A Demaris
Biographic Data
| ID | 7895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Demaris |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Demaris |
| SIGNATURE | DEMARIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7622-9325 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 739 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 68 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 17 |
Race Differences in Marital Unhappiness: Accounting for Strengths and Deficits
The Perfect Paramour: Predicting Intention to Own a Sex Doll
The Trajectory of Subjective Well-Being: A Partial Explanation of the Marriage Advantage
Although several studies have documented a distinct marriage advantage in well-being, it is still unclear what it is about marriage that renders this benefit. We hypothesize that it is due to factors theorized to accrue to matrimony, such as elevated financial status and specific social psychological supports. We examine the trajectory of subjective well-being for 1135 respondents from the three-wave 2010 GSS panel survey utilizing linear mixed-e…
Black-White Differences in the Reciprocal Relationship Between Perceived Discrimination and Psychological Distress
We formulate a MIDUS longitudinal data-based multi-population LISREL model to gauge variation among Black and White Americans in the reciprocal relationship across time between perceived major and everyday discrimination, and psychological distress. Two hypotheses building on prior theory and empirical findings are generated: reciprocity between perceived discrimination and distress, and stronger reciprocity among Blacks. Here, "reciprocity" deno…
Marital Sanctification and Spiritual Intimacy Predicting Married Couples' Observed Intimacy Skills across the Transition to Parenthood
This study examined the extent to which 164 married heterosexuals' reports of the sanctification of marriage and spiritual intimacy during pregnancy predicted the trajectory of the couples' observed intimacy skills during late pregnancy and when their first child was 3, 6, and 12 months old. At each time point, couples were videotaped in their homes for 10 min discussing their fears and vulnerabilities about becoming and being a new parent. Separ…
Role of Marital Quality in Explaining Depressive Symptoms After Marital Termination Among Older Adults
This study assesses whether prior marital quality moderates the impact of divorce or widowhood on subsequent depression. Poor marital quality may buffer depression associated with divorce/widowhood; conversely, the effect of divorce/widowhood on depression could be exacerbated by previous marital quality. Three waves from the National Survey of Families and Households based on respondents, ages 50 and older, ( N = 2,570) included eight marital qu…
Marriage Advantage in Subjective Well-Being: Causal Effect or Unmeasured Heterogeneity
I investigate whether the marriage advantage in subjective well-being is a true protective effect vs. being attributable to self-selection into (or out of) marriage based on pre-existing mental health. I utilize 1,240 respondents from the GSS panel, a three-wave longitudinal survey collected from 2010-2014. I use a pseudo-treatment approach to informally test for the presence of self-selection. This is followed by a fixed-effect regression analys…
Familial Effects on Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Across Adolescence and Young Adulthood
Research suggests violence in the family-of-origin is a consistent predictor of later intimate partner violence (IPV). However, prior empirical studies have also demonstrated that exposure to violence does not lead deterministically to violent behaviors in young adulthood. Given that family context entails more than simply the presence or absence of abuse, additional aspects of family life warrant examination. One such aspect is the quality of th…
Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration from Adolescence to Young Adulthood: Trajectories and the Role of Familial Factors
The perception of fairness in infant care and mothers' postpartum depression
Parents and partners: Moderating and mediating influences on intimate partner violence across adolescence and young adulthood
Prior work examining intimate partner violence (IPV) among young adults often has emphasized familial characteristics, such as parent-child physical aggression (PCPA), and romantic relationship dynamics, such as jealousy and controlling behaviors, but has not considered these two domains simultaneously. Likewise, research examining how these two domains affect IPV perpetration over time for young adults is still limited. Using five waves of data …
Equity Dynamics in the Perceived Fairness of Infant Care
How is the perceived fairness of infant care affected by spouses' relative contributions to it and to other domains of their relationship? Longitudinal data on 178 couples expecting the birth of their first child were collected during a period spanning approximately the first year of the child's life. Overall, wives were more likely than husbands to see infant care as fair to the wife. Net of fathers' contributions to infant care, spouses were mo…
Interracial friendship and the trajectory of prominority attitudes: Assessing intergroup contact theory
We analyze the trajectory of racial attitude change among White university students, over a 4-year time period, representing an advancement over previous studies’ use of longitudinal designs alone to test the causal ordering and nature of the relationship between contact and attitudes. Adding to the literature on intergroup friendships, we examined the impact of two types of intergroup contact (interracial friendships and neighborhood racial cont…
