Premarital prediction of marital quality or breakup :
[Book]
research, theory, and practice /
Thomas B. Holman, with Paul James Birch [and others]
xvii, 328 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Longitudinal research in the social and behavioral sciences
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-319) and index
General principles, implications and future directions / Thomas B. Holman, Jeffry H. Larson, Robert F. Stahmann, and Jason S. Carroll -- Epilogue and invitation / Thomas B. Holman -- Appendix A: PREParation for marriage (PREP-M) / Thomas B. Holman, Dean M. Busby, and Jeffry H. Larson -- Appendix B: The relationship quality follow-up study / Thomas B. Holman and Steven T. Linford -- Appendix C: a century-end comprehensive review of premarital predictors of marital quality and stability / Steven T. linford and Jason S. Carroll
Premarital factors and later marital quality and stability / Thomas B. Holman and Steven T. Linford -- Assumptions and methods / Thomas B. Holman and Steven T. Linford -- Breaking up before and after marriage / David B. Meredith and Thomas B. Holman -- Family-of-origin structures and processes and adult children's marital quality / Thomas B. Holman and Paul James Birch -- Individual characteristics influencing marital quality / Thomas B. Holman, Jeffry H. Larson, and Joseph A. Olsen -- Social contexts influencing marital quality / Cynthia Doxey and Thomas B. Holman -- Premarital couple interactional processes and later marital quality / Jason S. Carroll and Thomas B. Holman -- Putting it all together: four longitudinal, multivariate models of premarital prediction of marital quality / Thomas B. Holman, Steven T. Linford, Kent R. Brooks, Suzanne F. Olsen, Clifford Jay Rhoades, and Jason S. Carroll