Marital and Romantic Satisfaction Among Older African Americans

There remains a lack of knowledge on marital satisfaction of African Americans generally, but particularly older African Americans. In addition, only a handful of studies investigate satisfaction among couples who are unmarried. With data from the National Survey of American Life, this study examined the correlates of romantic and marital satisfaction among older African Americans. Findings reveal that married older African Americans were slightly more satisfied with their relationship than individuals who were either remarried or unmarried but in a romantic relationship. Among older African American married adults, older age was associated with higher marital satisfaction, and men had higher levels of marital satisfaction than women. Also, married older African Americans with lower family incomes reported higher marital satisfaction. Given the limited research on older African Americans couples, either married or unmarried, this study offers valuable implications for individuals and professionals engaging these couples in practical settings.

Affective Behavior in Parent Couples Undergoing Couple Therapy: Contrasting Case Studies

Being in a romantic relationship is characterized by a high degree of intimacy and affective involvement. Affective behavior indicates the emotional content in couple interactions and therefore promotes an understanding of the evolution of romantic relationships. When couples are also parents, their affective behavior reflects their romantic and coparental bonds. In this paper, we present an observation of parent couples’ affective behavior during a coparenting conflict discussion task to document whether and how much it improved during couple therapy. Two contrasting cases of affective behavior change are included. Observational coding of affective behavior within pre- and post-intervention coparenting conflict discussion tasks was carried out to compute means and CIs for each partner in both cases. In addition, the partners’ coparental and romantic satisfaction were evaluated through validated self-report questionnaires in pre- and post-intervention assessments; this helped document whether the partners’ coparental and romantic satisfaction were dissimilar between the two cases. Finally, a clinical analysis of both cases was realized with the contribution of the therapists to investigate possible differences within therapy sessions. Statistical analyses revealed negative means of affective behavior for couple A in the pre-intervention assessment and positive means in the post-intervention assessment. Partners from couple B had negative means of affective behavior in the pre- and post-intervention assessments. Results concerning coparental and romantic satisfaction differed: Couple A’s coparental satisfaction slightly increased and the romantic satisfaction somewhat decreased, whereas couple B’s coparental satisfaction remained stable and the romantic satisfaction slightly increased between the pre- and post-intervention assessments. The clinical analysis revealed that the interactional quality of couple A slightly improved within therapy sessions and that both partners succeeded in working together as coparents, notwithstanding their romantic distress. Couple B conveyed coparental distress and exhibited poor interactional quality throughout therapy sessions (e.g., repeated criticism and contempt). This study contributes to enriching the more traditional empirical research methods in the field of couple psychotherapy, as it takes into account microlevel affective changes within parent couples’ interactions in addition to self-reported data. Furthermore, the analysis of therapy sessions supports the importance of working with affective behavior in couple therapy.

Pornography Use and Psychological Science: A Call for Consideration

Pornography use is both ubiquitous and controversial in developed nations. Although research related to pornography use has flourished in topical and special-interest journals for several decades, much of this work has remained in the periphery of mainstream interests. The current article reviews how pornography use is likely relevant to various domains within psychological science, particularly emphasizing its significance in relationship research, adolescent-development research, and clinical science. Specifically, pornography use is likely salient to research examining both sexual and romantic satisfaction. Additionally, it is also likely relevant to understanding adolescent sexual development, particularly among sexual-minority populations. Finally, a large body of research suggests that pornography use may become problematic, either because of excessive use or moral incongruence about such use, illustrating its salience in clinical psychological science. Collectively, the current research related to pornography use suggests that it is of interest to multiple domains in psychological science and that its effects can range from positive to neutral to negative.

