Terri L Orbuch
Biographic Data
| ID | 109762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Terri L Orbuch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Terri L |
| FAMILY NAME | Orbuch |
| SIGNATURE | ORBUCH T L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0236-0483 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 516 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Effects of spousal, friend, and family relationships on marital instability across the first 16 years of marriage
We applied marital stress and stability frameworks to investigate how spousal, family, and friend dynamics contribute to marital instability risks during the first 16 years of marriage. Using longitudinal data from the Early Years of Marriage Project and a within-person approach, we examined how family and friend relationships temper or amplify marital risks in couples’ more troublesome years. We also considered the sociocultural contexts of gend…
Sexual Expression and Subsequent Marital Quality Among Partnered Older Adults
Taking stock of the longitudinal study of romantic couple relationships: The last 20 years
Longitudinal dyadic research provides significant benefits for our understanding of romantic couple relationships. In this systematic review, we begin by providing a broad overview of topical trends and approaches in longitudinal couple relationships research from 2002 through 2021. Then, we narrow our review to dyadic relationship quality articles, highlighting key themes as well as noting important gaps in the research. Using an intersectional …
A multidimensional examination of marital conflict and subjective health over 16 years
Guided by stress process perspectives, this study conceptualizes marital conflict as a multidimensional stressor to assess how three aspects of conflict—frequency of disagreements, breadth of disagreements, and cumulative disagreements—impact subjective health. Longitudinal data of married couples spanning 16 years ( n = 373 couples) were analyzed using multilevel modeling. For husbands, more frequent disagreements than usual within a given year …
I Love You, Not Your Friends: Links between partners’ early disapproval of friends and divorce across 16 years
The purpose of the present study was to examine both positive (i.e., shared friend support) and negative (i.e., disapproval and interference of partner's friends) aspects of friend ties on divorce across 16 years. Using a sample of 355 Black and White couples from the Early Years of Marriage project, we examined these associations with a Cox proportional hazard regression, controlling for a number of demographic and relational factors. Our findin…
Divorced Yet Still Together: Ongoing Personal Relationship and Coparenting Among Divorced Parents
This study examined the ongoing personal and emotional involvement between former spouses and its association with perceptions of the quality of the coparenting relationship. Dyadic analysis of 54 formerly married couples revealed that both men and women rate their coparenting relationship as better when they also report ongoing personal and emotional involvement with their former spouse. Furthermore, when men reported ongoing involvement, their …
The development of marital tension: Implications for divorce among married couples
Marriages are often characterized by their positive and negative features in terms of whether they elicit feelings of satisfaction and happiness or conflict and negativity. Although research has examined the development of marital happiness, less is known about the development of negativity among married couples. We examined how marital tension (i.e., feelings of tension, resentment, irritation) develops within couples over time and whether marit…
Social Network Typologies of Black and White Married Couples in Midlife
Although research shows that conjoint social networks are associated with well-being among newlyweds, little is known about how these network types are linked to marital quality and psychological well-being for long-term married couples and about potential race differences in their configurations and associations. Using a pattern-centered approach to examine the social networks of 91 White and 62 Black couples in their 16th year of marriage, this…
Interpersonal Relationships
In any relationship, two participants are interdependent, where the behavior of each affects the outcomes of the other. Most of the research on interpersonal relationships has focused on relationships that are close, intimate, and have high interdependence. In the 1960s the initial focus of research was on the interpersonal attraction process, primarily between strangers meeting for the first time. More recently, relationships have received consi…
Who Does the Work? Partner Perceptions of the Initiation and Maintenance of Romantic Relationships
The contributions and effort that partners perceive each other to have made to the initiation and maintenance of their relationship may have significant individual and interpersonal consequences. Yet relatively little empirical research has explored such perceptions. The primary goal of the present investigation was to examine how both members of a sample of heterosexual romantic couples (N = 96 couples) perceived the balance of work in regard to…
Marital Well-Being Over Time Among Black and White Americans: The First Seven Years
Marital Conflict Behaviors and Implications for Divorce Over 16 Years
