Chapter Twelve: Mutual Marital Scripts

01/18/2000


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Chapter Twelve: Mutual Marital Scripts

Introduction

Derivation of the Term “Happiness”

One might be happy in the absence of a problem.

A Problem: A wide gap between one’s expectations and one’s perceived positions with respect to those expectations.

A Problem: A wide gap between one’s expectations and one’s perceived positions with respect to those expectations.

One might be happy in the absence of a problem.

Unrealistic expectations can lead to problems, thus unhappiness

Correlates of Happiness: Use MicroCase Analysis System

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Marital Happiness is One Indicator of Marital Quality

Effect of Having Children on Marital Happiness--Next Page

Effect of Having Children on Marital Happiness

Effect of Age on Marital Happiness--Next Slide

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Effect of Having a Divorce on Subsequent Marital Happiness--Next slide

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Cohabitation and Marriage

Cohabitation and Marriage (Cont.)

Concept of Power

Conjugal Power

Resource-Based Theory of Conjugal Power

Evaluation of Blood and Wolfe’s Resource Theory of Power

End Chapter 12

Author: Gene Starbuck

Email: [email protected]

Home Page: www.mesastate.edu/~starbuck

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