Summary: Survey and interview studies have identified the existence of a number of systems of financial organization in marriage, but their origins remain a mystery. One possibility is that people develop normative beliefs that are carried forward into ...
This article presents a new preventive approach (Couples Coping Enhancement Training: CCET) aimed at expanding upon the scope of current prevention programs by focussing on stress issues and individual and dyadic coping skills. The cognitive behavioral ...
Abstract: Two extensions of the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (e.g., Kenny, 1996) incorporating moderators and mediators are presented. Both models, called the Actor-Partner Moderator Model and the Actor-Partner Mediator Model, allow the analysis of ...
This article focuses upon a new preventive approach designed to improve personal stress management skills. The Coping Enhancement Training (CET) is derived from the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) and encompasses both an individual and a dyadic ...
Abstract. This study examined whether one spouse’s mealtime behaviors were associated with their own and their partner’s depressive symptoms among older, married couples. We examined gender differences in these associations and tested marital ...
Abstract.Background: Reality therapy’s WDEP helps people to become aware of their wants and to engage in directing, evaluating, and planning to recognize the challenges and find solutions to them. This study examined the effect of reality therapy ...
Psychological risk factors for divorce. An overviewAbstract. This article reviews current findings on psychological predictors for a negative marital development and divorce. Theories on divorce are not resumed, as this article focuses exclusively on ...
The influence of stress, and individual and dyadic coping on the stability of partnerships: A 4-year longitudinal studyAbstract. This study focuses on the relationship between stress, individual and dyadic coping, and relationship stability versus ...
The enhancement of individual coping skills: The effectiveness of the Couples Coping Enhancement Training (CCET) within 1 yearAbstract.This article focuses upon a new preventive approach designed to improve the personal stress management skills. The ...
Individual and dyadic coping resources in depressivesAbstract.Background: A number of studies have shown that depressed patients experience more often objective as well as subjective stress and have poorer coping competencies than non-clinical controls. ...
Abstract. This brief article aims to summarize the conceptual and clinical work done within the concept of dyadic coping by Bodenmann and colleagues at the Institute for Family Research and Counseling of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). Apart ...
What effects does couples therapy have on sexuality and sexual satisfaction?Abstract.Background: Most studies evaluating the efficacy of couples therapy mainly consider changes in global relationship satisfaction. However, this research does not tell us ...
Emotional and cardiovascular reactions of couples during a couple-therapeutic intervention: a pilot studyAbstract.Background: The efficacy of marital therapy and distress prevention training for couples is regarded as being well documented. However, ...
Coping in intercultural couplesAbstract.Background: Although the number of marriages with partner from different countries is continuously increasing, knowledge about how binational relationships work is still sparse. Objective: The goal of this study ...
Canada's rate of suicide varies from province to province. The classical theory of suicide, which attempts to explain the social suicide rate, stems from Durkheim, who argued that low levels of social integration and regulation are associated with high ...
Summary: A new set of data concerning the pattern of suicide in India between 1991-1997 are presented. Suicide rates rose over this period despite a small decline in the Indian suicide rate in 1995 and 1996. It was found that between 1995 and 1997 there ...
The purpose of the present study was to analyze marital functioning of satisfied couples and dissatisfied couples by comparing satisfied couples (85 couples), dissatisfied couples (55 couples), and dissatisfied couples in therapy (86 couples). The sample ...
Theorists have long maintained that people react to major life events but then eventually return to a setpoint of subjective well-being. Yet prior research is inconclusive regarding the extent of interindividual variability. Recent theoretical models ...
Although the name-letter task is one of the most frequently used measures of implicit self-esteem, no research has examined whether the name-letter effect emerges for new last name initials and abandoned birth name initials in the context of marriage. ...