Current family therapy theories and practices of domestic violence place an important
emphasis on gender. Employing the notion of intersectionality, this article demonstrates how …

Two generations of outcome research demonstrate the potential efficacy of marital therapy in
the treatment of depression. After reviewing treatment outcome studies on marital therapy for …

The purpose of the present meta‐analysis was to empirically test the widely held assumption
that women experience lower marital satisfaction than men. A total of 226 independent …

This study examines the association between marital quality and personal well‐being using
meta‐analytic techniques. Effects from 93 studies were analyzed. The average weighted …

This study examined whether humiliating marital events (HMEs; husbands' infidelity, threats
of marital dissolution) precipitated Major Depressive Episodes (MDEs) when controlling for …

This article is Part 2 of a review of factors hindering battered women's chances of leaving
violent relationships. Part 1 covered major external inhibiting factors (eg, women's economic …

The present study was designed to evaluate the context of marital violence through
husbands' and wives' accounts of the worst violent episode in the year prior to assessment …

This study examined the theoretically expected contributions of early emotional abuse, adult
attachment, and depression to several aspects of romantic relationship functioning. College …

Ninety two women presenting for treatment for marital problems and who were physically
victimized by their spouses (eg, pushing, shoving, punching) within the past year …

The psychometric properties of subscores from Collins and Read's (1990) Adult Attachment
Scale (AAS, Ns= 61 gay, 42 lesbian, and 155 heterosexual couples) and Griffin and …