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| some see marriage as "in decline", others see it as dymanmic, changing, and resilent |
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| older age in first marriages, people never marrying, higher cohabitation, etc. |
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| Gibsons 3 barriars of marriage |
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| financial concerns, relationship quality, fear of and opposition to divorce |
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| deinstitutionalization of marriage |
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| weakeneing of social norms that define peoples behaviors in a marriage |
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| spouses expected to supply compainionship, friendship, love, ect. |
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| personal fulfillment and personal growth and expect spouse will facilitate such growth |
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| maritial decline perspective |
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| belief marriage is endangered |
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| mariatal resilience perspective |
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| believe marriage is changing |
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| denied federal recognition to same sex couples |
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| marry within same large group |
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| marrying outside certian groups |
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| positive assortative mating |
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| greater risk for divorce, more common with highly educated |
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| greater risk of maritial unhappiness, children more likely to engage in substance abuse |
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| gender imbalance (ratio of available men and women) |
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| tendency for woman to marry men of higher status |
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| tendency to select partner from geographically limited locale |
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| complementary needs theory |
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| people select spouses whose needs differ from their own |
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| gratification follows from finding one who feels/thinks same |
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| seek partners similiar to opposite sex parent |
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| stimulus-value-role theory |
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1. stimulus brings people together
2. value refers to the compatibilty of basic values
3. role has to do with each persons expectations of how the other should fulfill his/her roles |
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| rocky and turbulent (maritial outcomes) |
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| periods of upset and anger, distress and jelousy over outhers |
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| sweet and dramatic (maritial outcomes) |
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| people with good hearts, helpful, sensitive, gentle, warm, and understanding |
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| passionate (maritial outcomes) |
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| having sex early and marry soon |
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| factors predicting maritial sucess |
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-background
-contextual
-individual traits
-couple characteristics |
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-emotional
-psychic
-community
-legal
-economic
-coparental
-domestic |
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| duration of marriage effect |
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| accumilation over time of various factors that might cause marital disenchantment |
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| process of role adjustment |
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-personal
-moral
-structural |
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