Burning the Candle at Both Ends: Extramarital Sex as a Precursor of Marital Disruption
This study examines several aspects of the association between engaging in extramarital sex and the disruption of one's marriage. Panel data on 1,621 respondents followed from 1980 to 2000 in the Marital Instability Over the Life Course survey were used to answer these questions. Interval-censored Cox regression analysis revealed several noteworthy findings. As previously found in earlier analyses with these data, reports of problems due to extra…
Nonmaternal Care's Association With Mother's Parenting Sensitivity: A Case of Self-Selection Bias
Although attachment theory posits that the use of nonmaternal care undermines quality of mothers' parenting, empirical evidence for this link is inconclusive. Using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (N = 1,233), the authors examined the associations between nonmaternal care characteristics and maternal sensitivity during the first 3 years of children's lives, wit…
Logistic Regression: Basic Foundations and New Directions
Logistic regression is a regression-modeling technique that is optimum when the response variable is categorical. Binary logistic regression applies when the criterion is dichotomous. The probability of an event is modeled as a nonlinear function of the regressor set, although the equation is easily linearized via the logit link function. Exponentiated coefficients, known as odds ratios, are interpreted as multiplicative analogs of the slope coef…
Developmental Patterns in Marital Satisfaction: Another Look at Covenant Marriage
This study investigated differences in the trajectory of marital satisfaction in the first 7 years between couples in covenant versus standard marriages. The authors analyzed data on 707 Louisiana marriages from the Marriage Matters Panel Survey of Newlywed Couples, 1998-2004, using multivariate longitudinal growth modeling. When the sample was restricted to couples who remained married over the duration of the study, a marginal benefit of covena…
Doing the Scut Work of Infant Care: Does Religiousness Encourage Father Involvement
Considerable debate exists regarding whether religiousness promotes or impedes greater father involvement in parenting. Our study addresses this issue using a Midwestern longitudinal dataset that tracks the transition to first parenthood for 169 married couples. We focus on performance of the "messier" tasks of infant care. We find little evidence that religiousness enhances father involvement in this domain. Biblically conservative couples exhib…
The 20-year trajectory of marital quality in enduring marriages: Does equity matter
I examine the trajectory of marital quality as a function of relationship equity with data from a six-wave panel study of 704 married respondents between 1980 and 2000. Reporting that one "gives more" to the marriage (subjective underbenefit) is more likely for women than men at any given marital duration. Respondents' relative contribution to income, paid labor, housework, and health (objective underbenefit) raises this probability for women of …
Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity
Theory suggests that relationship inequity will be associated with less marital and personal distress among the more religious, and that this interaction effect will be stronger for women than men. Data are from 178 married couples experiencing the third trimester of pregnancy of their first biological child. Five outcome variables were assessed for each spouse: marital satisfaction, love, marital conflict, depression, and anxiety. Consistent wit…
Sexual Assault and Current Mental Health: The Role of Help-Seeking and Police Response
We examine the extent to which seeking help from social service agencies, family and friends, reporting to the police, or responses by the police might buffer or exacerbate the impact of sexual assault on mental health outcomes among sexual assault victims.The trend in many cases was for help-seeking and police response to exacerbate the impact of sexual assault victimization. With respect to depression, we found that the association of rape pene…
Distal and Proximal Influences on the Risk of Extramarital Sex: A Prospective Study of Longer Duration Marriages
Previous models of the risk of extramarital sex (EMS) rely largely on cross-section samples and retrospective reporting. This may well conflate causes with consequences of EMS in the same model. Instead, this study employs panel data with an event-history approach to re-assess the influences on the risk of EMS. The sample consists of 1,270 married respondents, with no prior history of EMS, who were followed up in five subsequent surveys spanning …
Whose Time Is It: The Effect of Employment and Work/Family Stress on Children’s Housework
Children's time use-and specifically the time they spend on household chores-is an important arena for understanding social change. However, few studies accurately depict the multiple factors influencing children's household labor, including parent's and children's available time and parent's levels of work/family stress. We address these gaps by exploring how parents' and children's time use and perceived stress constrains time for housework. We…
Widowhood, Gender, and Depression: A Longitudinal Analysis
