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AbstractThe proposed double ABCM model of marital satisfaction draws from the double ABCX theory of family behavior framework to incorporate pre‐marital factors associated with getting married that carry‐over into the marriage itself; it also integrates marital demands, circumstances, and perceptions that ultimately contribute to marital satisfaction. Bodies of literature related to marriage intentions, marital beliefs, newlywed adjustment, and marital maintenance are integrated into the constructs of the model. The double ABCM model expands the structure of the original double ABCX framework in several ways, including by explicitly depicting broader contextual factors that influence intra‐relational processes, diagraming the shared and unshared aspects of most constructs, and illustrating a nonlinear passage of time. Limitations and implications are discussed.

As goes the education in a country, particularly higher education, so too goes the success of many factors that affect life there: the economy, level of technology, societal issues, individual and collective prosperity and a country's move toward internationalization. Higher education in the Asian century: The European legacy and the future of transnational education in the ASEAN region explores the history of the member nations of ASEAN. The legacy of educational progress is derived from their colonial experience and foreign ties and the effects that these relationships may have had on each country. Specifically, the book examines how a tool of higher education, Transnational Education (TNE), the movement of programs of study, students and teachers across international borders, has been and is being used in each country involved in attempts to attain governmental, societal, and higher education-related goals.

AbstractThe Islamic reformist movement known as Salafism is generally portrayed as a relentlessly literalist and rigid school of religious thought. This article pursues a more nuanced picture of a historical Salafism that is less a movement with a single, linear origin than a dynamic intellectual milieu continually shaped by local contexts. Using 1930s Aden as a case study, the article examines how a transregional reformist discourse could be vulnerable to local interpretation and begins to unpack the transformation of Salafi activism from a broad, doctrinaire, and, above all, foreign ideology to an integral part of local religious discourse. It situates reform within an evolving Islamic discursive tradition that in part developed as a result of its own theological logic but was equally shaped by local and historically contingent institutions, social practices, and power structures. It thus explores Salafism as a dynamic tradition that could be adapted by local intellectuals to engage the problems facing their own communities.