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All marriages are not maintained equally: Marital type, marital quality, and the use of maintenance behaviors
Author(s) -
WEIGEL DANIEL J.,
BALLARDREISCH DEBORAH S.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
personal relationships
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.81
H-Index - 83
eISSN - 1475-6811
pISSN - 1350-4126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-6811.1999.tb00193.x
Subject(s) - psychology , marital relationship , quality (philosophy) , perception , ideology , marital status , social psychology , developmental psychology , demography , sociology , population , philosophy , epistemology , neuroscience , politics , political science , law
Although a growing amount of research has shown that married couples enact behaviors that maintain or preserve the relationship, little attention has examined how maintenance strategies are used in different types of marriages. This study investigated differences in the use of maintenance behaviors and in perceptions of marital quality across various marital types and explored the relationship between maintenance behaviors, marital types and key indicators of marital quality. Data collected from 141 married couples indicated that couples differed in the use of maintenance behaviors among various marital types. Further, the relationship between maintenance behaviors and perceptions of the key indicators of marital quality varied depending upon couples’ideological frameworks. The findings allow for a better picture of the use of maintenance behaviors in different types of marriages.