Many cross-sectional studies have found that widowhood is psychologically a more difficult experience for men than for women. However, most longitudinal studies have found either no gender difference or a slightly greater effect for women. The authors attempted to resolve this paradox with data from the first two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households. They found that men whose wives died between the two waves were already highly…
The role of relationship inequity in marital disruption
This study examines whether subjective or objective inequity in marriage is associated with later marital disruption. The sample of 1500 couples is from Waves 1 (1987-1988) and 2 (1992-1994) of the National Survey of Families and Households. The only subjective index of inequity associated with disruption is women's sense of being underbenefited, with greater underbenefit raising the risk of divorce. However, husbands' individual-level, as oppose…
Union Formation and Depression: Selection and Relationship Effects
Many studies have established that married people fare better than their never-married counterparts in terms of psychological well-being. It is still unclear, however, whether this advantage is due primarily to beneficial effects of marriage or to the selection of psychologically healthier individuals into marriage. This study employs data on young adults from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households to test hypotheses based o…
Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in the United States: A Reassessment
Alfred DeMaris, K. Vaninadha Rao, Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in the United States: A Reassessment, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 178-190
A Tutorial in Logistic Regression
Many procedures in SAS/STAT ® can be used to perform logistic regression analysis: CATMOD, GENMOD,LOGISTIC, and PROBIT. Each procedure has special features that make it useful for certain applications. For most applications, PROC LOGISTIC is the preferred choice. It fits binary response or proportional odds models, provides various model-selection methods to identify important prognostic variables from a large number of candidate variables, and c…
Economic Distress and Intimate Violence: Testing Family Stress and Resources Theories
Hypotheses shaped by family stress and resource theories about the impact of household economic indicators on the risk of violence against women in intimate relationships are tested with a data set built from the initial two waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) and the 1990 U.S. Census. Measures of employment status, job conditions, and economic well-being for male and female partners are examined with logistic regressio…
Gender Differences in the Depressive Effect of Widowhood in Later Life
Although widowhood has a strong depressive effect for older men, its effect for women is nonsignificant, and it explains a small proportion of the variation in depressive symptomatology. This suggests that most people, particularly women, adapt relatively well in the long run
Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability: A Test of the Unconventionality Hypothesis
This study examines whether the greater instability of marriages begun by premarital cohabitation can be accounted for by cohabitors greater unconventionality in family ideology. The hypothesis was largely unsupported. Although family attitudes and beliefs tend to predict the attractiveness of a cohabiting lifestyle they do not account for differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors in instability. Moreover controlling for background differe…
The Family and Peer Relations of Black Adolescents
Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance)
The role of relationship inequity in marital disruption
This study examines whether subjective or objective inequity in marriage is associated with later marital disruption. The sample of 1500 couples is from Waves 1 (1987-1988) and 2 (1992-1994) of the National Survey of Families and Households. The only subjective index of inequity associated with disruption is women's sense of being underbenefited, with greater underbenefit raising the risk of divorce. However, husbands' individual-level, as oppose…
Distal and Proximal Factors in Domestic Violence: A Test of an Integrated Model
We employed 4,095 couples from both waves of the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH) to test a model of couple violence drawn from several theoretical perspectives. The outcome distinguishes among nonviolent couples and those experiencing either physical aggression or intense male violence. According to the model, background characteristics of couples are related to relationship stressors, which affect the risk of violence via their…
Ideology, Power, and Equity: Testing Competing Explanations for the Perception of Fairness in Household Labor
Alfred DeMaris, Monica A. Longmore, Ideology, Power, and Equity: Testing Competing Explanations for the Perception of Fairness in Household Labor, Social Forces, Vol. 74, No. 3 (Mar., 1996), pp. 1043-1071
Till Discord Do Us Part: The Role of Physical and Verbal Conflict in Union Disruption
The focus of this study was the extent to which physical aggression and, to a lesser extent, verbal conflict predict relationship dissolution in a national sample. Data were from a 5- to 7-year follow-up of 3,508 married and cohabiting couples in the National Survey of Families and Households. Controlling for demographic factors and verbal conflict, male violence significantly elevated the risk of disruption between waves. Female violence was not…
