Linking financial strain to marital instability: Examining the roles of emotional distress and marital interaction
CG Gudmunson, IF Beutler, CL Israelsen… - Journal of Family and …, 2007 - Springer
CG Gudmunson, IF Beutler, CL Israelsen, JK McCoy, EJ Hill
Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 2007•SpringerUsing a sample consisting of 4,997 married couples from the National Survey of Families
and Households, individual emotional distress, the occurrence of couple disagreements,
couple fighting, and couple quality time together mediated the relationship between financial
strain and personal assessments of marital instability. The overall results suggest that
financial strain influences both positive and negative forms of couple interaction which are
stronger mediators than personal emotional distress of the relationship between financial …
and Households, individual emotional distress, the occurrence of couple disagreements,
couple fighting, and couple quality time together mediated the relationship between financial
strain and personal assessments of marital instability. The overall results suggest that
financial strain influences both positive and negative forms of couple interaction which are
stronger mediators than personal emotional distress of the relationship between financial …
Abstract
Using a sample consisting of 4,997 married couples from the National Survey of Families and Households, individual emotional distress, the occurrence of couple disagreements, couple fighting, and couple quality time together mediated the relationship between financial strain and personal assessments of marital instability. The overall results suggest that financial strain influences both positive and negative forms of couple interaction which are stronger mediators than personal emotional distress of the relationship between financial strain and marital instability. The results further suggest that there were no gender differences among these linkages.
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