Marriage - Psychology
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

[Psychosocial interventions for couples living with cancer. A literature review]

30 Jul 2009 Couples experience cancer as a dyad. Step by step, they have to learn to integrate the illness into their lives. It can be assumed that psychosocial nursing interventions would offer them helpful support. Yet, there is no evidence showing which ... Read more...

Does it really feel the same? Changes in life satisfaction following repeated life events.

30 Jul 2009 Unemployment, divorce, and marriage are common life events for most people in Western societies. In a longitudinal study, the authors investigated how these life events affect life satisfaction when they occur repeatedly. Data came from the German ... Read more...

Commitment insurance: compensating for the autonomy costs of interdependence in close relationships.

30 Jul 2009 A model of the commitment-insurance system is proposed to examine how low and high self-esteem people cope with the costs interdependence imposes on autonomous goal pursuits. In this system, autonomy costs automatically activate compensatory ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Marriage - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Psychosocial interventions for couples living with cancer. A literature review] 30 Jul 2009
• Does it really feel the same? Changes in life satisfaction following repeated life events. 30 Jul 2009
• Commitment insurance: compensating for the autonomy costs of interdependence in close relationships. 30 Jul 2009
• The metamorphosis of Narcissus: communal activation promotes relationship commitment among narcissists. 19 Jul 2009
• Individual well-being in middle and older adulthood: do spousal beliefs matter? 14 Jul 2009
• Invited commentary: toward a more comprehensive social epidemiology of marital trajectories and mortality. 5 Jul 2009
• Living together apart: perceived concealment as a signal of exclusion in marital relationships. 4 Jul 2009
• [Does sexuality still have a place for couples treated with assisted reproductive techniques?] Jul 2009
• Depression and communication processes in later life marriages. 29 Jun 2009
• The influence of spouse lower cognitive function on partner health and well-being among community-dwelling older couples: moderating roles of gender and marital problems. 29 Jun 2009
• International migration of partner, autonomy and depressive symptoms among women from a mexican rural area. 29 Jun 2009
• Engagement and retention in outpatient alcoholism treatment for women. 29 Jun 2009
• Goal direction and effectiveness, emotional maturity, and nuclear family functioning. 29 Jun 2009
• Avatar acts. 29 Jun 2009
• Caregiver-recipient closeness and symptom progression in Alzheimer disease. The Cache County Dementia Progression Study. 27 Jun 2009
• What my patients taught me about love. 6 Jun 2009
• Sleep disruption and decline in marital satisfaction across the transition to parenthood. 30 May 2009
• More options lead to more searching and worse choices in finding partners for romantic relationships online: an experimental study. 30 May 2009
• 'The healing power of love': the literary/analytic bond of marriage in Freud's essay on Gradiva. 30 May 2009
• Family structure and fathers' well-being: trajectories of mental health and self-rated health. 30 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Marriage'

Definition: The social institution involving legal and/or religious sanction whereby men and women are joined together for the purpose of founding a family unit.

Descriptor UI: D008393

Alternative terms: Marriage; Marriages; Consummation of Marriage; Marriage Consummation; Marriage Consummations; Currently Married; Married, Currently; Dowry; Dowries; Ever Married; Husband-Wife Comparisons; Comparison, Husband-Wife; Comparisons, Husband-Wife; Husband Wife Comparisons; Husband-Wife Comparison; Marital Relationship; Marital Relationships; Relationship, Marital; Relationships, Marital; Marriage Age; Age, Marriage; Ages, Marriage; Marriage Ages; Marriage Duration; Duration, Marriage; Marriage Patterns; Marriage Pattern; Marriage Postponement; Marriage Postponements; Postponement, Marriage; Postponements, Marriage; Mate Selection; Mate Selections; Selection, Mate; Selections, Mate; Multiple Marriages; Marriages, Multiple; Nuptiality; Polygamy; Polygyny; Remarriage; Remarriages; Arranged Marriage; Arranged Marriages; Marriage, Arranged; Marriages, Arranged; Intermarriage; Intermarriages; Commonlaw Marriage; Commonlaw Marriages; Marriage, Commonlaw; Marriages, Commonlaw; Consensual Union; Consensual Unions; Union, Consensual; Unions, Consensual;

Related Mesh Headings: Premarital Examinations; Spouses;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; trends;

Tree Number: F01.829.263.315.500.500; I01.240.361.500.500; I01.880.225.423.500.500; N01.224.361.500.500; N01.824.308.500.500;

Technical Notes: a sociol & anthropol concept: differentiate from MARITAL STATUS, a demographic & statist concept; SPOUSES is available for the husband or wife as a person