Cohabitation with the Future Spouse: Its Influence upon Marital Satisfaction and Communication
The relationship between cohabitation and subsequent marital quality was investigated with data from 309 recently married couples. Having cohabited premaritally was associated with significantly lower perceived quality of communication for wives and significantly lower marital satisfaction for both spouses. After controlling for sex-role traditionalism, church attendance, and other sociocultural differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors, h…
The 20-year trajectory of marital quality in enduring marriages: Does equity matter
I examine the trajectory of marital quality as a function of relationship equity with data from a six-wave panel study of 704 married respondents between 1980 and 2000. Reporting that one "gives more" to the marriage (subjective underbenefit) is more likely for women than men at any given marital duration. Respondents' relative contribution to income, paid labor, housework, and health (objective underbenefit) raises this probability for women of …
Perceived Inequity and Depression in Intimate Relationships: The Moderating Effect of Self-Esteem
Monica A. Longmore, Alfred Demaris, Perceived Inequity and Depression in Intimate Relationships: The Moderating Effect of Self-Esteem, Social Psychology Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Jun., 1997), pp. 172-184
Parenting Stepchildren and Biological Children: The Effects of Stepparent's Gender and New Biological Children
Evolutionary views suggest that stepparents find it more difficult to parent stepchildren than to parent biological children. However, gender stratification perspectives suggest that stepmothers are more likely than are stepfathers to experience role conflict in acting as both a stepparent and a biological parent. Therefore, especially when new biological children are added to the stepfamily, stepmothers, more often than stepfathers, may experien…
Sanctification of Marriage and General Religiousness as Buffers of the Effects of Marital Inequity
Theory suggests that relationship inequity will be associated with less marital and personal distress among the more religious, and that this interaction effect will be stronger for women than men. Data are from 178 married couples experiencing the third trimester of pregnancy of their first biological child. Five outcome variables were assessed for each spouse: marital satisfaction, love, marital conflict, depression, and anxiety. Consistent wit…
Attrition in Batterers' Counseling: The Role of Social and Demographic Factors
This study was designed to assess the extent to which social and demographic characteristics predict noncompletion of therapy by spouse batterers. Characteristics that were significantly associated with noncompletion of treatment were employment status, relationship to victim, timing of abuse, arrest record, alcohol problems, motivation to terminate violent behavior, age, income, and age of partner. In combination, however, these factors only imp…
Interracial friendship and the trajectory of prominority attitudes: Assessing intergroup contact theory
We analyze the trajectory of racial attitude change among White university students, over a 4-year time period, representing an advancement over previous studies’ use of longitudinal designs alone to test the causal ordering and nature of the relationship between contact and attitudes. Adding to the literature on intergroup friendships, we examined the impact of two types of intergroup contact (interracial friendships and neighborhood racial cont…
Doing the Scut Work of Infant Care: Does Religiousness Encourage Father Involvement
Considerable debate exists regarding whether religiousness promotes or impedes greater father involvement in parenting. Our study addresses this issue using a Midwestern longitudinal dataset that tracks the transition to first parenthood for 169 married couples. We focus on performance of the "messier" tasks of infant care. We find little evidence that religiousness enhances father involvement in this domain. Biblically conservative couples exhib…
Explained Variance in Logistic Regression: A Monte Carlo Study of Proposed Measures
R2 is widely relied on in linear regression to index a model's discriminatory power. Many counterparts have been proposed for use in logistic regression, but no single measure is consistently used. Two potential criterion values are relevant: the explained variance in the latent scale underlying the binary indicator of event occurrence and the explained risk of the event itself. In this study, Monte Carlo methods were used to examine the performa…
Stepfather-stepchild Relationship Quality: The Stepfather's Demand for Conformity and the Biological Father's Involvement
Using data from the National Survey of Families and Households, the authors investigate how a stepfather's demand for conformity from a stepchild influences stepfather-stepchild relationship quality. Drawing from normative resource theory as well as from Coleman's theory of social capital, the authors consider whether the effect depends on the social capital that the stepchild derives from his or her relationship with the biological father. The a…
Distal and Proximal Influences on the Risk of Extramarital Sex: A Prospective Study of Longer Duration Marriages