This study examined self-reported marital conflict behaviors and their implications for divorce. Husbands and wives (N = 373 couples; 47% White American, 53% Black American) reported conflict behaviors in Years 1, 3, 7, and 16 of their marriages. Individual behaviors (e.g., destructive behaviors) and patterns of behaviors between partners (e.g., withdrawal-constructive) in Year 1 predicted higher divorce rates. Wives' destructive and withdrawal b…
Interpersonal Relationships
In any relationship, two participants are interdependent, where the behavior of each affects the outcomes of the other. Additionally, the individuals interact with each other in a series of interactions that are interrelated and affect each other. Individuals form many different kinds of relationships with other people, some of which are intimate and close (e.g., parent–child, spouse–spouse, friendships) and others which are not intimate and clos…
The Context of Race/Ethnicity in Interpersonal Relationships: Crossing the Chasm
A Programmatic Review: Building a Two-Way Bridge between Social Psychology and the Study of the Early Years of Marriage
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: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study of Black Couples and White Couples
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…
The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children
This paper examines data from a panel study on the long-term effects of parental marital quality and divorce on relationships between parents and adult children. Attention is focused on whether these effects vary by age and gender of child as well as the theoretical explanations linking mother-father and parent-child relations. The relational quality between adult children (18-31 years old) and both mothers and fathers is examined from the perspe…
Division of Household Labor among Black Couples and White Couples
Research consistently documents that women do most of the housework and childcare within the family, but the explanation for gender inequity within the home is not well understood. One explanation focuses on the distribution of structural resources by gender, which in turn influences the division of household labor. Another concentrates on cultural expectations about gendered responsibilities in the home. We argue that an adequate explanation mus…
People's Accounts Count: The Sociology of Accounts
Humans are inexorably driven to search for order and meaning in their own and others' lives; accounts are a major avenue for sociologists to depict and understand the ways in which individuals experience and identify with that meaning and their social world. The accounts concept has a solid foundation and history in early sociological analysis and research. The current work on accounts focuses on 'story-like' interpretations or explanations and t…
Marital Quality Over the Life Course
Much prior research in social psychology indicates that in many domains of social life, individuals' well-being improves in the latter half of the life course. The reason for this pattern is not well understood, however. We argue that objective changes in family composition and in social and economic conditions in middle and later life may explain the later-life increase in well-being. To test this argument we focus on one domain, marital well-be…
The Social Context of Married Women's Work and Its Impact on Black Husbands and White Husbands
Married women's increasing labor force participation has received much research attention (Fendrich, 1984; Gutek, Stromberg, & Larwood, 1988; Hochschild, 1989; Kessler & McRae, 1982; Rosenfield, 1992). Although research has demonstrated that married women's employment outside the home can have positive physical and mental effects on wives (Burke & Weir, 1976; Kessler & McRae, 1982), there is still the sense that these benefits may come at the exp…
Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood
This article uses a panel study of children and mothers to examine how parents and children conceptualize, perceive, and report on their relationships with each other during the children's transition to adulthood years. The article provides strong support for the reliability and validity of reports of parent-child relationships. The article documents generally positive and supportive relationships between parents and children, more positive relat…
Effects of Childhood Family Background on Adult Marital Quality and Perceived Stability
The authors examine the effect of various single-parent childhood family structures on adult marital quality and perceived stability. The authors find no important differences in marital happiness by family history. However, among adults in less than very happy marriages, both adult children of divorce and adults who never lived with their father report significantly higher chances of divorce than those from two-parent families. Among those in re…
Account-making and confiding as acts of meaning in response to sexual assault
Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage
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
People's Accounts Count: The Sociology of Accounts
Humans are inexorably driven to search for order and meaning in their own and others' lives; accounts are a major avenue for sociologists to depict and understand the ways in which individuals experience and identify with that meaning and their social world. The accounts concept has a solid foundation and history in early sociological analysis and research. The current work on accounts focuses on 'story-like' interpretations or explanations and t…
