ANT 2130 Final: Exam Notes

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Marital adjustment: how newly married couples adjusted to life together. Suicide rates of attached and unattached people (higher) Self-reporting of feeling of happiness or general satisfaction. Unstable relationships more likely to have poor mental and physical health, changes in health, status, etc. Single, dating, married, cohabitating (recent change were most insecure, uncertain of relationship) Regardless of gender, happiest in first marriage (baggage, perception of self, etc. ) Comparison level: expected vs. actual outcome in a relationship. Comparison level for alternatives: grass is greener" when looking at possibility of a new relationship. Childless couples (with the exception of infertility) are frustrated and unhappy. Children detract from marital quality: decreased in time, finances, etc, alternatively: reporting that children were frequently the only source of satisfaction, similar decline for married couples without children. Shared leisure time of spouses and marital stability (shared interests, outside friends) Gender roles: nontraditional family behaviour (lower levels of marital satisfaction) Health (higher levels of intimacy and trust)

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