PSYC 221 Lecture Notes - Social Mobility, Job Satisfaction
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Average length of marriage in u. s. in 18 years. Only half of adult population married, 25% of children have single parent homes(mother) Marriages less likely to end than other relationships but less likely to last than they used to. More cohabitation, more single parents, more women working=marriage no longer necessity. Expectations of marriage became too high want love and passion and no disappointments. Stress spillover=stress from other places is brought home and interacts with innocent partners our adaptive processes determine how this will go. Women with good communication skills, have encountered stress before are more resilient to stress of being new mother than other women who haven"t experienced much stress: the pair project. 35% divorced, 20% unhappy, 45% happy but still less loving than before. Enduring dynamics model=spouses bring problems and incompatibilities to marriages that show during courtship if headed for divorce, it will show in beginning. Emergent distress model=behavior that destroys marriages occurs after wedding.