Who will Divorce: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study of Black Couples and White Couples
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…
Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood
This article uses a panel study of children and mothers to examine how parents and children conceptualize, perceive, and report on their relationships with each other during the children's transition to adulthood years. The article provides strong support for the reliability and validity of reports of parent-child relationships. The article documents generally positive and supportive relationships between parents and children, more positive relat…
The effect of current sexual behavior on friendship, dating, and marriage desirability
The purpose of this research was to extend previous studies examining the influence of a person's sexual behavior on others' perceptions of his/ her relationship desirability. Over 750 students from three universities judged the friendship, dating, and marriage desirability of a person based on information ostensibly provided by him/her about current sexual activity. Overall, the results indicated that a target person portrayed as engaging in low…
Marital Quality Over the Life Course
Much prior research in social psychology indicates that in many domains of social life, individuals' well-being improves in the latter half of the life course. The reason for this pattern is not well understood, however. We argue that objective changes in family composition and in social and economic conditions in middle and later life may explain the later-life increase in well-being. To test this argument we focus on one domain, marital well-be…
Effects of Childhood Family Background on Adult Marital Quality and Perceived Stability
The authors examine the effect of various single-parent childhood family structures on adult marital quality and perceived stability. The authors find no important differences in marital happiness by family history. However, among adults in less than very happy marriages, both adult children of divorce and adults who never lived with their father report significantly higher chances of divorce than those from two-parent families. Among those in re…
Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage
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 Social Context of Married Women's Work and Its Impact on Black Husbands and White Husbands
Married women's increasing labor force participation has received much research attention (Fendrich, 1984; Gutek, Stromberg, & Larwood, 1988; Hochschild, 1989; Kessler & McRae, 1982; Rosenfield, 1992). Although research has demonstrated that married women's employment outside the home can have positive physical and mental effects on wives (Burke & Weir, 1976; Kessler & McRae, 1982), there is still the sense that these benefits may come at the exp…
Division of Household Labor among Black Couples and White Couples
Research consistently documents that women do most of the housework and childcare within the family, but the explanation for gender inequity within the home is not well understood. One explanation focuses on the distribution of structural resources by gender, which in turn influences the division of household labor. Another concentrates on cultural expectations about gendered responsibilities in the home. We argue that an adequate explanation mus…
Marital Conflict Behaviors and Implications for Divorce Over 16 Years
This study examined self-reported marital conflict behaviors and their implications for divorce. Husbands and wives (N = 373 couples; 47% White American, 53% Black American) reported conflict behaviors in Years 1, 3, 7, and 16 of their marriages. Individual behaviors (e.g., destructive behaviors) and patterns of behaviors between partners (e.g., withdrawal-constructive) in Year 1 predicted higher divorce rates. Wives' destructive and withdrawal b…
I Love You, Not Your Friends: Links between partners’ early disapproval of friends and divorce across 16 years
The purpose of the present study was to examine both positive (i.e., shared friend support) and negative (i.e., disapproval and interference of partner's friends) aspects of friend ties on divorce across 16 years. Using a sample of 355 Black and White couples from the Early Years of Marriage project, we examined these associations with a Cox proportional hazard regression, controlling for a number of demographic and relational factors. Our findin…
Has the Double Standard Disappeared: An Experimental Test
Experimentation portant sur les effets eventuels de l'existence d'une double norme, sur les jugements portes sur autrui se fondant sur des informations a propos de la vie sexuelle des personnes visees
The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children
This paper examines data from a panel study on the long-term effects of parental marital quality and divorce on relationships between parents and adult children. Attention is focused on whether these effects vary by age and gender of child as well as the theoretical explanations linking mother-father and parent-child relations. The relational quality between adult children (18-31 years old) and both mothers and fathers is examined from the perspe…
Account-making and confiding as acts of meaning in response to sexual assault
The development of marital tension: Implications for divorce among married couples
