Hopes and Concerns in Couple Relationships across Adulthood and Their Association with Relationship Satisfaction

Autor/inn/en	Villar, Feliciano; Villamizar, Diana Janeth
Titel	Hopes and Concerns in Couple Relationships across Adulthood and Their Association with Relationship Satisfaction
Quelle	In: International Journal of Aging and Human Development, 75 (2012) 2, S.115-139 (25 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-4150
Schlagwörter	Adults; Interpersonal Relationship; Expectation; Goal Orientation; Satisfaction; Sentences; Content Analysis; Age Differences; Correlation; Maintenance; Foreign Countries; Dating (Social); Marital Satisfaction; Educational Attainment; Questionnaires; Aging (Individuals); Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Expectancy; Erwartung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Zufriedenheit; Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Inhaltsanalyse; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Korrelation; Ausland; Bildungsabschluss; Bildungsgut; Fragebogen; Aging; Altern; Spanien
Abstract	The study explored goals in couple relationships, and determined their association with age and the level of satisfaction expressed with the relationship. The participants were made up of 355 volunteers, aged between 20 and 78, who had been in a relationship for more than 6 months. The sample was gathered to ensure an age and gender balance. Participants' goals were ascertained by means of three sentence stems that they completed by expressing a general expectation, a hope, and a concern as regards their relationship. Satisfaction with the relationship was measured by means of Hendrick's Relationship Assessment Scale. Responses to the open-ended sentences were content analyzed and categorized. The frequency of these categories was associated with age, which indicated that an orientation toward growth was less frequent and an orientation toward maintenance was more common in older groups. Except in the youngest group, satisfaction with the relationship was negatively correlated to gains, and positively to maintenance. The study emphasizes the changes experienced in couple-related goals across adulthood and their relevance to satisfaction with the relationship, issues which have received little research attention to date. (Contains 4 tables and 3 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10