Whitton Sarah W, Stanley Scott M, Markman Howard J, Johnson Christine A
Department of Psychology, Mail Center 0376, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH 45221-0376.
J Marriage Fam. 2013 Apr 1;75(2):276-287. doi: 10.1111/jomf.12008.
A random multistate sample of married individuals ( = 1,931) was used to explore whether more positive attitudes toward divorce and weaker commitment to marriage may contribute to the greater instability of remarriages than first marriages. Remarried adults, whether or not they brought children from a previous union into the remarriage, reported marital quality (happiness and conflict) equal to those in first marriages. They also reported more positive attitudes toward divorce, which were associated with higher divorce proneness (i.e., thinking about and taking actions toward divorce). Marriage type interacted with marital quality to predict divorce proneness, such that the association between low marital quality and divorce proneness was stronger for remarried individuals than for those in first marriages. This suggests that remarried adults may be more likely than adults in first marriages to take steps toward divorce when experiencing marital distress, possibly reflecting a weaker commitment to marriage.
我们采用了一个随机抽取的多状态已婚个体样本（(n = 1931)）来探究，相较于初婚，对离婚持更积极态度以及对婚姻的忠诚度较低是否会导致再婚的稳定性更低。再婚成年人，无论他们是否将前次婚姻中的孩子带入再婚家庭，所报告的婚姻质量（幸福感和冲突情况）与初婚者相当。他们还表示对离婚持更积极的态度，而这与更高的离婚倾向相关（即考虑离婚并采取离婚行动）。婚姻类型与婚姻质量相互作用，共同预测离婚倾向，具体表现为，对于再婚个体而言，低婚姻质量与离婚倾向之间的关联比初婚个体更强。这表明，与初婚成年人相比，再婚成年人在经历婚姻困扰时可能更有可能采取离婚措施，这可能反映出他们对婚姻的忠诚度较低。
