▪ Abstract The investigation of marital conflict has reached a crossroads. Over 25 years of
research on marital conflict behavior yields a relatively clear picture of its topography, but its …

Over 400 married couples participated in a 3-year prospective study of economic pressure
and marital relations. The research (a) empirically evaluated the family stress model of …

The authors examined 4 models of attachment change: a contextual model, a social–
cognitive model, an individual-difference model, and a diathesis-stress model. Models were …

Four parameters of the trajectory of change in marital quality (initial status as well as linear,
quadratic, and cubic patterns of change) were estimated for husbands and wives over the …

This article examined the relationship between internal working models of self and other
(Bowlby, 1969) and expectations for satisfaction in a future relationship, and how that …

This is a longitudinal investigation of self‐esteem change in an adult population. The
analysis addresses two limitations in earlier studies: the use of convenience samples of …

In this chapter, I discuss the influences of both social and clinical relevance that may
undermine the quality of close relationships:(a) personal dysfunctions that debilitate one …

The purpose of this research is to delineate how three different levels of depression—not
depressed, moderately depressed and severely depressed—impact marital beliefs and …

This study was designed to investigate problem-solving behavior and marital cognition as a
function of depression and marital distress. In the study, the presence or absence of a …

This literature review on the transition to marriage synthesizes the available information and
also highlights some of the intrapersonal, interpersonal, familial, and social development …