RT Journal
T1 PSychological factors in marital happiness
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD December 2
VO 113
IS 23
SP 2085
OP 2085
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800480071029
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800480071029
AB In this book the authors discuss the marital satisfaction experienced by 2,484 subjects, including 1,133 married couples and 109 divorced couples. The technic used was psychometric. The various chapters describe the psychologic factors in marital compatibility and the development of an index of marital happiness. There are studies of the personalities of happily married and unhappily married people, with special relation to the family background. Then there are four chapters dealing with sexual factors. Here the authors discuss sleeping arrangements, contraceptive technics, sexual complaints and similar matters.In estimating their index of marital happiness, the authors concern themselves with such matters as customary methods of settling disagreements, regret of marriage, choice of spouse if life was to be lived over, and a complete score based on domestic grievances. The happiness index and the personality tests are also significant. The authors found, for example, that the presence of children often prevents