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Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: An Examination of Recent Marriages
Journal of marriage and family, v 74(2), pp 377-387
Apr 2012
PMCID: PMC3487709
PMID: 23129875
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Abstract
An ongoing question remains for family researchers: Why does a positive association between cohabitation and marital dissolution exist when one of the primary reasons to cohabit is to test relationship compatibility? Drawing on recently collected data from the 20062008 National Survey of Family Growth, the authors examined whether premarital cohabitation experiences were associated with marital instability among a recent contemporary (married since 1996) marriage cohort of men (N = 1,483) and women (N = 2,003). They found that a dichotomous indicator of premarital cohabitation was in fact not associated with marital instability among women and men. Furthermore, among cohabitors, marital commitment prior to cohabitation (engagement or definite plans for marriage) was tied to lower hazards of marital instability among women, but not men. This research contributes to our understanding of cohabitation, marital instability, and broader family change.
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- Title
- Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: An Examination of Recent Marriages
- Creators
- Wendy D. Manning - Bowling Green State UniversityJessica A. Cohen - St Marys Univ, Dept Sociol, San Antonio, TX 78228 USA
- Publication Details
- Journal of marriage and family, v 74(2), pp 377-387
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 11
- Grant note
- R24 HD050959 / NICHD NIH HHS; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD) R24HD050959 / EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT; United States Department of Health & Human Services; National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA; NIH Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development (NICHD)
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Sociology
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000301648100011
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84858632370
- Other Identifier
- 991021862380804721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Family Studies
- Sociology