Joseph Veroff
Biographic Data
| ID | 92139 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joseph Veroff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joseph |
| FAMILY NAME | Veroff |
| SIGNATURE | VEROFF J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 524 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1953 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
A Programmatic Review
We summarize our programmatic efforts to make use of several critical processes advanced by social psychological theorists that have direct relevance to the study of marriage. We show how these processes have been useful in our Early Years of Marriage Project, a longitudinal study of marital phenomena among black couples and white couples, and in other similar longitudinal marital studies. We also argue that, in such marital research, we can unde…
Who will Divorce
The present study examines the early development of marriage for a representative sample of urban white couples and black couples. We are interested in predicting the stability of these marriages over the first 14 years of marriage. First, we assess whether objective social and economic conditions account for divorce over time. These factors focus on oppressive social conditions, lower status positions in society, and challenges of parenthood and…
Family Ties and the Discontinuity of Divorce in Black and White Newlywed Couples
This paper explores the relationship of family ties to the marital happiness of husbands and wives from intact and disrupted families of origin and to the likelihood that they will divorce by the 4th year of their marriage. Respondents were 199 Black and 173 White couples interviewed as part of the "Early Years of Marriage" study. Analyses showed differences in family connectedness according to whether the family of origin was disrupted, and some…
Newlywed's Narrative Themes
This study addresses the meaning of marriage in the first year through themes in joint narratives told by 343 African American and White urban newlyweds in first marriages. Controlling for spouses' education, household income, years lived together prior to marriage, premarital parental status, and length of narrative in logistic regression analysis, the authors found no significant differences between African American and White newlyweds on child…
Obituary
Roger Williams Heyns (1918–1995)
The Changing Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Marital Well-Being among Black and White Couples
This study is the longitudinal extension of an earlier study of perceptions of conflict in the first year of marriage (Acitelli et al., 1993). In both studies, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners' similarity and understanding of conflict styles. While the earlier study related perceptions of conflict in the first year with first year marital well-being, the present study related the same first year perceptions …
For Better or for Worse
This study examined the relationship between an individual's real-ideal discrepancy about the spouse and the marital well-being of both spouses. In the first year of the study, individuals from 153 African-American couples and 160 White couples rated their partners and their ideals for their partners on 12 characteristics. Discrepancies between ratings of the partner and ideals for the partner were negatively correlated with the Year 1 marital we…
Marital Instability
Family Ties and Marital Happiness
This paper explores the relationship of family ties to black and white couples' marital happiness over the first 3 years of their marriages. Respondents were 115 black and 136 white couples interviewed as part of the Early Years of Marriage study. Although there were many similarities in the way blacks and whites felt about and interacted with their families, black couples were less likely to argue over matters pertaining to family, visited their…
Marital Instability
Preface Introduction Premarital Factors in Marital Instability The First Year of Marriage: Interpersonal Attitudes, Perceptions, and Interactions The First Year of Marriage: External Factors The First Year of Marriage: Intergrative Marital Feelings The Second Year of Marriage: Stressors, Interference, and Integrative Feelings The Third Year of Marriage The Fourth Year of Marriage A Summing Up: Major Factors Affecting Instability Across the First …
Motivation and Personality
Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Well-Being in the First Years of Marriage
We consider the importance of sexual satisfaction in the first years of marriage. First, we examine how husbands' and wives' feelings of affirmation and tension in their marriage relate to levels of sexual satisfaction. Further, we explore the relationship between sexual satisfaction and four dimensions of marital well-being: competence, control, equity and happiness. Data from a longitudinal study of black and white couples were analysed separat…
Affects and Interactions in Newlyweds' Narratives
Two main questions guided this research: (a) How do newlyweds' affective statements and interactive styles found in narratives told about their relation-ship help us understand the meaning they make of their marriages? (b) How does analysis of the affective statements and interactive styles of Black couples (n = 136) in comparison to White couples (n = 135) help us understand the differential meaning in these groups? The representative sample was…
Race and gender differences in black and white newlyweds’ perceptions of sexual and marital relations
