Links between premarital cohabitation and subsequent marital quality, stability, and divorce: A comparison of covenant versus standard marriages
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Study is conducted to examine whether a covenant marriage, which requires a stronger commitment to maintaining the marriage and involves substantial barriers to divorce, improves the negative effects of premarital cohabitation on marital quality and stability or reduces the likelihood of divorce. The results have shown that once the sociodemographic characteristics, premarital relationship factors and marital factors are controlled, the relationships between premarital and cohabitation and marital outcomes reduces to non-significance.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2006
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Moving from cohabitation to marriage: effects on relationship quality
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A study is conducted to test whether marriage is associated with an improvement in the relationship quality of cohabiters by using data from Households and the National Survey of Families. Cohabitors, who marry, experience a high level of relationship quality, have greater happiness, fewer disagreements, stability in their unions and are able to resolve conflicts in their relationship through nonviolent means.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2004
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Race-ethnic differences in marital quality and divorce
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Marital quality and marital dissolution among Whites, Blacks and Mexican Americans were compared with the help of data from National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH). Results concluded that Blacks are most likely to divorce than Whites.
Publication Name: Social Science Research
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0049-089X
Year: 2007
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