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"This Illustrated Guide for Couples Ends 12 Hurtful Arguments Once and for All!, "--Amazon.com. Conflict within relationships is complex and challenging to overcome, but Brody has identified the most common causes. She helps couples unlock the destructive cycles that drive thei…
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Gottman has proposed that there are 3 functional styles of conflict management in couple relationships, labeled Avoidant, Validating, and Volatile, and 1 dysfunctional style, labeled Hostile. Using a sample of 1,983 couples in a committed relationship, we test the association of…
Extant literature has demonstrated that having adverse childhood experiences (e.g., child maltreatment, domestic violence, etc.) would place trauma survivors at high risk for experiencing emotion dysregulation and violence later in life. While a sizable body of literature has in…
Using the lenses of social constructionism and critical feminist theory, this dissertation examines how transnational Mexican couples in the agricultural town of Mecca, Southern California, respond to the crisis created by their adolescent children using illegal substances. As p…
Background . The hazards of FC/FGC have been revisited over the past two decades, prompting efforts to eradicate the practice. Yet, there is little systematic evidence for much of the content of education programs and advocacy efforts. Objectives . To (1) examine individuals' pe…
This research explored how Arab American couples found the strength and resilience that empowered them to overcome the terrorist attacks of September 11th and the aftereffects that followed. Utilizing a family resiliency model grounded in systems theory and social constructionis…
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is associated with increased risk for cardiovascular disease and relationship difficulties. Greater exposure to couple conflict, and greater emotional and cardiovascular reactivity to such conflict, may help explain the link between PTSD and …
The purpose of this qualitative study was to gain an in-depth understanding of the systemic effects of trauma, particularly war-related traumatic stress as a result of military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, in a sample of recent war veterans and their spouses. With recent…
Understanding why some couples engage in unsafe sexual behaviors when one person is HIV infected and the other is HIV negative (i.e. serodiscordant) is important in reducing HIV infection. Within these serodiscordant couples the risk of HIV is defined clearly. Risk reduction cou…
Lorsqu'elle provient d'un héritage culturel aux valeurs traditionnelles, la famille immigrante se trouve confrontée à un nouveau standard de vie offert par la société d'accueil. L'abandon d'un environnement familier, le phénomène de déracinement suscité par le choc des différenc…
This dissertation discusses an issue that is of importance to many people throughout their lifetime—infertility. One in every eight couples (12%) is incapable of carrying a pregnancy to term after one year of natural attempts. This paper further examines the prevalence of infert…
Premarital cohabitation has received an increasing amount of attention in the literature since the late 20th century. With limited literature addressing how these couples compare to those of married couples in regards to satisfaction, commitment, and resiliency. This study inves…
Past research has demonstrated that a variety of positive and negative communication behaviors are able to distinguish between distressed and nondistressed couples (e.g., Weiss & Heyman, 1997). Additionally, distressed couples engage in significantly higher levels of certain com…
In empirical models of intra-household allocation, it is very difficult to find a source of exogenous variation in order to obtain consistent estimates of the effects of individual- or household-specific endogenous variables on the demand for (or supply of) various, goods. This …