Marriage

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "His" and "Hers": Meeting the Economic Bar to Marriage. 
  • A cross-sectional study of anxiety and marital quality among women with breast cancer at a university clinic in western Saudi Arabia. 
  • A dyadic approach to health, cognition, and quality of life in aging adults. 
  • A study of the effect of perchloroethylene exposure on the reproductive outcomes of wives of dry-cleaning workers. 
  • Age and impaired subjective support. Predictors of depressive symptoms at one-year follow-up. 
  • Age as a moderator of the determinants of life satisfaction. 
  • Age of marriage and length of the first birth interval in a traditional Indian society: life table and hazards model analysis. 
  • Alcohol abuse and dependence in the rural South. 
  • Alcohol consumption and blood pressure in black adults: the Pitt County Study. 
  • Ambulatory blood pressure and marital distress in employed women. 
  • Anorexia nervosa and autism spectrum disorders: guided investigation of social cognitive endophenotypes. 
  • Are stressful life events risk factors for herpes zoster? 
  • Arsenic: homicidal intoxication. 
  • Associations among disaster exposure, intimate relationship adjustment, and PTSD symptoms: can disaster exposure enhance a relationship? 
  • Bargaining power within couples and use of prenatal and delivery care in Indonesia. 
  • Benzodiazepine anti-anxiety agents: prevalence and correlates of use in a southern community. 
  • Big two personality and big three mate preferences: similarity attracts, but country-level mate preferences crucially matter. 
  • Birth planning propaganda, incentives and peer pressure. 
  • Blood pressure reactivity and marital distress in employed women. 
  • Body mass trajectories through adulthood: results from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 Cohort (1981-2006). 
  • Caregiver-recipient closeness and symptom progression in Alzheimer disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study. 
  • Changes in the divorce rate and age distribution in China since the 1980s. 
  • Childhood education: a review of effects on the woman and her family. 
  • Childhood sexual trauma and subsequent parenting beliefs and behaviors. 
  • Chronic stressors and maternal depression: implications for prevention. 
  • Communication patterns in patients with erectile dysfunction and their partners. 
  • Concordance in the perception of couples recovering from primary surgical treatment of prostate cancer. 
  • Continuities and consequences of interactional styles across the life course. 
  • Continuity and change: assortative marriage and the consistency of personality in adulthood. 
  • Couples and breast cancer: women's mood and partners' marital satisfaction predicting support perception. 
  • Culture in psychiatric epidemiology: using ethnography and multiple mediator models to assess the relationship of caste with depression and anxiety in Nepal. 
  • Demographic and health characteristics of elderly smokers: results from established populations for epidemiologic studies of the elderly. 
  • Depression in black and white women. The role of marriage and socioeconomic status. 
  • Depression in elderly hospitalized patients with medical illness. 
  • Determinants of Intimate Partner Violence Among HIV-Positive and HIV-Negative Women in India. 
  • Discrepancies between explicit and implicit self-esteem: implications for mate retention strategies and perceived infidelity. 
  • Do testosterone declines during the transition to marriage and fatherhood relate to men's sexual behavior? Evidence from the Philippines. 
  • Does a helping hand mean a heavy heart? Helping behavior and well-being among spouse caregivers. 
  • Does marital agony precede marital ecstasy? A comment on Gottman and Krokoff's "Marital interaction and satisfaction: a longitudinal view". 
  • Early childhood family structure and mother-child interactions: variation by race and ethnicity. 
  • Early exposure to parents' relationship instability: implications for sexual behavior and depression in adolescence. 
  • Early parental death and remarriage of widowed parents as risk factors for Alzheimer disease: the Cache County study. 
  • Effects of changing demographic factors upon women's family status in China: a model of a family status life table and its application. 
  • Effects of the status of women on the first-birth interval in Indian urban society. 
  • Epidemiology of depression for clinicians. 
  • Estimating the probability and level of ambulatory mental health services use. 
  • Factors associated with quality of life among married women in rural China: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Factors relating to the use of mental health services in a neighborhood health center. 
  • Fatherhood, pairbonding and testosterone in the Philippines. 
  • Fertility and patterns of labor force participation among married women. 
  • Fertility status and symptoms in childbearing couples. 
  • Forced Marriage and Birth Outcomes. 
  • Gender differences in the psychosocial experience of parents of children with cancer: a review of the literature. 
  • Gender differences in time spent on parenting and domestic responsibilities by high-achieving young physician-researchers. 
  • Growing up with a chronic illness: social success, educational/vocational distress. 
  • Hostility in marital dyads: associations with depressive symptoms. 
  • How Bachelorhood and Migration Increase the HIV Transmission Risk Through Commercial Sex in China? 
  • How an earnings supplement can affect union formation among low-income single mothers. 
  • Impact of late-life depression on the social network. 
  • Intercommunity variations in the association between social ties and mortality in the elderly. A comparative analysis of three communities. 
  • Intergenerational continuity and stability in early family formation. 
  • Is There a Relationship Between the Concentration of Same-Sex Couples and Tobacco Retailer Density? 
