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A Study of the Relationship Between Love Attitudes and Marital Adjustment Through Seven Stages of the Marital Life Cycle (open access)

A Study of the Relationship Between Love Attitudes and Marital Adjustment Through Seven Stages of the Marital Life Cycle

The problem of this study was to investigate the relationship between attitudes of love and marital adjustment through seven stages of the marital life cycle. The purpose of the investigation was to determine the changes which occur in attitude toward love and marital adjustment through the marital life cycle. The average number of subjects in each of the seven marital groups was 16, for a total of 114 couples or 228 subjects. All subjects were volunteers from three North Texas church populations. Test data for each of the seven marital groups consisted of husbands" and wives' scores on the Marital Adjustment Test and the Love Attitudes Inventory.
Date: May 1981
Creator: Lawson, David M. (David Melton), 1952-
System: The UNT Digital Library