The Determinants of Phubbing Behaviour: a Millenials Perspective

In this contemporary world, where disruptive technologies are making their way to change the entire lifestyle of a mankind, smart phones have emerged to be a life changer. The smart phones which contain the features of pocket computers possess many properties which include camera, internet, online video streaming, game applications and social media networking. However, despite their obvious advantages in bringing people together virtually, smartphones on the contrary have pulled the people apart in reality. Further, the increased usage of smartphone has given birth to different addictions which create the tendencies for the basis of „Phubbing‟. The term „Phubbing‟ is a combination of two words „phone‟ and „snubbing‟. According to oxford dictionary, phubbing is “The practice of ignoring one's companion or companions in order to pay attention to one's phone or other mobile device” led to hamper the social relationships and romantic satisfaction, that ultimately resulting into a partner‟s depression and dissatisfaction with life. The use of phone during a conversation interfere the sense of connection to the other person, and obstructs the quality of the conversation. Therefore, a deep understanding and insight is required in this area so as to protect & develop young brain socially and proactively. Keeping this in mind, a study was conducted among the millennial of Delhi (India) region so as to identify the key antecedents of Phubbing behavior. For the present study, 360 responses were collected through Purposive sampling technique. The study found that Watsapp addiction; Game addiction and Social Media addiction are the major determinants in affecting phubbing behavior of the millennial.

University students’ emotional intelligence and romantic relationship satisfaction: A quantitative studyÜniversite öğrencilerinin duygusal zeka düzeyleri ile romantik ilişki doyumları: Nicel bir çalışma

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between emotional intelligence and romantic relationship satisfaction among university students. Forms used for people’s emotional intelligence Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale, for romantic relationship satisfaction Hendrick Relationship Satisfaction Scale, for demographic variable Personal Info Form. 546 university student joined to research. 274 of them in Çukurova University; 272 of them in Mersin University; 282 of them at 4th grade and 264 of them at the 3rd grade. All of them filled the Schutte Emotional Intelligence Scale and Personal Info Form. 410 students who have romantic relationship filled the Hendrick relationship satisfaction scale; 261 of them women and 149 of them are men. The age range of the participants is 20 to 28. Data were analyzed by pearson correlation, simple linear regression analysis, Mann Whitney U. test and Kruskal Wallis H. test. Results showed that emotional intelligence is predicting romantic satisfaction. Emotional intelligence and romantic satisfaction is not different in gender. There is little positive and meaningful relationship in emotional intelligence, romantic satisfaction and age. Emotional intelligence of the people who have darlings is higher than those who doesnt. Romantic relationship satisfaction of people with high emotional intelligence is high too. Results showed that people with high emotional intelligence satisfy their partners’ romantic relationship satisfaction better.Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file.ÖzetBu araştırmanın amacı, üniversite öğrencilerinin duygusal zekâ düzeylerine göre yaşadıkları romantik ilişkilerdeki ilişki doyumlarını incelemektir. Araştırmaya katılan bireylerin duygusal zekâ düzeylerini belirlemek için Gözden Geçirilmiş Schutte Duygusal Zekâ Ölçeği; romantik ilişki doyumlarını belirlemek için Hendrick İlişki Doyum Ölçeği; demografik özelliklerini belirlemek için de Kişisel Bilgi Formu kullanılmıştır. Araştırmaya 546 üniversite öğrencisi katılmıştır. Araştırmaya katılan öğrencilerin tamamı Schutte Duygusal Zekâ Ölçeği’ni ve Kişisel Bilgi Formu’nu doldurmuştur. Hendrick İlişki Doyumu Ölçeği’ni romantik ilişkisi olan 410 kişi doldurmuştur; bunların 261’i kadın, 149’u da erkektir. Katılımcıların yaş ranjı 20 ile 28’dir. Veriler pearson korelasyon, basit doğrusal regresyon analizi, Mann Whitney U. testi ve Kruskal Wallis H. testi ile çözümlenmiştir. Sonuçlar, duygusal zekânın romantik ilişki doyumunu yordadığını göstermektedir. Duygusal zekâ ve romantik ilişki doyumu cinsiyete göre farklılık göstermemektedir. Duygusal zekâ ve romantik ilişki doyumu ile yaş arasında düşük düzeyde pozitif yönde istatistiksel olarak anlamlı bir ilişki vardır. Sevgilisi olanların duygusal zekâ düzeyleri sevgilisi olmayanlara kıyasla daha yüksek olduğu bulunmuştur. Duygusal zeka düzeyi yüksek olan öğrencilerin romantik ilişki doyumları da yüksektir. Sonuçlar duygusal zekâ düzeyi yüksek olan öğrencilerin romantik ilişki doyumlarının da yüksek olduğunu göstermektedir.