  • It's not just who you're with, it's who you are: personality and relationship experiences across multiple relationships. 
  • Knowledge, beliefs, and prior screening behavior among blacks and whites reporting for prostate cancer screening. 
  • Labor-force participation of older married women. 
  • Magic moment? Maternal marriage for children born out of wedlock. 
  • Marital assortment and phenotypic convergence: longitudinal evidence. 
  • Marital status, marital satisfaction, and body image dissatisfaction 
  • Marriage and fertility in China: 1950-1989. 
  • Married with children: predictors of mental and physical health in middle-aged women. 
  • Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated. 
  • Migration in the urban-rural hierarchy of China: insights from the microdata of the 1987 National Survey. 
  • Modeling Trajectories of Adolescent-Perceived Family Conflict: Effects of Marital Dissatisfaction and Parental Alcoholism. 
  • Nonrecursive models of labor force participation, fertility behavior and sex role attitudes. 
  • Pain and functioning of rheumatoid arthritis patients based on marital status: is a distressed marriage preferable to no marriage? 
  • Past personal history of dysphoria, social support, and psychological distress following conjugal bereavement. 
  • Patients with cancer and their spouse caregivers. Perceptions of the illness experience. 
  • Post-partum mood change in Jamaican women: a description and discussion on its significance. 
  • Predictors of Secondary Role Strains Among Spousal Caregivers of Older Adults With Functional Disability. 
  • Predictors of function among the old-old: a 10-year follow-up. 
  • Problems in families of male Vietnam veterans with posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Prognosis for psychophysiologic disorders in the naval service. 
  • Psychiatric disorders. A rural/urban comparison. 
  • Psychosocial issues confronting young women with breast cancer. 
  • Psychotropic drug use among caregivers of patients with dementia. 
  • Recovery after allogeneic marrow transplantation: prospective study of predictors of long-term physical and psychosocial functioning. 
  • Reexamining the link of early childbearing to marriage and to subsequent fertility. 
  • Relationship classification using grade of membership analysis: a typology of sibling relationships in later life. 
  • Risk and Resiliency in the Relationship Between Widowhood and Depressive Symptoms Among Older Mexican Americans. 
  • Sex as contract: abortion and expanded choice. 
  • Sexuality in middle and late life. The effects of age, cohort, and gender. 
  • Shared experiences and the similarity of personalities: a longitudinal study of married couples. 
  • Social service interventions for caregivers of patients with dementia: impact on health care utilization and expenditures. 
  • Social support and the outcome of major depression. 
  • Sociodemographic and health correlates of sleep quality and duration among very old Chinese. 
  • Somatization disorder in a community population. 
  • Spiritual needs of couples facing pregnancy termination because of fetal anomalies. 
  • Spousal-residence separation among Chinese young couples. 
  • Spouse criticism and hostility during marital interaction: effects on pain intensity and behaviors among individuals with chronic low back pain. 
  • Subjective adaptation to loss of the work role: a longitudinal study. 
  • System justification and the defense of committed relationship ideology. 
  • The Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's Disease (CERAD). Part VI. Family history assessment: a multicenter study of first-degree relatives of Alzheimer's disease probands and nondemented spouse controls. 
  • The Edgecombe County High Blood Pressure Control Program: I. Correlates of uncontrolled hypertension at baseline. 
  • The Survival of Spouses Marrying Into Longevity-Enriched Families. 
  • The association of age and depression among the elderly: an epidemiologic exploration. 
  • The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public. 
  • The course of psychological distress following threatened and actual conjugal bereavement. 
  • The dilemmas of parents of adolescents and young adults with congenital heart disease. 
  • The effect of couples training and partner co-operativeness in the behavioral treatment of obesity. 
  • The length-of-stay pattern of nursing home admissions. 
  • The nature and scope of stressful spousal caregiving relationships. 
  • The psychological advantage of unfalsifiability: the appeal of untestable religious and political ideologies. 
  • The quality of retrospective data on cohabitation. 
  • The role of testosterone in coordinating male life history strategies: The moderating effects of the androgen receptor CAG repeat polymorphism. 
  • Twenty years of follow-up among survivors of childhood and young adult acute myeloid leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Twenty-five-year follow-up among survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a report from the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study. 
  • Understanding health behavior change among couples: an interdependence and communal coping approach. 
  • Unintended pregnancy and induced abortion among unmarried women in China: a systematic review. 
  • Values that Fathers Communicate to Sons about Sex, Sexuality, Relationships, and Marriage. 
  • WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND FAMILY PLANNING: A REVIEW OF THE LITERATURE. 
  • Why Danes are smug: comparative study of life satisfaction in the European Union. 
  • Women in very low quality marriages gain life satisfaction following divorce. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Gassman-Pines, Anna, WLF Bass Connections Associate Professor, Duke Science & Society
  • Gibson-Davis, Christina M., Professor in the Sanford School of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public Policy
  • Gold, Deborah T., Professor Emeritus in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Psychiatry, Child & Family Mental Health & Developmental Neuroscience