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ArticleJournal of family issues2023

A Cohort Comparison of Midlife Marital Quality: A Quarter Century of Change.

Matthew R Wright, Susan L Brown, Wendy D Manning

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Article in Journal of family issues, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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0 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Matthew R WrightAppalachian State University, Boone, NC, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8283-357X
Susan L BrownBowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3350-4160
Wendy D ManningBowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH, USA.
Bowling Green State University · USAppalachian State University · US

Funding

Research Development CoreR24HD050959 · NICHD · BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI MANNING, WENDY D. · 2005 to 2016
$2.6M
Computing and Data CoreP2CHD050959 · NICHD · BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI BROWN, SUSAN L. · 2016 to 2021
$1.2M
NICHD NIH HHS P2C HD050959NICHD NIH HHS R24 HD050959
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Marital quality has been declining among recent cohorts, but whether this pattern characterizes middle-aged and older married adults is largely unknown. The doubling of the divorce rate among persons over the age of 50 years foretells poorer quality marriages for today's midlife adults than a generation ago. Combining data on married individuals aged 50-65 years from the 1987-88 National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the 2013 Families and Relationships Study, we conduct a cohort comparison of five dimensions of midlife marital quality. Today's older adults report more marital disagreement and instability as well as less fairness and interaction with their spouses than their counterparts did a generation ago. The two cohorts report comparable levels of marital happiness. Consistent with the upward trend in divorce during the second half of life, the quality of midlife marriages appears to have declined over the past quarter century.

Indexed as

dyadic relationship/quality/satisfactiongray divorceintimate relationshipsmarital qualitymarriage

Identifiers

PMID36683860
PMCPMC9850426
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