Previous models of the risk of extramarital sex (EMS) rely largely on cross-section samples and retrospective reporting. This may well conflate causes with consequences of EMS in the same model. Instead, this study employs panel data with an event-history approach to re-assess the influences on the risk of EMS. The sample consists of 1,270 married respondents, with no prior history of EMS, who were followed up in five subsequent surveys spanning …
Harsh Physical Discipline in Childhood and Violence in Later Romantic Involvements: The Mediating Role of Problem Behaviors
This study examines the impact that experiencing harsh physical discipline in childhood and engaging in problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood have on experiencing and perpetrating intimate violence. Using LISREL 7, we tested a model based on social learning theory, Freudian theory, and theories of deviance. The 608 cases analyzed are from a longitudinal study of adolescents conducted in 1982 and 1992-1993. The results suggest t…
Elevated sexual activity in violent marriages: Hypersexuality or sexual extortion
Couples have been observed to be more sexually active in marriages characterized by violence. Two alternative hypotheses are posed to account for this. The hypersexuality hypothesis is that a pre‐existing propensity for both aggression and violence characterizes both partners in selected marriages. The sexual extortion hypothesis is that male violence creates a climate of fear in which women are coerced into having sex more often they would other…
Whose Time Is It: The Effect of Employment and Work/Family Stress on Children’s Housework
Children's time use-and specifically the time they spend on household chores-is an important arena for understanding social change. However, few studies accurately depict the multiple factors influencing children's household labor, including parent's and children's available time and parent's levels of work/family stress. We address these gaps by exploring how parents' and children's time use and perceived stress constrains time for housework. We…
A Guide to the Literature on Aggressive Behavior
Cohabitation with the Future Spouse: Its Influence upon Marital Satisfaction and Communication
The relationship between cohabitation and subsequent marital quality was investigated with data from 309 recently married couples. Having cohabited premaritally was associated with significantly lower perceived quality of communication for wives and significantly lower marital satisfaction for both spouses. After controlling for sex-role traditionalism, church attendance, and other sociocultural differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors, h…
Role-Set Diversity: Benefit or Strain
Most social workers interact with many different types of people in performing their jobs. One view suggests such diversity is beneficial; an opposing view is that this causes job strains. This 'research indicates a correlation between increased strain and increased role-set diversity only for those age 36-41. Perceived benefits rose with diversity for those in mental health and public welfare settings. For mental health workers, benefits outweig…
Nonrespondent Characteristics and Bias in a Study of Batterers
The survey response of former clients of a spouse batterers' counseling program has been examined in order to assess the efficacy of the mailed questionnaire in eliciting follow-up data. A comparison of respondent to nonrespondent characteristics revealed that those who were Protestants, those with alcohol problems, those whose parents had been violent with each other, and those who had "beaten up" their partners were significantly less likely to…
The New Other Woman: Contemporary Single Women in Affairs with Married Men
The Efficacy of a Spouse Abuse Model in Accounting for Courtship Violence
A model consisting of social class, the balance of resources between partners, and experience with violence in the family of orientation-factors that have the greatest salience to spouse abuse-was tested on a sample of 484 white college students, most of whom were currently or previously involved in heterosexual relationships. For males, only being punished harshly as a child was significantly related to inflicting violence on a partner, while be…
Attrition in Batterers' Counseling: The Role of Social and Demographic Factors
This study was designed to assess the extent to which social and demographic characteristics predict noncompletion of therapy by spouse batterers. Characteristics that were significantly associated with noncompletion of treatment were employment status, relationship to victim, timing of abuse, arrest record, alcohol problems, motivation to terminate violent behavior, age, income, and age of partner. In combination, however, these factors only imp…
Delinquency as a Risk Factor in Teenage Pregnancy
Drawing upon longitudinal data collected from the same boys and girls in their early (13–14) and later (18–19) years of adolescence, this research models age at sexual debut, contraceptive risk-taking, and teenage pregnancy on the basis of family background and delinquency involvement during the early years of adolescence. The data also allow for control over the influence of social class while studying the effects of race, and vice-versa. Regres…
Interpreting Logistic Regression Results: A Critical Commentary
The Dynamics of Generational Transfer in Courtship Violence: A Biracial Exploration
