James Spencer L
Brigham Young University.
J Fam Psychol. 2015 Jun;29(3):479-89. doi: 10.1037/fam0000082. Epub 2015 Apr 27.
Previous work has compared marital quality between stably married and divorced individuals. Less work has examined the possibility of variation among divorcés in trajectories of marital quality as divorce approaches. This study addressed that hole by first examining whether distinct trajectories of marital quality can be discerned among women whose marriages ended in divorce and, second, the profile of women who experienced each trajectory. Latent class growth analyses with longitudinal data from a nationally representative sample were used to "look backward" from the time of divorce. Although demographic and socioeconomic variables from this national sample did not predict the trajectories well, nearly 66% of divorced women reported relatively high levels of both happiness and communication and either low or moderate levels of conflict. Future research including personality or interactional patterns may lead to theoretical insights about patterns of marital quality in the years leading to divorce.
以往的研究比较了婚姻稳定的人和离婚者的婚姻质量。较少有研究探讨随着离婚临近，离婚者的婚姻质量轨迹是否存在差异。本研究填补了这一空白，首先考察了婚姻以离婚告终的女性中是否能辨别出不同的婚姻质量轨迹，其次考察了经历每种轨迹的女性的特征。利用来自全国代表性样本的纵向数据进行潜在类别增长分析，从离婚时“回顾”过去。尽管这个全国样本中的人口统计学和社会经济变量并不能很好地预测这些轨迹，但近66%的离婚女性报告称自己的幸福水平和沟通水平较高，冲突水平较低或中等。未来包括个性或互动模式的研究可能会带来关于离婚前几年婚姻质量模式的理论见解。
