Article
Associations Between Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Marital Stability in Remarriages
Journal of Divorce & Remarriage
Document Type
Article
Publisher
Routledge
Publication Date
5-31-2019
Disciplines
Abstract
Nearly half of adults in the U.S. indicated they had a close step-relative that included stepparents, stepchildren, and other close relationships. The prevalence of stepfamilies is rapidly increasing and represents a population that remains largely understudied. This study explored the roles of socioemotional behaviors (positivity, negativity, and sexual interest) on marital stability for different remarriage constellations (depending on which of the couple, both partners, or neither had previous children). This study uses dyadic relationship data from 879 couples. It was hypothesized that positivity and sexual interest would be inversely related to marital instability, while negativity will be correlated with marital instability.
Citation Information
Ron C. Bean, Thomas Ledermann, Brian J. Higginbotham & Renee V. Galliher. (2019) Associations between Relationship Maintenance Behaviors and Marital Stability in Remarriages, Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, DOI: 10.1080/10502556.2019.1619385
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Divorce & Remarriage on 5/31/19, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi.org/10.1080/10502556.2019.1619385.