A representative sample of 199 Black and 174 White urban newlywed couples completed questionnaire items about their marital and sexual relations. In principal components analyses of these reports, care and positive relations in the marriage were associated with perceptions of sexual enjoyment in the marriage for women more than men, although these perceptions were also associated for men. Reports of sexual upset were associated with reports of ir…
Perceptions of marital interaction among Black and White newlyweds
Newlyweds Tell their Stories
This article describes three coding systems used to analyze systematically joint narratives told by 344 black and white newlywed couples about the `story of their relationship', as part of a program of study of the early years of marriage. The first coding system of these accounts captures the affects mentioned in the stories; the second assesses husband-wife interactions in telling the stories; and the third identifies styles and themes characte…
Perceptions of Conflict in the First Year of Marriage
Perceptions of self and spouse play a central role in marital relationships. Using data from 219 newlywed couples, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners' similarity and understanding of conflict styles. These data include reports of behaviors of the self and spouse during their most recent disagreement. Behaviors were categorized as either constructive or destructive to resolving the conflict, and data from each …
Predicting Marital Quality with Narrative Assessments of Marital Experience
Etude sur le mariage et la qualite des relations conjugales a partir de l'analyse longitudinale des premieres annees de mariage des couples. L'etude montre que la facon dont les couples construisent leur realite maritale prefigure leur bien-etre marital. Quatre hypotheses sont ainsi testees et discutees
Becoming a Married Couple
Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff, Diane Holmberg, Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 815-826
Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage
Journal Article CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICIPATING IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MARRIAGE Get access JOSEPH VEROFF, JOSEPH VEROFF JOSEPH VEROFF is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, SHIRLEY HATCHETT is associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois. ELIZABETH DOUVAN is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. The research reported in this article was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Men…
Dimensions of Marital Well-Being among White and Black Newlyweds
Motives in American men and women across the adult life span
Assessing the validity of the achievement motive in the presence of random measurement error
The presence of random measurement error in indicators of theoretical constructs biases observed estimates of relations among those constructs. Correcting for this bias is particularly important when random measurement error is substantial, or is substantially different for indicators of distinct constructs included in a theoretical model. Validity assessment in the case of thematic apperceptive measures of the achievement motive (TAT n Achieveme…
Dimensions of Subjective Mental Health in American Men and Women
Confirmatory factor analyses were used to map dimensions of subjective mental health underlying 25 indexes of well-being and distress assessed in a 1976 national representative survey of adults. Partially confirming hypotheses, six dominant factors (Unhappiness, Lack of Gratification, Strain, Feelings of Vulnerability, Lack of Self-Confidence, and Uncertainty) emergedfor both men and women. Comparative analyses revealed that the six-factor model …
Perceptions of Conflict in the First Year of Marriage
Perceptions of self and spouse play a central role in marital relationships. Using data from 219 newlywed couples, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners' similarity and understanding of conflict styles. These data include reports of behaviors of the self and spouse during their most recent disagreement. Behaviors were categorized as either constructive or destructive to resolving the conflict, and data from each …
Sexual Satisfaction and Marital Well-Being in the First Years of Marriage
We consider the importance of sexual satisfaction in the first years of marriage. First, we examine how husbands' and wives' feelings of affirmation and tension in their marriage relate to levels of sexual satisfaction. Further, we explore the relationship between sexual satisfaction and four dimensions of marital well-being: competence, control, equity and happiness. Data from a longitudinal study of black and white couples were analysed separat…
Who will Divorce
The present study examines the early development of marriage for a representative sample of urban white couples and black couples. We are interested in predicting the stability of these marriages over the first 14 years of marriage. First, we assess whether objective social and economic conditions account for divorce over time. These factors focus on oppressive social conditions, lower status positions in society, and challenges of parenthood and…
Newlyweds Tell their Stories
This article describes three coding systems used to analyze systematically joint narratives told by 344 black and white newlywed couples about the `story of their relationship', as part of a program of study of the early years of marriage. The first coding system of these accounts captures the affects mentioned in the stories; the second assesses husband-wife interactions in telling the stories; and the third identifies styles and themes characte…
