Not Shifting but Broadening Marital Research

Comments on Fincham, Stanley, and Beach

Benjamin R. Karney

ResearchPosted on rand.org 2007Published in: Journal of Marriage and Family, v. 69, no. 2, May 2007, p. 310-314

The author comments on Fincham, F. D., Stanley, S. M., & Beach, S. R. H. (2007). Transformative processes in marriage: An analysis of emerging trends. Journal of Marriage and Family, 69, 275 - 292. In this article he outlines the alternative perspective that a more refined understanding of how marriages succeed or fail is likely to derive from (a) a clearer understanding of the elements marital research has already been studying, (b) an explicit statement of the problem that marital research is meant to solve, and (c) a broadening the scope of marital research to acknowledge the interactions between marriages and the contexts in which they form and develop over time.

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  • Copyright: Blackwell Publishing
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 2007
  • Pages: 5
  • Document Number: EP-200705-06

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