Is the U-Curve of Marital Satisfaction an Illusion? A 40-Year Study of Marriage

Measuring Dyadic Adjustment: New Scales for Assessing the Quality of Marriage and Similar Dyads

1976 • 6,912 citations

Short Marital-Adjustment and Prediction Tests: Their Reliability and Validity

1959 • 2,868 citations

Adaptation to Life

1977 • 1,460 citations

The Future Of Marriage

1972 • 1,035 citations

The Natural History of Alcoholism

1983 • 622 citations

Personality and compatibility: A prospective analysis of marital stability and marital satisfaction.

1987 • 500 citations

The Assessment of Marital Quality: A Reevaluation

1987 • 479 citations

Psychological factors in marital happiness.

1939 • 413 citations

Marital Quality: A Review of the Seventies

1980 • 374 citations

Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle

1970 • 355 citations

Perceived Marital Quality and Family Life-Cycle Categories: A Further Analysis

1983 • 223 citations

Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle: A Reevaluation

1974 • 220 citations

Satisfaction with Various Aspects of Marriage over the Life Cycle: A Random Middle Class Sample

1970 • 178 citations

Factors of Marital Adjustment in Locke's Marital Adjustment Test

1974 • 174 citations

Assessing Marital Quality with Distressed and Nondistressed Couples: A Comparison and Equivalency Table for Three Frequently Used Measures

1990 • 165 citations

Natural History of Male Psychologic Health

1979 • 158 citations

Disenchantment in the Later Years of Marriage

1961 • 140 citations

Predicting Adjustment in Marriage: A Comparison of a Divorced and a Happily Married Group.

1951 • 130 citations

Bases of Marital Satisfaction among Men and Women

1981 • 112 citations

Divorce and Marital Instability over the Life Course

1986 • 91 citations

Predicting Adjustment in Marriage

1951 • 78 citations

An Empirical Evaluation of the Family Life Cycle

1979 • 78 citations

A Half Century of Marriage: Continuity or Change?

1988 • 70 citations

Marital Satisfaction over the Family Life Cycle: A Critique and Proposal

1979 • 68 citations

Retrospective Reports by Healthy Intelligent Elderly People of Personal Events of their Adult Lives

1981 • 66 citations

Natural history of male psychological health: VI. Correlates of successful marriage and fatherhood

1978 • 59 citations

Reliability of Maternal Retrospection: Preliminary Report

1964 • 34 citations

Significant Elements in the Relationship of Long-Married Couples

1980 • 29 citations

Marital Attitudes Over 40 Years: a Longitudinal and Cohort Analysis

1984 • 28 citations

The Association of Ancestral Longevity With Successful Aging

1991 • 19 citations

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1955 • 0 citations