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  • 17 - Risk Factors, Risk Processes, and the Longitudinal Course of Newlywed Marriage

  • Edited by Patricia Noller, University of Queensland, Judith A. Feeney, University of Queensland
  • Book:
    Understanding Marriage
    Published online:
    25 July 2009
    Print publication:
    26 September 2002, pp 468-492

  • Summary

    After all, the rosy love-making and marrying and Epithalamy are no more than the dawn of things, and to follow comes all the spacious interval of white laborious light. Try as we may to stay those delightful moments they fade and pass remorselessly … We go on we grow. At least we age. Our young couple, emerging presently from an atmosphere of dusk and morning stars, found the sky gathering grayly overhead and saw one another for the first time clearly in the light of every day.

    —H. G. Wells, Love and Mr. Lewisham, 1900

    The heavy emphasis on dyadic process that typified marital research in the past is giving way to studies that examine marital interaction in relation to characteristics of individual spouses. Promising findings are emerging, for example, in studies linking marital processes to attachment (for example, Carnelley, Pietromonaco, & Jaffe, 1996 Collins & Feeney, 2000), personality (for example, Karney & Bradbury, 1997), and divorce in spouses' families of origin (for example, Amato, 1996). However, the interaction between the various intrapersonal and interpersonal factors relevant to marriage is complex, and the specific pathways leading to marital dysfunction remain unclear. In this chapter, we discuss the ways in which an applied emphasis may help to sharpen this focus, and we examine the implications of premarital interventions for basic research.