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Premarital Relationship and Marital Adjustment: a Longitudinal Study

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In order to examine the connection between the processes through which premarital partners joint together as mate and the subsequent marital adjustment processes and outcomes, the author propose to undertake the first longitudinal study of the transition of relationships into marriage.

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A sample of 50 newly-married couples provided description of the premarital period of their relationships and data reveal their adjustment processes and outcomes were collected two-and-half years later.

Three research questions are to be answered. First, are factors leading to encounter and specific features of premarital relationship related to subsequent adjustment processes and outcomes? Second, are patterns, length and stability of courtship related to subsequent marital adjustment processes and outcomes?

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Third, are patterns of courtship related to specific dimension of marital adjustment, type of adjustment strategies used, and patterns of adjustment processes? Implications of the study for theory-building and for premarital education and counseling were discussed.

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