Premarital counseling and marital satisfaction among civilian wives of military service members

Wives' marital satisfaction was evaluated as a function of a premarital counseling typology in an analysis of data Pom several thousand military couples surveyed i n 1992. Among couples who jointly reported participation in fwemarital counseling, results indicated that both having premarital co...

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Published inJournal of sex & marital therapy Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 21 - 28
Main Authors Schumm, Walter R., Resnick, Gary, Silliman, Benjamin, Bell, D. Bruce
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY Taylor & Francis Group 01.01.1998
Human Sciences Press
Subjects
Analysis of Variance
Biological and medical sciences
Counseling
Couple and family
Female
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Humans
Male
Marriage - psychology
Military Personnel
Personal Satisfaction
Premarital Examinations
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Social psychology
Time Factors
Human
Marital relation
Army
Attitude
Psychological counseling
Social interaction
Preparation
Satisfaction
Sex
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Summary:Wives' marital satisfaction was evaluated as a function of a premarital counseling typology in an analysis of data Pom several thousand military couples surveyed i n 1992. Among couples who jointly reported participation in fwemarital counseling, results indicated that both having premarital counseling and reporting higher satisfaction with the counseling experience were associated with higher levels of marital satisfaction. Among couples who disagreed about having had premarital counseling, results were still favorable but less consistent. Implications for clinical pactice are discussed.
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ISSN:0092-623X
1521-0715
DOI:10.1080/00926239808414665