results mean age of the participants was about 35 years, and mean duration of marriage was 14 years. drug dependence of the husband (p = 0.010) and lower monthly income of the family (p = 0.007) predicted the higher level of anxiety among the participants, while older age (p = 0.031), shorter marital duration (p = 0.016), and lower educational level (p = 0.045) in addition to spousal drug depen...

After a few decades of large-scale transnational marriages and migration Thai women to countries in the Global North, phenomenon has matured Western-Thai married couples have aged, particularly men who tend be older than their wives. This article examines understudied topic Western man – woman old age, focusing on those decide spend late life Thailand. Ageing Thailand as non-citizens, many husb...

This study examined the relationship between relational uncertainty and perceptions of division of household labor (DHL) in cohabiting and married couples. Specifically, research questions explored perceived fairness in DHL and relational uncertainty, perceptual convergence of contributions, convergence of perceptions and relational uncertainty, and convergence of perceptions and relationship s...

Using evidence from the Health and Retirement Study (H.R.S.), this paper assesses how husbands’ and wives’ labor supply is affected when their partner is in poor health. I apply methods for dealing with the endogeneity and mismeasurement of dichotomous reported health status, which can only be used with data such as are present in the H.R.S. Contrary to results from the limited work which has b...

As shown in 702 wives with 9-12 years of education and 612 husbands similarly educated, the summed skinfolds of one spouse are influenced by the educational level of the other spouse, considerably so for the husbands. Women with 9-12 years of education married to men of lower educational attainment are higher in the sum of four skinfolds while women of similar years of schooling married to men ...

People with ASD have deficits in their social skills and may therefore experience lower relationship satisfaction. This study investigated possible mechanisms to explain whether and how autistic traits, measured with the AQ, influence relationship satisfaction in a non-clinical sample of 195 married couples. More autistic traits were associated with lower relationship satisfaction for husbands ...

This study tested dyadic processes of relational turbulence theory (RTT) in heterosexual marriages. We propositions 1, 2, and 5 RTT, which propose that uncertainty about the marriage biases cognitive appraisals, interference from a partner heightens negative emotions, both culminate for spouses. Guided by these propositions, husbands' wives' (N = 510; 255 marital dyads) emotional were estimated...

Using the interpersonal perspective, we examined social correlates of dispositional optimism. In Study 1, optimism and pessimism were associated with warm-dominant and hostile-submissive interpersonal styles, respectively, across four samples, and had expected associations with social support and interpersonal stressors. In 300 married couples, Study 2 replicated these findings regarding interp...