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The VSA Model posits that couples who have few enduring vulnerabilities, encounter few stressors, and employ effective adaptive processes are likely to experience high marital quality and stability, while couples who have many enduring vulnerabilities, encounter many stressors, and employ ineffective adaptive processes will experience declining marital quality and/or divorce.
This theory proposes that "hostile and hostile-detached couples simply fail to create a stable adaptation to marriage that is either volatile, validating, or avoiding." [15] The belief is that marital instability arises from a couples inability to accommodate one-another's preferences and create one of the three types of marriage. [15]
John Mordechai Gottman (born April 26, 1942) is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington.His research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses.
Never have I pondered the health of my marriage more than when I dive deep into the relationship research conducted by the Gottman Institute, led by Dr. John and Julie Gottman—both world ...
The Journal of Sex & Marital Therapy covers: [2] [3] Sexual dysfunctions—ranging from dyspareunia to autogynephilia to pedophilia; Therapeutic techniques—including psychopharmacology and sexual counseling for a wide range of dysfunctions; Clinical considerations—sexual dysfunction and its relationship to aging, unemployment, alcoholism ...
Financial infidelity can impact a marriage just as bad as physical infidelity, she adds. A BankRate study finds that 42% of American adults married or living with a partner have kept a financial ...
Julie Schwartz Gottman (born April 7, 1951) is an American clinical psychologist, researcher, speaker and author. Together with her husband and collaborator, John Gottman, she is the co-founder of The Gottman Institute – an organization dedicated to strengthening relationships through research-based products and programs.
Relationship maintenance (or relational maintenance) refers to a variety of behaviors exhibited by relational partners in an effort to maintain that relationship.Scholars define relational maintenance in four different ways: [1] to keep a relationship in existence, to keep a relationship in a specified state or condition, to keep a relationship in a satisfactory condition, and to keep a ...