Personality and Multiple Divorce

McCranie, Edward W.; Kahan, Joel

doi:10.1097/00005053-198603000-00006

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“…In support of McCranie and Kahan's (1986) findings, other research has identified wives with a history of two or more divorces to be more likely than others to have symptoms of anxiety, paranoid ideation, phobias, psychosis, and severe levels of distress than women with one divorce or no history of divorce (Kurdek, 1990). Overall psychological distress was related to lower remarital satisfaction.…”

Section: Serial Marriage Influencesmentioning

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“…They may represent a population with distinct personality traits frequently referred to as having a divorce-prone personality (McCranie & Kahan, 1986). Several studies have attempted to include serial marriage as a variable in studies on remarital quality though none have studied it in exactly the same way.…”

Section: Serial Marriage Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Divorce may become more readily accepted as a valid and valuable option the more it is utilized. McCranie and Kahan (1986) found that multiple remarriers have unique personality characteristics predisposing them to divorce. (However, it also may be that experiencing several divorces influenced those personality traits.)…”

Section: Serial Marriage Influencesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Premarital Predictors of Remarital Quality: Implications for Clinicians

Falke

Larson

2007

Contemp Fam Ther

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This paper presents a review of the research literature from 1980 to present on the premarital predictors of remarital satisfaction and stability (quality). The predictive factors are organized with an ecosystemic theoretical model using three general predictor categories: background and context factors (e.g., stepchildren), individual traits and behaviors (e.g., attachment to an ex-spouse), and couple interactional processes (e.g., couple consensus). Major factors related to lower remarriage quality include the roles of stepchildren, stepfamily complexity, emotional attachment to an ex-spouse, serial marriage, and economic strain. Predictors related to higher remarital quality include couple consensus on important topics, social support from family and friends, and financial stability. Implications for couple therapy before remarriage are discussed. Keywords Remarriage Á Marital quality Á Premarital predictorsDivorce rates continue to be high in the United States as nearly 50% of first marriages end in divorce and 27% of couple households in the US include at least one partner who has been previously married. The divorce rate for remarrieds is even higher-about 60% (Bramlett & Mosher, 2001), especially when remarried couples have stepchildren (Booth & Edwards, 1992). This makes it important for marriage and family therapists to understand the premarital factors that support a successful remarriage. The most recent reviews of remarriage focus more on general stepfamily dynamics rather than on the remarital dyad Stephanie Falke, M.S. is a doctoral student in marital and family therapy at

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Section: Serial Marriage Influencesmentioning

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Section: Serial Marriage Influencesmentioning

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Premarital Predictors of Remarital Quality: Implications for Clinicians

Falke

Larson

2007

Contemp Fam Ther

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“…PD outcomes are predicted by self and interpersonal functioning in adolescents (DeFife, Goldberg, & Westen, ) and adults (Hopwood et al, ). In addition to impacting functioning and risk for psychopathology, research with adults has found that a PD diagnosis and PD traits impact treatment outcomes, treatment process, risk for self‐harm, and the quality of the therapeutic alliance (Hirshfeld et al, ; Johnson et al, ; McCranie & Kahan, ; Seiverwright, Tyrer, & Johnson, ; Skodol et al, ). More research is needed, however, to ascertain if these associations hold within adolescent populations.…”

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Dimensional measure of self and interpersonal functioning: Comparisons with treatment alliance and readiness for inpatient psychotherapy

Haggerty

Stein

Siefert

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Clin Psychology and Psychoth

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The social cognition and object relations scale-global rating method is a clinical rating system assessing 8 domains of self and interpersonal functioning. It can be applied to score numerous forms of narrative data. In this study, we investigate the SCORS-G relationship to measures of alliance and readiness for psychotherapy with an adolescent inpatient sample. Seventy-two psychiatrically hospitalized adolescents were consented and subsequently rated by their individual and group therapist using the SCORS-G. The unit psychiatrist also completed an assessment of patients' readiness for inpatient psychotherapy. The patients completed a self-report of their alliance with the inpatient treatment team as a whole. SCORS-G ratings were positively correlated with assessments of readiness for inpatient psychotherapy and patient-reported alliance. This study further demonstrates the clinical utility of the SCORS-G with adolescents.

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“…In a sample of 431 male physicians, McCranie and Kahan (1986) found that socially non-conforming, impulsive, risk-taking, stimulus-seeking men were more likely to have multiple divorces. In terms of the Big 5 traits, this would lead us to expect that low conscientiousness and high openness to experience are associated with a high probability of divorce.…”

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Personality and Marital Surplus

Lundberg

2010

SSRN Journal

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This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the effect of personality traits on the formation and dissolution of domestic partnerships. Selection into marriage is associated with distinctly different personality profiles for men and women born before 1960, suggesting that gender-specialized contributions to household public goods were an important source of marital surplus for these cohorts. The effects of personality on marriage are more similar for younger men and women; this is consistent with marital returns based on joint consumption. Divorce is associated with low expected marital surplus, low emotional stability for women, and male extroversion.

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Personality and Multiple Divorce

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Premarital Predictors of Remarital Quality: Implications for Clinicians

Premarital Predictors of Remarital Quality: Implications for Clinicians

Dimensional measure of self and interpersonal functioning: Comparisons with treatment alliance and readiness for inpatient psychotherapy

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