Impact of relationship factors on physical and psychological health and wellbeing

项目摘要 这个项目将研究求爱过程，婚姻质量和婚姻解体之间的关联， 一个在婚姻关系和行为上刚刚开始戏剧性转变的社会。本研究将集中在两个 婚姻质量方面：（1）爱和感情（2）婚姻中的分歧和批评，以及婚姻 离婚（Divorce）。故事发生在尼泊尔的乡村， 过程和关系动态，包括婚姻解体。地球仪的研究表明 婚前求爱过程的重要影响，婚姻状况，更重要的是，关系 对个人身心健康和福祉的质量。然而，很少有研究调查 在求爱过程和婚姻质量以及婚姻解体之间的联系。理论和初步证据 指出求偶过程中多个方面的变化的重要性， 个人的社区背景、家庭背景和特征、家庭和非家庭 经验，婚姻质量和婚姻解体。此外，很少有研究调查这种联系， 主要集中在西方的设置很少或没有变化的求爱过程，因为大多数求爱是 仅限于自主求偶系统。然而，负责创建这些的具体机制 链接仍然未知。我们建立在一个正在进行的研究计划，已经取得了许多 有助于我们理解社区、家庭和个人层面的各种影响， 婚姻过程和婚姻质量以及婚姻解体的因素。我们建议调查 多重求偶过程作为联系社区、家庭和个人层面因素的机制， 婚姻质量和婚姻解体。为了实现这一目标，我们将整合现有的，文化上合适的， 将求爱过程的多个维度的测量转化为婚姻质量和婚姻解体的模型 来测试这些机制。我们将使用的数据包含一个特别丰富的上下文 措施，与丈夫和妻子进行详细的个人访谈，每月记录婚姻状况 跨越22年。有了这些来自丈夫和妻子的丰富信息， 有必要显着推进科学的理解求爱过程中的作用，解释 社区背景、家庭和非家庭经历对婚姻质量和婚姻质量的影响 解散鉴于自主求爱和婚姻解体的做法正在迅速增加，在非西方 我们从这项研究中获得的见解特别重要，因为求爱过程可能 严重影响婚姻质量和婚姻解体，并最终影响家庭和儿童健康， 幸福

PROJECT SUMMARY This project will study the associations between courtship processes, marital quality, and marital dissolution in a society just beginning a dramatic transition in marital relationship and behavior. This study will focus on two aspects of marital quality: (1) love and affection (2) disagreement and criticism within marriage, and marital dissolution (separation and divorce). The setting, rural Nepal, is in the midst of transitions in both courtship process and relationship dynamics including marital dissolution. Research around the globe has demonstrated the important impact of the premarital courtship process, marital status, and more importantly, relationship quality on individual physical and psychological health and wellbeing. Yet little research investigates links between courtship processes and marital quality and marital dissolution. Both theory and preliminary evidence point toward the importance of changes in multiple dimensions of the courtship process as key links between individuals' community context, household background and characteristics, familial as well as non-family experiences, and marital quality and marital dissolution. Moreover, the scant research investigating the link is primarily focused on Western settings with little or no variation in courtship processes, as most courtships are limited to autonomous courtship systems. However, the specific mechanisms responsible for creating these links remain unknown. We build on an ongoing program of research that has already made numerous contributions to our understanding of the influence of various community-, household- and individual-level factors on both marital processes and marital quality and marital dissolution. We propose to investigate multiple courtship processes as mechanisms linking community-, household- and individual-level factors to marital quality and marital dissolution. To accomplish this, we will integrate existing, culturally appropriate measures of multiple dimensions of courtship processes into models of marital quality and marital dissolution to conduct tests of these mechanisms. The data we will use contain a particularly rich body of contextual measures, detailed personal interviews with both husbands and wives, and a monthly record of marital status spanning 22 years. With this wealth of information from and about husbands and wives, we have the measures necessary to significantly advance the scientific understanding of the role of courtship processes in explaining the effects of community context, and household and non-family experience on marital quality and marital dissolution. Given autonomous courtship practice and marital dissolution are rapidly increasing in non-Western settings, the insights we gain from this study are particularly significant because courtship processes may strongly affect marital quality and marital dissolution and ultimately influence both family and child health and wellbeing.