Health psychology

TW Smith - Handbook of psychology, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter reviews methodological issues in health psychology. The field addresses three
major topics—health behavior and risk reduction (eg, smoking cessation), stress and health …

Prospective effects of marital satisfaction on depressive symptoms in established marriages: A dyadic model

SRH Beach, J Katz, S Kim… - Journal of social and …, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
Much evidence suggests that marital discord is related to depressive symptoms in married
couples. In the present research, potential sex-related differences in the prospective effect of …

Depressive symptoms and marital satisfaction: within-subject associations and the moderating effects of gender and neuroticism.

J Davila, BR Karney, TW Hall… - Journal of Family …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Given the emphasis on within-subject associations between depression and marital quality
in recent theory and practice, this study was undertaken with three goals: to examine within …

Adult attachment, the transition to parenthood, and depressive symptoms.

JA Simpson, WS Rholes, L Campbell… - Journal of personality …, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Testing a model suggested by J. Bowlby (1988), this study investigated how a personal
vulnerability (attachment ambivalence) interacts with perceptions of deficient spousal …

Communication in marriage

FD Fincham - The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication, 2003 - taylorfrancis.com
The most common reason for which people seek professional help is relationship problems
(Veroff, Kulka, & Douvan, 1981), and poor communication is the relationship problem most …

Forgiveness and marriage: Preliminary support for a measure based on a model of recovery from a marital betrayal

KC Gordon - American Journal of Family Therapy, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
Forgiveness is an issue that recently has received increasing attention in the psychological
literature, yet little empirical research has been conducted on this topic. This article presents …

Gender moderates the relationship between testosterone and marital interaction.

CL Cohan, A Booth, DA Granger - Journal of Family Psychology, 2003 - psycnet.apa.org
Higher testosterone levels are related to assertiveness and dominance. Given the relevance
of those behavioral correlates to spouses' daily transactions, links between testosterone …

Attachment processes in couple therapy

J Davila - Attachment processes in couple and family therapy, 2003 - books.google.com
As has been noted in numerous places in this volume, attachment theory has become a
prominent theory for understanding functioning in adult romantic relationships. Since the …

Affective disorders

S Beach - Journal of Marital and family Therapy, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Unipolar depressive disorders are especially common among persons presenting with
marital and family problems, rendering their impact on the treatment of marital and family …

[PDF][PDF] Helping unwed parents build strong and healthy marriages: A conceptual framework for interventions

MR Dion, B Devaney, S McConnell… - … Policy Research, Inc, 2003 - mathematica.org
INTRODUCTION he Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of
1996 (PRWORA) is well known for seeking to reduce welfare dependency by requiring …