Date of Award:
5-2010
Document Type:
Thesis
Degree Name:
Master of Science (MS)
Department:
Human Development and Family Studies
Department name when degree awarded
Family, Consumer, and Human Development
Committee Chair(s)
Scot M. Allgood
Committee
Scot M. Allgood
Committee
D. Kim Openshaw
Committee
David Law
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the significance between advice, marital expectations, and marital satisfaction. This study also explored the sources couples use to gather information, or rather where they receive premarital advice, and if it was helpful. Included in this study were husbands (n = 56) and wives (n = 56) who had been married less than one year, to classify them as newlyweds. The relationship between sources of information and expectations was found to be highly significant for variables related to family of origin. It was also found that a high percentage of couples gather information from informal sources rather than from more formal methods such as premarital education classes and premarital therapy. Expectations were found to be moderately to highly significant determinants of marital satisfaction.
Checksum
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Recommended Citation
Rios, Cicile M., "The Relationship Between Premarital Advice, Expectations and Marital Satisfaction" (2010). All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023. 536.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/536
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