Marital Satisfaction and Parent Stress

Given the documented association between paternal alcoholism and negative parenting behaviors, the purpose of this study was to examine longitudinally whether marital satisfaction mediates this relationship. Participants consisted of 197 families (102 without an alcoholic father, 95 with an alcoholic father) who were assessed at three time points: when children were 12, 24, and 36 months old. R...

This research was carried out to predict marital satisfaction based on parental marital satisfaction and healthy family-of-origin. In this study, martial satisfaction is considered as the most important component of marriage. This research had a descriptive, correlational design. The statistical population of the study included all young couples aged 30-40 in Kermanshah whose marriage had laste...

BACKGROUND It has been suggested that couples who conceive with assisted reproductive technologies (ART) invest more in their child than those who conceive spontaneously. This study examined how parental investment in the child (PIC) varied as a function of method-of-conception, gender and other contextual variables, i.e. prenatal depression, social support and satisfaction with the marital rel...

While psychopathology in general is linked to poorer marital and parental satisfaction, there is a paucity of data regarding these interactions in parents with Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The current study addresses this issue among a civilian population. Two hundred trauma-exposed parents, mean age of 37.2, 62% mothers, were assessed using self-report questionnaires, for background v...

OBJECTIVE To better understand the career satisfaction and factors related to retention of women physicians who work reduced hours and are in dual-earner couples in comparison to their full-time counterparts. METHODS Survey of a random sample of female physicians between 25 and 50 years of age working within 25 miles of Boston, whose names were obtained from the Board of Registration in Medic...

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a disorder resembling autism in its problems with social interaction and cognitive flexibility. Today, a number of adults with AS marry and rear children. Yet there has been little research into the quality of their marital and parental relationships. This study explored romantic attachment style, marital satisfaction and parenthood satisfaction in 157 Australian men a...