Background: Weight trajectories mirror each other in couples, and weight-regulating habits may also be interdependent. This study explored 1) interdependence in habit automaticity of self-weighing ...and exercise in spouses participating in a couples-based weight loss (WL) program and 2) if own or partner habit automaticity predicted WL outcomes. Methods: Participants (n=64 dyads, 50% female, BMI 33.5±5.4 kg/m2, 92.2% White) in a couples-focused WL trial completed the Self-Reported Habit Index Automaticity Subscale and provided objective weight at baseline, 3, 6, and 12 months. Empty dyadic multilevel models with correlated residuals were estimated to examine interdependence in automaticity; then, dyadic models controlling for baseline weight, condition, and baseline habit automaticity were estimated to test whether automaticity predicted weight. Results: 97 participants from 50 dyads provided complete data. Selfweighing and exercise habit automaticity were not correlated within couples at baseline or 6 months but were correlated at 3 months (exercise, p=.02, and a trend for self-weighing, p=.08). Controlling for baseline habit automaticity, own or partner baseline habit automaticity did not predict 3-month WL; however, greater partner self-weighing automaticity at 3 months predicted more WL at 6 months (p=.01). Greater own self-weighing automaticity at 6 months predicted 12-month WL (p=.02). Weight loss was interdependent within couples at all timepoints. Conclusions: This study provides mixed evidence regarding the dyadic nature of habit automaticity in couples attending behavioral WL treatment, yet weight change was interdependent among spouses. More research is needed to understand the behavioral underpinnings of weight co-regulation in couples.
In this paper, we introduce original definitions of Partner ruled surfaces according to the Darboux frame of a curve lying on an arbitrary regular surface in E3. It concerns Tg Partner ruled ...surfaces, Tn Partner ruled surfaces, and gn Partner ruled surfaces. We aim to study the simultaneous developability conditions of each couple of two Partner ruled surfaces. Finally, we give an illustrative example for our study.
Every couple can be located on a developmental time line, from first dates to final good-byes, and compared to the millions of other couples who have faced similar developmental challenges. Clinical ...knowledge about life-cycle stages serves as a reference point for the couple therapist, much as diagnoses do for the individual therapist. Based on 30 years of couple therapy experience, Dr. Fishel, a Harvard Medical School professor, offers a practical guide for therapists at any stage of their own professional development. The author includes case examples and research findings about clients diverse not only in sexual orientation, but also age, race, ethnicity, class, and health. The book focuses on the six major life-cycle changes that couples typically traverse, from dating to death. Stage one is about dating, partner selection, and the decision to make a long-term commitment. Stage two focuses on the couple's transformation during the transition to parenthood. Stage three is about midlife couples when there are increased work and parenting demands as well as care-giving of aging parents. Stage four is about late midlife couples who may be launching children, heading for retirement, and becoming grandparents. Stage five focuses on late-life couples, facing issues of aging, mutual dependency, and generational role changes. Stage six is about death as an endpoint to marriage, with a focus on illness, legacy, and saying good-bye. For each stage, the author shares scientific research, common presentations and rich case examples, followed by developmentally-informed questions and topics for couple therapists to pursue.
The couple relationship is at the centre of this book. The complex nature of the couple attachment is emphasised, drawing both on psychoanalytic concepts and on attachment theory. The chapters aim to ...integrate theory with practice and can be seen, both separately and together, as offering new insights into the intricate web of psychic fantasies, shared unconscious anxieties and external realities that shape the attachment between the couple.
Se buscó trazar un paralelo entre instrumentos que evalúan la calidad conyugal y la forma como las parejas conceptuan la calidad de su conyugalidad. Se entrevistó a 25 parejas para conocer lo que ...consideraban una relación de calidad. Las entrevistas fueron analizadas a partir de las temáticas presentadas por los sujetos y posteriormente se comparó con las variables de los instrumentos más utilizados para medir la calidad conyugal. Se identificó cinco temas que corresponden parcialmente a los conceptos evaluados por los instrumentos. Se han detectado diferencias culturales en los instrumentos estadounidenses en cuanto a la valorización de algunos temas sobre otros. Se propone que se haga más investigaciones con la población latinoamericana para comprender sus particularidades y desarrollar medidas que estén de acuerdo con tales especificidades.
