Exam 11: Being With Others: Forming Relationships in Young and Middle Adulthood

In Sweden, research data suggest that ____ percent of married couples opted to live together prior to marriage

Many men and women choose to delay marriage and to remain single longer so that they can focus on establishing their ________.

________ is becoming an increasingly popular lifestyle choice in the United States and in many other countries.

Estimates suggest that approximately 80% of men and 70% of women between the ages of 20 and 24 are

Grace and George are engaged to be married and are considering taking a pre-marital education program to help their chances of having a successful marriage. Based on the research presented by your authors, what would you advise them?

Why is it that many Native American parents have lost some of their traditional cultural parenting skills, where children were valued, women were considered sacred, and men cared for and provided for their families?

How has the median age of first marriage in the United States changed from 1970 to 2009?

A relative strength of online friendships involves the ability of the user to

Women tend to be ________ likely to initiate a divorce, and/but ________ likely to remarry.

Research conducted by DePaulo (2006) found that people associate the qualities "caring," "kind," and "giving" with married people approximately 50% of the time, while the same descriptors were associated with single people only about ___% of the time.

Research suggests that women tend to

Eli and Hadassah have a relationship where they both experience an intense physiological desire for each other. According to Sternberg (2006), their relationship is high in

The concept of ________ is used by some Muslim women to explain being unmarried due to the fact that they have not yet found their soul mate according to God's plan.

When they first got married, Marge and Irwin each had some individual behaviors that irritated the other. For example, Irwin would constantly leave his dirty socks on the bedroom floor, and this bothered Marge. Marge, on the other hand, always forgot to lock the front door when she came in the house. This drove Irwin up a tree! Twenty years later, however, Marge locks the door, and Irwin picks up his socks. This sort of change to accommodate a partner is called marital ________.

Research finds that people who remarry within one year after a divorce-so-called "rebound marriages"-are much more likely to go through a second divorce, in most cases within three years.

As a relationship persists over time, ________ will typically decrease while ________ will typically increase.

Research conducted by Schmidt at colleagues (2004) found that approximately 80% of the cultural groups studied demonstrated ________ romantic attachments

________ divorce is a voluntary, contractually based alternative dispute resolution process for couples who want to negotiate a resolution of their situation rather than having a ruling imposed upon them by a court or arbitrator.

Marital ________ is a subjective evaluation of a couple's relationship on a number of different dimensions.

Fatimah is a Muslim woman who lives in Malaysia. She is in her early twenties, and has not yet married. This has led to her losing status in her community. Which of the following is Fatimah likely to cite as a reason for her status as a single woman?