Browsing by Subject "marriage"

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    Employment and Marriage Market Tradeoffs in an LGB Sample
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2014-04-11) Ziebarth, Doug; Stockdale, Margaret S.; Redhead, Megan; Petrovic, Milena
    Within the last few years, lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) individuals are becoming more openly present in many social spheres, including the workplace and long-term relationships. As such, social scientists can better test heteronormative assumptions about role relationships. We examined the marriage-career juxtaposition question to determine whether LGB adults view a disconnect between mate selection attractiveness and career attractiveness for LGB targets. Data were collected through snowball sampling through social media, and emailing local and national LGB organizations. A total of 355 individuals attempted our online survey with a final sample of 187 LGB adults (52% female) who provided complete, usable data. Participants rated 32 vignettes of a target gay man or lesbian woman, and rated each on how attractive they were for either a career position in health services management, systems management, or as a life-partner. Vignettes additionally varied on factors that were aligned with a career focus or family focus. Intraclass correlations (ICCs) were used to compare the mean ratings of gay or lesbian targets on these three conditions. High ICCs would indicate strong correspondence between perceptions of target individuals for career attractiveness ratings and partner attractiveness ratings, and negative ICCs would indicate juxtaposition between career and partner attractiveness ratings. The pattern of results indicated moderately positive ICCs for either type of management position and the life partner position, signifying that LGB adults did not perceive a juxtaposition in either managerial career’s attractiveness with partner attractiveness. The ICCs were stronger for gay men rating gay male targets than for lesbian target ratings; lesbian women’s ICCs were not as high or differentiated. Unlike studies of heterosexual populations, this LGB sample did not perceive a disconnect between attractiveness for a career in management versus attractiveness as a life-partner. These results call into question heteronormative assumptions about life and gender roles. Mentors: Peggy Stockdale, Department of Psychology, Purdue School of Science, IUPUI; Milena Petrovic, Department of Psychology, Purdue School of Science, IUPUI
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    Investigation of a New Couples Intervention for Individuals with Brain Injury: A Randomized Controlled Trial
    (Elsevier, 2018) Backhaus, Samantha; Neumann, Dawn; Parrott, Devan; Hammond, Flora M.; Brownson, Claire; Malec, James; Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, School of Medicine
    d to (1) examine the efficacy of a treatment to enhance a couple’s relationship after brain injury (BI) particularly in relationship satisfaction and communication; and (2) determine couples’ satisfaction with this type of intervention. Design: Randomized Wait-list Controlled (WC) Trial. Setting: Midwestern outpatient BI rehabilitation center. Intervention: The Couples CARE intervention is a 16 week, 2-hour, manualized small group treatment utilizing psychoeducation, affect recognition and empathy training, cognitive and dialectical behavioral treatments (CBT, DBT), communication skills training, and Gottman’s theoretical framework for couples. Participants: Forty-four participants (22 persons with BI and their intimate partner) were randomized by couples to the intervention or WC group, with 11 couples in each group. Main Outcome Measures: Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS); Quality of Marriage Index (QMI); 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse communication questionnaire. Measures were completed by the person with BI and their partner at 3 time points: baseline, immediate post-intervention, 3-month follow-up. Results The experimental group showed significant improvement at post-test and follow-up on the DAS and the Horsemen questionnaire compared to baseline and to the WC group which showed no significant changes on these measures. No significant effects were observed on the QMI for either group. Satisfaction scores were largely favorable. Conclusion suggest this intervention can improve couples’ dyadic adjustment and communication after BI. High satisfaction ratings suggest this small group intervention is feasible with couples following BI. Future directions for this intervention are discussed.
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    Long-term Personal Relationships and Well-being
    (Elsevier, 2018-10) Gunderman, Richard B.; Bly, Danielle A.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
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    Perceptions of Partners' Wealth and Partnership Decisions among Young Adults
    (2011-07-08) Zimmerman, Amanda Nicole; Leech, Tamara G. J.; Chumbler, Neale R.; Haas, Linda
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    A Practical Solution to the Marriage Penalty
    (2017) Ryznar, Margaret
    In the federal income tax code, there is a marriage penalty resulting from tax brackets that do not double upon marriage. This marriage penalty persists despite universal condemnation of it, penalizing a significant portion of married women who work and many same-sex couples. This Article proposes a novel way to deal with this marriage penalty by creating a filing status for dual-income couples that earn an amount within a particular percentage of each other. This filing status would be the same as the current married filing status, except it would double the rates of single filers by accommodating two incomes. This approach represents a break from the status quo of only separating single taxpayers from married ones, which fails to consider that in reality there are two types of married couples: one- and two-income. This proposed solution differs from previous ones that require married couples to file as single individuals and that ignore marital status. Adding another filing status for two-income married couples is a practical solution to the marriage penalty that causes the least upheaval to the general legal framework because it continues to treat spouses as a single economic unit.
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    The Straw that Broke the Camel's Back? A Sociological Analysis of Marriage and Law School
    (2007-06-04T20:26:35Z) McQuillan, Deanna Boyd; Foote-Ardah, Carrie Elizabeth; Haas, Linda; Howard, Jay
    This Master's thesis is based on a qualitative study which aimed to understand the perspectives of married male and female law students and the ways in which they managed the interaction between law school and family life. The data was gathered from in-depth interviews with 23 married law students at an urban university. The spillover model was used to address both how being married impacts students' school experiences, as well as to look at how the law school experience influences students' families. In an analysis of marriage-to-school spillover, the married law students reported feeling that they were having a non-normative law school experience as a result of their marital and parenthood statuses and they often compared their experiences to that of an "unmarried other" group of more traditional students. In an analysis of school-to-marriage spillover, students reported various types of strains that resulted from missing out on parts of a perceived normal married life as a result of the demands of law school. Several key differences were noted between the ways male and female students handled the often competing demands of marriage, children, and law school. The implications for the families as well as for legal education are discussed.
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    Transitioning to Adulthood: An Annotated Bibliography of the PSID-TA Publications
    (Indiana University Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, 2020-01) Herzog, Patricia Snell; Bopp, Monica; Watson, Bethany; Hall, Jessica; Sanburn, Karen; Hillier-Geisler, Megan; Fegley, Bryan; Pockette, Chris; Clark, Donna; Albritton, Brenna; Gates, Niki; Klink, Kendra; Brown, Sydney; Wang, Yujue
    This report provides an annotated bibliography of all 100 publications published to date on the Transition to Adulthood Supplement (TAS) of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). Of these publications, 79 are articles in peer-reviewed journals, 6 are book chapters, and 15 are doctoral student dissertations. In terms of topic area, 40 publications focus on the impact of economics and socioeconomic status, another 18 study the effect of childhood and youth savings accounts, 41 study educational attainment and college-level outcomes, 32 study health and wellbeing, 20 investigate marriage and family dynamics, 31 explicitly attend to race and ethnicity, 10 study work and occupations, 7 neighborhood effects, 7 social capital and trust, 3 criminal activity, and 5 explicitly engage technology (note: since publications often engage multiple topics, these categories are not mutually-exclusive).