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- Title
Commitment to One's Spouse as a Predictor of Marital Quality among Older Couples.
- Authors
Clements, Richard; Swensen, Clifford H.
- Abstract
The present study examined the relationships between several independent variables (ego development, commitment to the spouse, length of marriage, church attendance, and sex of subject) and three marital quality variables (marriage problems, expression of love, and dyadic adjustment) in a community sample of 72 married couples age 50 and up. Commitment to the spouse was the strongest and most consistent predictor of marital quality; commitment was negatively related to marriage problems and positively related to expression of love and dyadic adjustment. The other independent variables were generally unrelated to marital quality.
- Subjects
MARRIAGE &; psychology; MARRIED people &; psychology; COMMITMENT (Psychology); PSYCHOLOGY of Spouses
- Publication
Current Psychology, 2000, Vol 19, Issue 2, p110
- ISSN
1046-1310
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s12144-000-1007-7