Marriages are often characterized by their positive and negative features in terms of whether they elicit feelings of satisfaction and happiness or conflict and negativity. Although research has examined the development of marital happiness, less is known about the development of negativity among married couples. We examined how marital tension (i.e., feelings of tension, resentment, irritation) develops within couples over time and whether marit…
Introduction to Sociology
Social Network Typologies of Black and White Married Couples in Midlife
Although research shows that conjoint social networks are associated with well-being among newlyweds, little is known about how these network types are linked to marital quality and psychological well-being for long-term married couples and about potential race differences in their configurations and associations. Using a pattern-centered approach to examine the social networks of 91 White and 62 Black couples in their 16th year of marriage, this…
The Context of Race/Ethnicity in Interpersonal Relationships: Crossing the Chasm
House of pain and hope: Accounts of loss
We are grateful to Robert Neimeyer, Mary Passmore, Phil Shaver, and Susan Veach for perceptive comments on a draft of this article. The article is based on a talk given by the first author at the Third Meeting of the International Network on Personal Relationships, Normal, Illinois, May 1991. Thanks are extended to Drs. Sue Sprecher, Sandra Metts, and Bill Cupach for making this presentation possible and to the participants in the studies describ…
A Social Psychological Model of Account-Making in Response to Severe Stress
This paper extends recent theorising on the psychology of accounts and account-making. It is argued that while work on this topic in the area of close relationships and reactions to stress is increasing, as yet too little explicit theoretical analysis and hypothesis postulation have been presented. The present statement amplifies further on the nature of the account-making process and articulates an hypothesised role of this process in people's r…
A Programmatic Review: Building a Two-Way Bridge between Social Psychology and the Study of the Early Years of Marriage
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…
Marital Well-Being Over Time Among Black and White Americans: The First Seven Years
Has the Double Standard Disappeared: An Experimental Test
Experimentation portant sur les effets eventuels de l'existence d'une double norme, sur les jugements portes sur autrui se fondant sur des informations a propos de la vie sexuelle des personnes visees
Sexuality
A Social Psychological Model of Account-Making in Response to Severe Stress
This paper extends recent theorising on the psychology of accounts and account-making. It is argued that while work on this topic in the area of close relationships and reactions to stress is increasing, as yet too little explicit theoretical analysis and hypothesis postulation have been presented. The present statement amplifies further on the nature of the account-making process and articulates an hypothesised role of this process in people's r…
The effect of current sexual behavior on friendship, dating, and marriage desirability
The purpose of this research was to extend previous studies examining the influence of a person's sexual behavior on others' perceptions of his/ her relationship desirability. Over 750 students from three universities judged the friendship, dating, and marriage desirability of a person based on information ostensibly provided by him/her about current sexual activity. Overall, the results indicated that a target person portrayed as engaging in low…
Introduction to Sociology
Attributions, Accounts, and Close Relationships
House of pain and hope: Accounts of loss
We are grateful to Robert Neimeyer, Mary Passmore, Phil Shaver, and Susan Veach for perceptive comments on a draft of this article. The article is based on a talk given by the first author at the Third Meeting of the International Network on Personal Relationships, Normal, Illinois, May 1991. Thanks are extended to Drs. Sue Sprecher, Sandra Metts, and Bill Cupach for making this presentation possible and to the participants in the studies describ…
Attributions, Accounts and Close Relationships
Becoming a Married Couple: The Emergence of Meaning in the First Years of Marriage
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
Account-making and confiding as acts of meaning in response to sexual assault
The Social Context of Married Women's Work and Its Impact on Black Husbands and White Husbands
Married women's increasing labor force participation has received much research attention (Fendrich, 1984; Gutek, Stromberg, & Larwood, 1988; Hochschild, 1989; Kessler & McRae, 1982; Rosenfield, 1992). Although research has demonstrated that married women's employment outside the home can have positive physical and mental effects on wives (Burke & Weir, 1976; Kessler & McRae, 1982), there is still the sense that these benefits may come at the exp…
Parent-Child Relationships During the Transition to Adulthood
This article uses a panel study of children and mothers to examine how parents and children conceptualize, perceive, and report on their relationships with each other during the children's transition to adulthood years. The article provides strong support for the reliability and validity of reports of parent-child relationships. The article documents generally positive and supportive relationships between parents and children, more positive relat…
