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For Better or for Worse: Real-Ideal Discrepancies and the Marital Well-Being of Newlyweds

dc.contributor.authorRuvolo, Annen_US
dc.contributor.authorVeroff, Josephen_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-04-14T14:19:21Z
dc.date.available2010-04-14T14:19:21Z
dc.date.issued1997en_US
dc.identifier.citationRuvolo, Ann; Veroff, Joseph (1997). "For Better or for Worse: Real-Ideal Discrepancies and the Marital Well-Being of Newlyweds." Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 14(2): 223-242. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69118>en_US
dc.identifier.issn0265-4075en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/69118
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the relationship between an individual's real-ideal discrepancy about the spouse and the marital well-being of both spouses. In the first year of the study, individuals from 153 African-American couples and 160 White couples rated their partners and their ideals for their partners on 12 characteristics. Discrepancies between ratings of the partner and ideals for the partner were negatively correlated with the Year 1 marital well-being of each spouse. Also, while controlling for the Year 1 marital well-being of both partners, wives' real-ideal discrepancies about their husbands were negatively related to the Year 2 marital well-being of both partners, but husbands' discrepancies did not predict the Year 2 marital well-being of either partner. When the separate effects of discrepancies, ratings of the partner, and ideals were examined, women's discrepancies predicted the Year 2 marital well-being of both partners, and men's ratings of their wives predicted their own Year 2 marital well-being.en_US
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dc.publisherSage Publicationsen_US
dc.subject.otherIdealsen_US
dc.subject.otherMarital Well-beingen_US
dc.subject.otherReal-ideal Discrepanciesen_US
dc.titleFor Better or for Worse: Real-Ideal Discrepancies and the Marital Well-Being of Newlywedsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevelPsychologyen_US
dc.subject.hlbtoplevelSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewedPeer Revieweden_US
dc.contributor.affiliationumUniversity of Michiganen_US
dc.contributor.affiliationotherUniversity of Notre Dame, Ruvolo.1@ND.EDUen_US
dc.description.bitstreamurlhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/69118/2/10.1177_0265407597142005.pdf
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0265407597142005en_US
dc.identifier.sourceJournal of Social and Personal Relationshipsen_US
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