Year: 1976
Type: report
Abstract: Factors that contribute to the happy marriage . . .have been treated by innumerable writers. . . .Around few topics, indeed, has there ever accumulated such a hopelessly jumbled confusion of information and misinformation.Where light is so much needed but is so greatly lacking, even the most trifling contribution becomes a worthwhile goal.--Terman, 1938 1. Introduction.There was considerable effort by social scientists in the 1930's and 1940's to construct prediction equations for marital success.'These were in part inspired by the previous success of psychologists in predicting achievement in school by means of an IQ test.2These studies attempted to construct both an index of marital success and an estimating equation for predicting success by using personal and family background, economic and attitudinal information from the couple.Constructing the marital success index proved a manageable task, but the subsequent lack of attention paid these predicting equations is testimony to their limited usefulness.3For the twenty years following these efforts, social scientists avoided such research with more determination than economists eschewing
DOI: 10.3386/w0147
Author: Robert Michael
Institutions: National Bureau of Economic Research, University of Chicago
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1548864275