MARITAL INSTABILITY OVER THE LIFE COURSE

尽管婚姻不稳定在中国的人中很常见 他们的中年，我们掌握的大多数关于疾病原因的信息 离婚和永久分居是基于年轻人的经历 人。正如我们上面所展示的，有充分的理由相信 中年婚姻不稳定的原因有很大不同 比对年轻人来说更重要。使用全国已婚人士样本 我们建议找出这些差异。纵向设计将 使我们能够直接将自变量的变化联系起来，如 经济资源、妻子就业、子女的存在、婚姻 满足感、人生目标和健康对军事不稳定的影响。电池板 这项研究的设计将使我们能够将年龄和家庭生命周期分开 影响并评估拟议的临时方案的变化 变数影响婚姻的稳定性。我们对婚姻的定义是 不稳定是一个过程，它包括从 对离婚的思考和讨论，到实际申请分居 或离婚，以获得判令。研究的部分意义 基于这样一个事实，关于婚姻不稳定的原因的信息 处于人生不同阶段的人对家庭是有价值的 顾问和其他卫生保健专家，他们处理的人 婚姻可能正在步履蹒跚。这项研究的信息也将有助于 对离婚或离婚的人数做出更准确的估计 分开，这将有助于预测广泛的 卫生和人类服务的多样性。

In spite of the fact that marital instability is common among people in their mid years, most of the information we have about the causes of divorce and permanent separation is based on the experiences of young persons. As we have shown above, there is good reason to believe the causes of marital instability midway in the life course are quite different than they are for young people. Using a national sample of married persons we propose to identify those differences. A longitudinal design will enable us to directly link changes in such independent variables as economic resources, wife employment, presence of children, marital satisfaction, life goals and health to martial instability. The panel design of the study will enable us to separate age and family life cycle effects and to assess the way in which changes in the proposed casual variables influence the stability of the marriage. We define marital instability as a process that includes the full gamut of activities from thinking about divorce and discussing it, to actually filing for separation or divorce, to obtaining the decree. Part of the significance of the study rests on the fact that information on causes of marital instability for people in different stages of the life course will be of value to family counselors and other health care specialists who deal with people whose marriage may be faltering. Information from the study will also help in making more accurate estimates of the number of people who will divorce or separate which will be of assistance in anticipating needs for a wide variety of health and human services.