What Predicts Divorce?: The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes
In: Psychology Press and Routledge Classic Editions Series
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 What Makes Some Marriages Magical and Some Miserable? Raising the Questions -- 3 Terman's Question: What Makes for Marital Happiness? The View From Observational Methods -- 4 Longitudinal Change in Marital Happiness: Observing Physiology as Well as Marital Interaction -- 5 Marital Processes That Predict Dissolution -- 6 In What Sense Are Regulated Couples Regulated? -- 7 Is Conflict Avoidance Dysfunctional? -- 8 Conflict Avoidance and the Behavior of the Listener: Toward a Typology of Marriage -- 9 There Are Two Types of Conflict Engagers -- 10 A Balance Theory of Marriage -- 11 There Are Two Types of Nonregulated Couples -- 12 Male Withdrawal From Marital Conflict -- 13 Replication and Extension -- 14 Physiology During Marital Interaction -- 15 Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Marital Stability -- 16 Eight-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up Study -- 17 Recommendations for a Stable Marriage -- 18 Epilogue -- Appendix: The Observational Coding Systems -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index.