How Does Premarital Cohabitation Affect Trajectories of Marital Quality?

Autor/inn/en	Tach, Laura; Halpern-Meekin, Sarah
Titel	How Does Premarital Cohabitation Affect Trajectories of Marital Quality?
Quelle	In: Journal of Marriage and Family, 71 (2009) 2, S.298-317 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-2445
DOI	10.1111/j.1741-3737.2009.00600.x
Schlagwörter	Marital Status; Marital Satisfaction; Females; Interpersonal Relationship; Whites; African Americans; Hispanic Americans; Birth; Models + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Familienstand; Weibliches Geschlecht; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; White; Weißer; Afroamerikaner; Hispanic; Hispanoamerikaner; Geburt; Analogiemodell
Abstract	We investigate the link between premarital cohabitation and trajectories of subsequent marital quality using random effects growth curve models and repeated measures of marital quality from married women in the NLSY-79 (N = 3,598). We find that premarital cohabitors experience lower quality marital relationships on average, but this is driven by cohabitors with nonmarital births. Premarital cohabitors without nonmarital births report the same marital quality as women who did not cohabit before marriage. Nonmarital childbearing is more strongly associated with lower subsequent marital quality for White women than for Black or Hispanic women. Marital quality declines at similar rates for all couples regardless of cohabitation or nonmarital childbearing status. These findings are robust to numerous alternative model specifications. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10