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Commitment, Rituals, And Initiator Tendency In Married Couples, April Bakker
Commitment, Rituals, And Initiator Tendency In Married Couples, April Bakker
All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023
The purpose of this study was to examine and make explicit the relationships between commitment, rituals, and initiator tendency. Past research and theory suggests that these ideas are related. Two research questions guided the study: (1) How are initiator tendency and the number of rituals a couple participates in related to the commitment style?, and (2) How are initiator tendency and the meaningfulness of rituals related to commitment style?
Data were obtained from 55 couples who completed a questionnaire to measure participation and meaningfulness of rituals, initiator tendency, and commitment. Final analyses were performed with only 39 of these couples …