As the uproar over the recent New York State law demonstrates, same-sex marriage is a perennial hot-button issue, certain to impact the 2012 election. This book provides a useful roadmap to both ...sides of this contentious matter. Taking a “point/counterpoint” approach, the authors consider key questions about the institution itself: What is marriage for? Is marriage meant to be a gendered institution? Why is the state in the business of sanctioning marriage? Where do the needs of children fit in? Will legalization of same-sex marriage lead to legalization of polygamy? Taking one view, the book argues that society should support same-sex marriage because of its interest in supporting stable households for all its members, gay and straight alike. Taking a different view, the book argues that government recognition of same-sex unions as marriages will disconnect marriage from its key public mission furthering responsible procreation, while stigmatizing traditional views of sex, marriage and family as bigotry. Both authors agree that the issue deserves thoughtful, rigorous engagement.
Marriage and Health Liu, Hui; Reczek, Corinne; Wilkinson, Lindsey
2020, 2020-03-13
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Studies have shown that married couples have better mental and physical health than unmarried people. Leading scholars and policy makers propose that marriage can provide similar benefits to people ...in both same-sex and different-sex relationships. Though research on the health and well-being of same-sex couples is a new and growing field, Marriage and Health: The Well-Being of Same-Sex Couples represents the forefront of marriage and health research and the far-reaching policy implications for the health of same-sex couples. This collection of essays presents new perspectives that address current opportunities and challenges faced by people in same-sex unions in multiple domains of well-being, including physical and mental health, social support, socialized behaviors, and stigmas. The book offers a broad view of same-sex couples’ experiences by examining not only marriage and civil unions, but also dating and cohabiting relationships as well as same-sex sexual experiences outside of relationships.
The purchase of intimacy Zelizer, Viviana A. Rotman
2005., 20090209, 2009, 2005, 2005-01-01, 20050101
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In their personal lives, people consider it essential to separate economics and intimacy. We have, for example, a long-standing taboo against workplace romance, while we see marital love as different ...from prostitution because it is not a fundamentally financial exchange. In The Purchase of Intimacy, Viviana Zelizer mounts a provocative challenge to this view. Getting to the heart of one of life's greatest taboos, she shows how we all use economic activity to create, maintain, and renegotiate important ties—especially intimate ties—to other people. In everyday life, we invest intense effort and worry to strike the right balance. For example, when a wife's income equals or surpasses her husband's, how much more time should the man devote to household chores or child care? Sometimes legal disputes arise. Should the surviving partner in a same-sex relationship have received compensation for a partner's death as a result of 9/11? Through a host of compelling examples, Zelizer shows us why price is central to three key areas of intimacy: sexually tinged relations; health care by family members, friends, and professionals; and household economics. She draws both on research and materials ranging from reports on compensation to survivors of 9/11 victims to financial management Web sites and advice books for same-sex couples. From the bedroom to the courtroom, The Purchase of Intimacy opens a fascinating new window on the inner workings of the economic processes that pervade our private lives.
The exercise of conjugality is complex and requires an emotional and financial investment from the spouses. This article is the result of an empirical study with a quantitative design. The ...relationships between the meanings of money, money management, dyadic adjustment and marital conflict were investigated in a Brazilian sample of 246 married individuals. The positive meaning given to money was positively related to shared money management system, greater dyadic adjustment and lower indices of conflict between the couples. Couples that used the shared money management system presented greater dyadic adjustment and lower indices of conflict. On the other hand, the levels dyadic adjustment and conflict between the couples were similar between total management of expenditures system and independent money management system. The shared money management system may be classified as a positive way for couples managing their finances.
COVID‐19 and the associated lockdowns meant many working parents were faced with doing paid work and family care at home simultaneously. To investigate how they managed, this article draws a ...subsample of parents in dual‐earner couples (n = 1536) from a national survey of 2722 Australian men and women conducted during lockdown in May 2020. It asked how much time respondents spent in paid and unpaid labour, including both active and supervisory care, and about their satisfaction with work–family balance and how their partner shared the load. Overall, paid work time was slightly lower and unpaid work time was very much higher during lockdown than before it. These time changes were most for mothers, but gender gaps somewhat narrowed because the relative increase in childcare was higher for fathers. More mothers than fathers were dissatisfied with their work–family balance and partner’s share before COVID‐19. For some the pandemic improved satisfaction levels, but for most they became worse. Again, some gender differences narrowed, mainly because more fathers also felt negatively during lockdown than they had before.
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