Marital Adjustment Over Segments of the Family Life Cycle: The Issue of Spouses' Value Similarity.

Medling, James M.; McCarrey, Michael

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ERIC Number: EJ242094

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Publication Date: 1981-Feb

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Marital Adjustment Over Segments of the Family Life Cycle: The Issue of Spouses' Value Similarity.

Medling, James M.; McCarrey, Michael

Journal of Marriage and the Family, v43 n1 p195-203 Feb 1981

Examined the relation between value system similarity of spouses and marital adjustment. Results indicated that value similarity was only peripherally related to the level of marital adjustment. However, spouse value similarity appeared to have a significant impact upon adjustment in the later years of marriage. (Author)

Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adult Development, Attitude Change, Emotional Adjustment, Emotional Development, Family Life, Interpersonal Relationship, Marriage, Spouses, Values

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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