Dimensions of Marital Well-Being among White and Black Newlyweds
Becoming a Married Couple
Terri L. Orbuch, Joseph Veroff, Diane Holmberg, Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 55, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 815-826
The structure of psychological well-being
This study used confirmatory factor analysis to explore dimensions of self-evaluations with data collected from two nationwide representative-sample, crosssectional surveys of U.S. adults—one conducted in 1957, the other in 1976. Eighteen indexes of well-being were constructed from items common to both surveys, which assessed feelings of well-being, self-perceptions, symptoms of distress, and various aspects of adjustment in marriage, parenthood,…
Social Class and the Use of Professional Help for Personal Problems
Richard A. Kulka, Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan, Social Class and the Use of Professional Help for Personal Problems: 1957 and 1976, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 2-17
Perceptions of marital interaction among Black and White newlyweds
Family Ties and the Discontinuity of Divorce in Black and White Newlywed Couples
This paper explores the relationship of family ties to the marital happiness of husbands and wives from intact and disrupted families of origin and to the likelihood that they will divorce by the 4th year of their marriage. Respondents were 199 Black and 173 White couples interviewed as part of the "Early Years of Marriage" study. Analyses showed differences in family connectedness according to whether the family of origin was disrupted, and some…
Consequences of Participating in a Longitudinal Study of Marriage
Journal Article CONSEQUENCES OF PARTICIPATING IN A LONGITUDINAL STUDY OF MARRIAGE Get access JOSEPH VEROFF, JOSEPH VEROFF JOSEPH VEROFF is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, SHIRLEY HATCHETT is associate professor of sociology at the University of Illinois. ELIZABETH DOUVAN is professor of psychology at the University of Michigan. The research reported in this article was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Men…
For Better or for Worse
This study examined the relationship between an individual's real-ideal discrepancy about the spouse and the marital well-being of both spouses. In the first year of the study, individuals from 153 African-American couples and 160 White couples rated their partners and their ideals for their partners on 12 characteristics. Discrepancies between ratings of the partner and ideals for the partner were negatively correlated with the Year 1 marital we…
Motives in American men and women across the adult life span
Predicting Marital Quality with Narrative Assessments of Marital Experience
Etude sur le mariage et la qualite des relations conjugales a partir de l'analyse longitudinale des premieres annees de mariage des couples. L'etude montre que la facon dont les couples construisent leur realite maritale prefigure leur bien-etre marital. Quatre hypotheses sont ainsi testees et discutees
Dimensions of Subjective Mental Health in American Men and Women
Confirmatory factor analyses were used to map dimensions of subjective mental health underlying 25 indexes of well-being and distress assessed in a 1976 national representative survey of adults. Partially confirming hypotheses, six dominant factors (Unhappiness, Lack of Gratification, Strain, Feelings of Vulnerability, Lack of Self-Confidence, and Uncertainty) emergedfor both men and women. Comparative analyses revealed that the six-factor model …
Marriage and Work in America
Americans View Their Mental Health
Race and gender differences in black and white newlyweds’ perceptions of sexual and marital relations
A representative sample of 199 Black and 174 White urban newlywed couples completed questionnaire items about their marital and sexual relations. In principal components analyses of these reports, care and positive relations in the marriage were associated with perceptions of sexual enjoyment in the marriage for women more than men, although these perceptions were also associated for men. Reports of sexual upset were associated with reports of ir…
Process vs. Impact in Men's and Women's Achievement Motivation
The author presents a new taxonomy of six achievement motivation types, with the categories based on an interaction between two factors: (a) whether the individual emphasizes the process of achieving or the impact of the accomplishment itself; and (b) whether the person derives his standards of excellence from within himself, from some social reference, or from an impersonal task demand. The hypothesis is proposed that females in American society…
Achievement Motivation and Religious Background
High achievement motivation scores derived from thematic apperceptive measures administered in a nationwide sample survey were most prevalent in Jewish men, and more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant men. This high incidence among Catholic men was found attributable largely to the middle-aged group. Furthermore, Catholics' achievement motivation, unlike Protestants' was associated with a low income and a large family. This difference is in…
Motivation and Personality
Marriage and Work in America. A Study of Motives and Roles
Newlywed's Narrative Themes
