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The article titled “Happy Marriage, Happy Life? Marital Quality and Subjective Well-Being,” (Carr & Freedman, 2014) examined data on older married couples to determine martial satisfaction, marital quality and happiness in their marriage, and their own life appraisal and their spouse’s ratings. Does a person’s marital life satisfaction have an effect on their overall life happiness and momentary well-being? This particular study demonstrates the value and how marital judgments and appraisals have in older married couples in the United States. They also wanted to know specifically the male-female connection and the associations in marital quality and general life satisfaction and in momentary well-being. The results established that marital quality is an important factor in overall happiness, and for a happy life in our daily lives. For husbands, in particular, life satisfaction is enhanced by wives’ marital happiness, even among men who view their marriages unfavorably.
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Marital happiness is a judgment made by a spouse that indicates the sense of well being or satisfaction he or she experiences in the marital relationship. Ever since changing social and economic conditions at the end of the nineteenth century prompted concern about the breakdown of the family, social scientists have sought to understand marital functioning. The two earliest studies in this domain were on sexual behavior (predating Kinsey by a decade) and both examined its role in marital happiness. The central status accorded happiness in this nascent research area gained the attention of researchers from a variety of disciplines, including psychology, sociology, family studies and communications. To this day, what has been variously labelled marital happiness, satisfaction, adjustment, success, companionship or some synonym reflective of the quality of the marriage remains the most frequently studied aspect of marriage. This focus is perhaps not surprising because the protective effect of a happy marriage for the mental and physical health of spouses, as well as the healthy development of their children, is well documented. Initially researchers, mostly sociologists, paid greatest attention to identifying demographic correlates of marital happiness using large scale surveys (the sociological tradition) and went on to complement this effort by examining individual differences associated with marital happiness. In reviewing 50 years of this research genre, Nye (1988, p. 315) concluded: "early on [1939]…Burgess and Cottrell…took every individual characteristic they could think of and correlated it with marital success, producing an R of about .50 …Not a bad start, but we have not progressed much beyond that point in 50 years." Not surprisingly, this approach was foregone when psychologists began to systematically study marriage in the late 1960s and 1970s. Efforts turned instead to focus on identifying observable interaction behaviors that might underlie marital happiness (the behavioral tradition). The findings of the extensive literature that emerged on the behavioral correlates of marital happiness can be summarized in terms of a simple ratio: the ratio of agreements to disagreements is greater than 1 for happy couples and less than 1 for unhappy couples. In addition, observational research documented that the behavior of happily married couples is less predictable (structured) than that of unhappy spouses who tend to reciprocate one another's (negative) behavior. Although seemingly obvious, such findings contradicted the long-standing belief that happy couples are characterized by a quid pro quo principle according to which they exchange positive behavior. Reliably both observed and self reported behavior account for approximately 25% of the variance in marital happiness. The limits of a behavioral account of marital happiness became apparent by the 1980s at which time attention began to focus on processes that might mediate the behavioral exchanges associated with marital happiness (the mediational tradition). One such process is affect and research on affect began to flourish (though study of marital happiness as affect never took root). A simple index of affect, for which considerable data already existed, was nonverbal behavior.
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