A framework for the interpretation of first-order interaction in logit modeling
Several suggestions have been tendered for interpreting first-order interaction in log-linear analysis. Occasionally these methods result either in a loss of information or in results that are difficult to grasp on an intuitive level. It is argued that interpreting effect parameters in terms of odds ratios provides an elegant and intuitively appealing conceptual framework that has great generality across models. The interaction term then resemble…
Logit Modeling
Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in the United States: A Reassessment
Alfred DeMaris, K. Vaninadha Rao, Premarital Cohabitation and Subsequent Marital Stability in the United States: A Reassessment, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 1 (Feb., 1992), pp. 178-190
Sex Differences in the Accuracy of Recall of Witnesses of Portrayed Dyadic Violence
Alfred DeMaris, Meredith D. Pugh, Erika Harman, Sex Differences in the Accuracy of Recall of Witnesses of Portrayed Dyadic Violence, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 54, No. 2 (May, 1992), pp. 335-345
The Relationship Between Family Structure and Parent-Child Relationship Problems in Single Father Households
This study examines the influence of number, sex distribution, age distribution, and age spacing of children on the severity of parent-child relationship problems in 912 single father households. Fathers with custody of preadolescent girls, compared to those raising both preadolescent and adolescent girls, children of both sexes, or boys exclusively, reported significantly fewer problems with their children. No effects were found for family size …
Odds versus Probabilities in Logit Equations: A Reply to Roncek
Journal Article Odds versus Probabilities in Logit Equations: A Reply to Roncek Get access Alfred DeMaris Alfred DeMaris Bowling Green State University Direct all correspondence to Alfred DeMaris, Department of Sociology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 71, Issue 4, June 1993, Pages 1057–1065, https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/71.4.105…
Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Instability: A Test of the Unconventionality Hypothesis
This study examines whether the greater instability of marriages begun by premarital cohabitation can be accounted for by cohabitors greater unconventionality in family ideology. The hypothesis was largely unsupported. Although family attitudes and beliefs tend to predict the attractiveness of a cohabiting lifestyle they do not account for differences between cohabitors and noncohabitors in instability. Moreover controlling for background differe…
The Family and Peer Relations of Black Adolescents
Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance)
Race, alienation, and interpersonal mistrust
A structural model is proposed that explains race differences in interpersonal trust as a function of blacks' disadvantaged position vis à vis whites in the socioeconomic opportunity structure. This disadvantage, in turn, engenders a sense of alienation that is detrimental to the development of trustin the "generalized other." Data basedon the 1991 General Social Survey were largely supportive of the model. Compared with whites, blacks appear to …
Coital frequency among married and cohabiting couples in the United States
Coital frequency is studied among couples as a function of marital or cohabiting status, relationship duration, number of children, religious affiliation, income, education, fertility intentions, age, race, self-assessed health, time spent in work, and perceived relationship quality. Data are from the 1987–88 National Survey of Families and Households. Predictors of coital frequency that were stable across several analyses were male's and female'…
The Violent Couple
Remarriage, Stepchildren, and Marital Conflict: Challenges to the Incomplete Institutionalization Hypothesis
According to Cherlin (1978), the degree to which the family is varies across family types in the United States. Families are institutionalized to the extent that well-established norms and rituals structure interaction between family members. Cherlin's (1978) hypothesis posits that stepfamilies are relatively lacking in the kinds of norms that guide more traditional (i.e., two-parent biological) families in dealing with particularly complex famil…
A Tutorial in Logistic Regression
Many procedures in SAS/STAT ® can be used to perform logistic regression analysis: CATMOD, GENMOD,LOGISTIC, and PROBIT. Each procedure has special features that make it useful for certain applications. For most applications, PROC LOGISTIC is the preferred choice. It fits binary response or proportional odds models, provides various model-selection methods to identify important prognostic variables from a large number of candidate variables, and c…
Gender and marital status differences in depression: The effects of chronic strains
Using and Interpreting Logistic Regression: A Guide for Teachers and Students
Les AA. montrent que l'utilisation de methodes d'analyse de regression logistique et l'interpretation de donnees collectees par ce biais temoignent souvent d'une grande confusion. Ils estiment que cette situation est liee a l'enseignement et a l'apprentisssage de ces techniques. Ils presentent brievement les principes de ce type d'approche mathematique. Ils proposent un certain nombre de methodes pedagogiques permettant de former les etudiants a …
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