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Individual and Contextual Correlates of Marital Change across the Transition to Parenthood.
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This paper explored multiple prenatal antecedents and postnatal correlates of change in marital adjustment and satisfaction in men and women across the transition to parenthood, and 102 couples from diverse sociocultural backgrounds were studied longitudinally from pregnancy to the 9th postpartum month.Abstract:
To explore multiple prenatal antecedents and postnatal correlates of change in marital adjustment and satisfaction in men and women across the transition to parenthood, 102 couples from diverse sociocultural backgrounds were studied longitudinally from pregnancy to the 9th postpartum month. Guided by an ecological model, the pre- and postnatal assessments included questionnaires of marital adjustment, personality traits, attitudes toward parenthood, work role centrality, social support, as well as observations and ratings of infant behaviors, maternal and paternal behaviors, and marital communicationread more
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Subjective well-being and adaptation to life events: a meta-analysis.
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Employee Retirement: A Review and Recommendations for Future Investigation
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Coparenting and Triadic Interactions during Infancy: The Roles of Marital Distress and Child Gender.
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Changes in relationship satisfaction across the transition to parenthood: a meta-analysis.
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Families With Young Children: A Review of Research in the 1990s
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