of Their Marriages

Cited by 49 publications

References 8 publications

Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Marital Problems of the "Old" Elderly as They Present to a Mental Health Clinic

Marital interaction and spousal health and well-being

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