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Informationen zum Autor Everett, Craig Klappentext Clinicians and educators in the marriage and family field will gain valuable insight into the relationship dynamics that cause marital stress and the interactional factors that may result in divorce from this excellent book. The perceptive theoretical, empirical, and clinical chapters included in Marital Instability and Divorce Outcome examine why certain elements in relationships result in divorce while others do not and assist professionals in evaluating these elements. Specifically, this provocative volume enables professionals to examine how a marriage has weathered developmental periods of stability and instability, whether or not it has the necessary resources to survive, and, in the event a divorce occurs, what will be the most likely post-divorce adjustment for the marriage partners. Zusammenfassung The theoretical, empirical, and clinical chapters included in this book outline why certain elements in relationships result in divorce while others do not and assist professionals in evaluating these elements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Introduction I. Issues of Marital Instability Divorce and the Wheel Theory of Love Symmetricality/Complimentarity and Their Relationship to Marital Instability Demographic Subgroup Contributions to Divorce Cause Constellations Profiles of the Divorce Prone: The Self Involved Narcissist Divorce Likelihood Among Anglos and Mexican Americans II. Divorce Outcome Patterns Traumas Versus Sterns: A Paradigm of Positive Versus Negative Divorce Outcomes An Exploratory Analysis of the Construct of Leavers Versus Left as It Relates to Levinger’s Social Exchange Theory of Attractions, Barriers, and Alternative Attractions Initiator Status and Separation Adjustment A Preliminary Investigation of Family Systems’ Influences on Individual Divorce Adjustment After the Divorce: Familial Factors That Predict Well-Being for Older and Younger Persons A Comparison of Physical and Emotional Health After Divorce in a Canadian and United States’ Sample ...
