The Marital Problems Questionnaire (MPQ): A Short Screening Instrument for Marital Therapy

Douglass, Frazier M.; Douglass, Robin

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“…To identify the conflict area for discussion, all participants completed the Marital Problems Questionnaire, which is a screening assessment commonly used in marital therapy (42). A research assistant used the results to identify the highest rated conflict area for each couple.…”

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Observed Relationship Behaviors and Sleep in Military Veterans and Their Partners

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Background Emerging research has begun to examine associations between relationship functioning and sleep. However, these studies have largely relied on self-reported evaluations of relationships and/or of sleep, which may be vulnerable to bias. Purpose To examine associations between relationship functioning and sleep in military couples. This is the first research to examine associations between observed relationship behaviors and subjective and polysomnographically-measured sleep in a sample at-risk for both sleep and relationship problems. Methods The sample included 35 military veterans and their spouses/partners. Marital functioning was coded from a videotaped conflict interaction. Analyses focused on behavioral codes of hostility and relationship-enhancing attributions. Sleep was assessed via self-report and in-home polysomnography. Results Greater hostility was associated with poorer sleep efficiency for oneself (b=−0.195, p=.013). In contrast, greater relationship-enhancing attributions were associated with higher percentages of Stage N3 sleep (b=0.239, p=.028). Partners’ hostility was also positively associated with higher percentages of stage N3 sleep (b=0.272, p=.010). Neither hostility nor relationship-enhancing attributions was associated with self-reported sleep quality, percentage of REM sleep, or total sleep time. Conclusions Both partners’ positive and negative behaviors during conflict interactions related to sleep. These findings highlight the role that effective communication and conflict resolution skills may play in shaping not only the marital health of veterans and their spouses, but the physical health of both partners as well. Understanding the links between relationship functioning and sleep may be important targets of intervention in the aftermath of war.

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“…It is sometimes asked in surveys as a general question, measuring global marital happiness (glenn, 1991;Heaton & albrecht, 1991;Suitor, 1991), and other times measured using multiple survey items that are aimed at capturing spouses' happiness with different aspects of their marital relationship (such as the amount of love, affection, and understanding they receive, their sexual relationship, and faithfulness) along with global measures (Johnson, White, edwards, & Booth, 1986). Some researchers use marital happiness and marital satisfaction interchangeably (Douglass & Douglass, 1995), whereas others use marital happiness as one indicator among others of marital satisfaction (Booth, Johnson, White, & edwards, 1984).…”

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“…Marital happiness and marital interaction represent a positive dimension of marital quality whereas marital disagreements, problems, and instability represent a negative dimension of marital quality. although positive and negative dimensions of marital quality are related, they do not measure the same thing and therefore need to be treated as distinct concepts (Booth et al, 1984;Douglass & Douglass, 1995;Heaton & albrecht, 1991). The current research focuses specifically on marital happiness.…”

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Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006

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et al. 2009

Journal of Family Issues

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This article uses data from the 1973-2006 General Social Survey to assess the interactive impact of race and gender on marital happiness over time. Findings indicate independent and significant effects for both variables, with Whites and husbands reporting greater marital happiness than Blacks and wives. Comparing four subgroups (White husbands, White wives, Black husbands, and Black wives), the authors find that White husbands report the highest levels of marital happiness whereas Black wives report the lowest. Assessment of trends from the 1970s to the 2000s reveals a convergence among the groups: Although White husbands consistently report the highest levels of marital happiness, there has been a steady decline in the gap between all four groups. Most notably, Black wives exhibit a significant increase in marital happiness relative to the other groups. Findings are discussed in the context of the changing structure and composition of families in contemporary U.S. society.

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“…What scales do we assert should be used in custody evaluations, in place of the at-best questionable instruments typically employed? The first construct, parental conflict, has been repeatedly and validly assessed by the O'Leary Porter Scale (Porter & O'Leary, 1980), the Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS; Straus, 1979), the Revised Conflict Tactics Scales (CTS2; Straus, Hamby, Boney-McCoy, & Sugarman, 1996), the Divorce Conflict Measure (DCM; Nicholas, Slater, Forehand, & Fauber, 1988), the Marital Problems Questionnaire (MPQ; Douglass & Douglass, 1995), and the Conflicts and Problem-Solving Scales (CPS; Kerig, 1996). The child's view of parental conflict has been assessed with the Children's Perception of Interparental Conflict Scale (CPIC;Crych, Seid, & Fincham, 1992), and the Post-Divorce Parental Conflict Scale (PPCS; Morris & West, 2001), while others have used questionnaires to assess frequency of conflict, both overt and covert, by creating some new items and combining or adapting items from Ahrons (1981) and Crych et al (1992).…”

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Fathers, Divorce, and Child Custody

2013

Handbook of Father Involvement

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The Marital Problems Questionnaire (MPQ): A Short Screening Instrument for Marital Therapy

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Observed Relationship Behaviors and Sleep in Military Veterans and Their Partners

Observed Relationship Behaviors and Sleep in Military Veterans and Their Partners

Trends in Marital Happiness by Gender and Race, 1973 to 2006

Fathers, Divorce, and Child Custody

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