Effects of Childhood Family Background on Adult Marital Quality and Perceived Stability
The authors examine the effect of various single-parent childhood family structures on adult marital quality and perceived stability. The authors find no important differences in marital happiness by family history. However, among adults in less than very happy marriages, both adult children of divorce and adults who never lived with their father report significantly higher chances of divorce than those from two-parent families. Among those in re…
Marital Quality Over the Life Course
Much prior research in social psychology indicates that in many domains of social life, individuals' well-being improves in the latter half of the life course. The reason for this pattern is not well understood, however. We argue that objective changes in family composition and in social and economic conditions in middle and later life may explain the later-life increase in well-being. To test this argument we focus on one domain, marital well-be…
Division of Household Labor among Black Couples and White Couples
Research consistently documents that women do most of the housework and childcare within the family, but the explanation for gender inequity within the home is not well understood. One explanation focuses on the distribution of structural resources by gender, which in turn influences the division of household labor. Another concentrates on cultural expectations about gendered responsibilities in the home. We argue that an adequate explanation mus…
People's Accounts Count: The Sociology of Accounts
Humans are inexorably driven to search for order and meaning in their own and others' lives; accounts are a major avenue for sociologists to depict and understand the ways in which individuals experience and identify with that meaning and their social world. The accounts concept has a solid foundation and history in early sociological analysis and research. The current work on accounts focuses on 'story-like' interpretations or explanations and t…
The Impact of Marital Quality, Divorce, and Remarriage on the Relationships Between Parents and Their Children
This paper examines data from a panel study on the long-term effects of parental marital quality and divorce on relationships between parents and adult children. Attention is focused on whether these effects vary by age and gender of child as well as the theoretical explanations linking mother-father and parent-child relations. The relational quality between adult children (18-31 years old) and both mothers and fathers is examined from the perspe…
A Programmatic Review: Building a Two-Way Bridge between Social Psychology and the Study of the Early Years of Marriage
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: A 14-Year Longitudinal Study of Black Couples and White Couples
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…
The Context of Race/Ethnicity in Interpersonal Relationships: Crossing the Chasm
Interpersonal Relationships
In any relationship, two participants are interdependent, where the behavior of each affects the outcomes of the other. Additionally, the individuals interact with each other in a series of interactions that are interrelated and affect each other. Individuals form many different kinds of relationships with other people, some of which are intimate and close (e.g., parent–child, spouse–spouse, friendships) and others which are not intimate and clos…
Marital Conflict Behaviors and Implications for Divorce Over 16 Years
This study examined self-reported marital conflict behaviors and their implications for divorce. Husbands and wives (N = 373 couples; 47% White American, 53% Black American) reported conflict behaviors in Years 1, 3, 7, and 16 of their marriages. Individual behaviors (e.g., destructive behaviors) and patterns of behaviors between partners (e.g., withdrawal-constructive) in Year 1 predicted higher divorce rates. Wives' destructive and withdrawal b…
Marital Well-Being Over Time Among Black and White Americans: The First Seven Years
Interpersonal Relationships
In any relationship, two participants are interdependent, where the behavior of each affects the outcomes of the other. Most of the research on interpersonal relationships has focused on relationships that are close, intimate, and have high interdependence. In the 1960s the initial focus of research was on the interpersonal attraction process, primarily between strangers meeting for the first time. More recently, relationships have received consi…
Who Does the Work? Partner Perceptions of the Initiation and Maintenance of Romantic Relationships
The contributions and effort that partners perceive each other to have made to the initiation and maintenance of their relationship may have significant individual and interpersonal consequences. Yet relatively little empirical research has explored such perceptions. The primary goal of the present investigation was to examine how both members of a sample of heterosexual romantic couples (N = 96 couples) perceived the balance of work in regard to…
Psychology (27 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Sociology (20 works) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (17 works) · Developmental psychology (17 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (15 works) · Social Psychology (14 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works)