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Is the U-Curve of Marital Satisfaction an Illusion? A 40-Year Study of Marriage
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The AA. report on a 40-year study of 169 college men and their wives. They examined marital satisfaction prospectively and retrospectively. When examined retrospectively, marital satisfaction followed a weak curvilinear pattern with the lowest point of marriage at approximately 20 years. When studied prospectively, the U-curve disappeared and marital satisfaction remained relatively stable, particularly in the middle and later years. The difference between the spouses came only in their assesment of the difficulty of solving disagreements, which seemed for the wives to become more difficult over time. These patterns of marital satisfaction held true whether studied according to number of years married, age of each partner, or stage of the family life cycle.
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- Authors
- Vaillant, C. O., & Vaillant, G. E.
- Venue
- Journal of Marriage and the Family
- Publisher
- JSTOR
- Published
- 1993-02
- Volume
- 55
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 230
- ISSN
- 0022-2445 (ISSN-L)
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- W1964385691
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- 193
- References
- 1
- FWCI
- 5.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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