… , and the whole stepfamily. We extend prior work on stepparents’ affinity seeking by … -stepchild
conflicts, couple relationship quality, and stepfamily cohesion. Stepfathers and mothers …

… stepfamily functioning than did marital quality. Actor effects were more often statistically
associated with stepfamily … dimensions of stepfamily functioning: stepfamily cohesion, stepfamily …

… Moreover, cohesion is conceptualized as something that can … at-risk stepfamilies as indicated
by profiles of quality among dyadic … gender, parental marital status, and stepfamily duration. …

… and the family's desire to establish cohesion might be particularly important and nuanced in
… In terms of parental marital status, 65% of the stepcouples were married versus cohabiting. …

… 28 stepfamilies were compared with 28 first-marriage families on family functioning and the
quality … Quality of the mother-adolescent relationship and marital satisfaction did not differ by …

… is the quality of the marital relationship, often … marital satisfaction is indeed higher in
stepfamilies than in first-marriage families. However, it has been shown that the difference in marital …

… from simple stepfamilies registered higher marital quality than persons from complex
stepfamilies. … of some minimal level of marital cohesion. The prediction that persons in complex …

… reports of marital quality have produced significant actor effects (and some significant
partner effects) with respect to reports of stepfamily cohesion, stepfamily expressiveness, and …

… but has questions that appear to tap a cohesive aspect of marital quality with six items
that ask participants to rate the extent to which they agree with broad statements about their …

… the patterns of stepfamily relationship quality and youth adjustment. Longitudinal analysis
increases our confidence that patterns of stepfamily relationship quality are indeed robust …