What Predicts Divorce? : The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes

by Gottman, John Mordechai

• ISBN13: 9780805814026
• ISBN10: 0805814027
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1993-11-01
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbau

Summary

The Relationship Between Marital Processes and Marital Outcomes: I sincerely want to thank the hundreds of couple who participated in this research. They trusted us with the most intimate details of their lives, and theirs is really the major contributions toward this effort.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(27)
What Makes Some Marriages Marriages Magical and Some Miserable? Raising the Questions	28	(10)
Terman's Question: What Makes for Marital Happiness? The View From Observational Methods	38	(30)
Longitudinal Change in Marital Happiness: Observing Physiology as Well as Marital Interaction	68	(9)
Marital Processes That Predict Dissolution	77	(41)
In What Sense are Regulated Couples Regulated?	118	(10)
Is Conflict Avoidance Dysfunctional?	128	(10)
Conflict Avoidance and the Behavior of the Listener: Toward A Typology of Marriage	138	(20)
There are Two Types of Conflict Engagers	158	(23)
A Balance Theory of Marriage	181	(31)
There are Two Types of Nonregulated Couples	212	(25)
Male Withdrawal From Marital Conflict	237	(47)
Replication and Extension	284	(23)
Physiology During Marital Interaction	307	(23)
Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Marital Stability	330	(52)
Eight-Year Longitudinal Follow-Up Study	382	(27)
Recommendations for a Stable Marriage	409	(32)
Epilogue	441	(2)
Appendix: The Observational Coding Systems	443	(32)
References	475	(32)
Author Index	507	(7)
Subject Index	514