This study addresses the meaning of marriage in the first year through themes in joint narratives told by 343 African American and White urban newlyweds in first marriages. Controlling for spouses' education, household income, years lived together prior to marriage, premarital parental status, and length of narrative in logistic regression analysis, the authors found no significant differences between African American and White newlyweds on child…
The Changing Influence of Interpersonal Perceptions on Marital Well-Being among Black and White Couples
This study is the longitudinal extension of an earlier study of perceptions of conflict in the first year of marriage (Acitelli et al., 1993). In both studies, we examined the relative importance (to marital well-being) of partners' similarity and understanding of conflict styles. While the earlier study related perceptions of conflict in the first year with first year marital well-being, the present study related the same first year perceptions …
Family Ties and Marital Happiness
This paper explores the relationship of family ties to black and white couples' marital happiness over the first 3 years of their marriages. Respondents were 115 black and 136 white couples interviewed as part of the Early Years of Marriage study. Although there were many similarities in the way blacks and whites felt about and interacted with their families, black couples were less likely to argue over matters pertaining to family, visited their…
The achievement motive in high school and college age women
The effect of experimental arousal of the affiliation motive on thematic apperception
Development and validation of a projective measure of power motivation
Americans View Their Mental Health
Americans View Their Mental Health
Achievement Motivation and Religious Background
High achievement motivation scores derived from thematic apperceptive measures administered in a nationwide sample survey were most prevalent in Jewish men, and more prevalent in Catholic than in Protestant men. This high incidence among Catholic men was found attributable largely to the middle-aged group. Furthermore, Catholics' achievement motivation, unlike Protestants' was associated with a low income and a large family. This difference is in…
Dimensions of subjective adjustment
African Students in the United States
Explorations into the effects of picture cues on thematic apperceptive expression of achievement motivation
Initial Effects of Desegregation on the Achievement Motivation of Negro Elementary School Children
Marriage and Work in America
Reconsideration of a measure of power motivation
Marriage and Work in America. A Study of Motives and Roles
Incidental learning in adults of different social backgrounds
Process vs. Impact in Men's and Women's Achievement Motivation
The author presents a new taxonomy of six achievement motivation types, with the categories based on an interaction between two factors: (a) whether the individual emphasizes the process of achieving or the impact of the accomplishment itself; and (b) whether the person derives his standards of excellence from within himself, from some social reference, or from an impersonal task demand. The hypothesis is proposed that females in American society…
Social Motivation
Social Class and the Use of Professional Help for Personal Problems
Richard A. Kulka, Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan, Social Class and the Use of Professional Help for Personal Problems: 1957 and 1976, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 20, No. 1 (Mar., 1979), pp. 2-17
Comparison of American motives
The structure of psychological well-being
This study used confirmatory factor analysis to explore dimensions of self-evaluations with data collected from two nationwide representative-sample, crosssectional surveys of U.S. adults—one conducted in 1957, the other in 1976. Eighteen indexes of well-being were constructed from items common to both surveys, which assessed feelings of well-being, self-perceptions, symptoms of distress, and various aspects of adjustment in marriage, parenthood,…
The Inner American
The Inner American: A Self-Portrait from 1957 to 1976, by Joseph Veroff, Elizabeth Douvan and Richard A. Kulka and Mental Health in America: Patterns of Help-seeking from 1957 to 1976, by Joseph Veroff, Richard A. Kulka and Elizabeth Douvan Get access Paul Anthony Schwartz Paul Anthony Schwartz Graduate Theological Union Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Sociology of Religion, Volume 43, Issue 2, Summer 1982…
The Inner American
Motives in American men and women across the adult life span
Assessing the validity of the achievement motive in the presence of random measurement error
The presence of random measurement error in indicators of theoretical constructs biases observed estimates of relations among those constructs. Correcting for this bias is particularly important when random measurement error is substantial, or is substantially different for indicators of distinct constructs included in a theoretical model. Validity assessment in the case of thematic apperceptive measures of the achievement motive (TAT n Achieveme…
Dimensions of Subjective Mental Health in American Men and Women
Confirmatory factor analyses were used to map dimensions of subjective mental health underlying 25 indexes of well-being and distress assessed in a 1976 national representative survey of adults. Partially confirming hypotheses, six dominant factors (Unhappiness, Lack of Gratification, Strain, Feelings of Vulnerability, Lack of Self-Confidence, and Uncertainty) emergedfor both men and women. Comparative analyses revealed that the six-factor model …
Dimensions of Marital Well-Being among White and Black Newlyweds
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