Marital Quality and Personal Well‐Being: A Meta‐Analysis

By C. Proulx, Heather M. Helms, C. Buehler. 2007

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Subfields: Demography, Social Psychology

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Toward a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Friendship and Happiness: Perceived Responses to Capitalization Attempts, Feelings of Mattering, and Satisfaction of Basic Psychological Needs in Same-Sex Best Friendships as Predictors of Happiness (2012, background): “It could be that gender differences in the relationship quality and well-being link is observed when the focus is on dating and marital relationships (e.g., Pinquart and Sörensen 2000; Proulx et al. 2007).”
Partner phubbing and depression among married Chinese adults: The roles of relationship satisfaction and relationship length (2017, background): “Another meta-analysis shows that the longitudinal association between marital quality and personal well-being including life satisfaction and depression was stronger, when personal wellbeing rather than marital quality was treated as the dependent variable (Proulx et al., 2007).”
My life has become a major distraction from my cell phone: Partner phubbing and relationship satisfaction among romantic partners (2016, result): “satisfaction negatively impacted life satisfaction and depression consistent with research in the marital satisfaction literature (Papp et al., 2004; Proulx et al., 2007; Whisman, 2001).”
Does Spirituality or Religion Positively Affect Mental Health? Meta-analysis of Longitudinal Studies (2020, methodology): “The effect size for the association between marital quality and well-being was r = .25 in a meta-analysis of 27 studies (Proulx, Helms, & Buehler, 2007).”
The epidemiology of depression across cultures (2013, background): “Longitudinal studies show that the association is bidirectional (75, 139), but with a stronger time-lagged association of marital discord predicting depressive symptoms than vice versa (103).”
Marital quality and health: A meta-analytic review (2013, background): “…health-related quality-of-life and various indices of mental well-being and adjustment), which was covered in a previous meta-analytic reviews (Proulx et al., 2007); (3) examined marital quality as a dependent 3 Our stringent inclusion and exclusion criteria led to excluding studies that were…”
Gender Differences in Marital and Life Satisfaction among Chinese Malaysians (2009, background): “This finding corroborates existing literature ( Proulx et al. 2007 ).”