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Marital Satisfaction Across The Transition To Parenthood, Kayla M. Sanders
Marital Satisfaction Across The Transition To Parenthood, Kayla M. Sanders
Department of Sociology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Many studies have documented the decline in marital satisfaction following the birth of a child. This decline has been attributed to individual factors such as stress, role strain and tension, and an increased division of labor. The current study focuses on couple-level characteristics such as the duration of their relationship, religious frequency, and economic stability indicators. This study utilized the first two waves (1980 and 1983) of the Marital Instability over the Life Course study. Wave I (1980) was analyzed using OLS regression to predict scores of marital satisfaction at baseline. Several interactions were also run using data from Wave …