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Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions
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ISSN: 1530-3535
Publication date: 15 May 2023
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(2023), "Index", Hernández, A.J.C. and Blair, S.L. (Ed.) Conjugal Trajectories: Relationship Beginnings, Change, and Dissolutions (Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research, Vol. 22), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 255-263. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1530-353520230000022013
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Copyright © 2023 Ana Josefina Cuevas Hernández and Sampson Lee Blair
INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by “n” indicate notes.
Abia family structure
, 234–235
changes and dynamism in
, 236
Adjustments
, 50
African American couples
, 202
African American young adults
, 17
Age difference
, 60, 63
Age discrepancy in three generations of study
, 67–71
Age gap relationships
of age heterogamy
, 60
research
, 61
Age-discrepancy relationships, role of schooling and social class in significance of
, 71–73
Age-discrepant unions
, 71
Age-gap
role of schooling and social class in significance of
, 71–73
in three generations of study
, 67–71
Age-heterogamy
, 221, 223
age-gap and age discrepancy in three generations of study
, 67–71
gender inequality in couple relationships
, 73–74
method and procedure
, 65–66
results
, 66–67
role of schooling and social class in significance of age-gap and age-discrepancy relationships
, 71–73
theory and concepts
, 62–65
Age-homogamy
age-gap and age discrepancy in three generations of study
, 67–71
gender inequality in couple relationships
, 73–74
method and procedure
, 65–66
results
, 66–67
role of schooling and social class in significance of age-gap and age-discrepancy relationships
, 71–73
theory and concepts
, 62–65
Analytic strategy
, 136–137
Arranged marriage
, 130–131, 145n2
“Baby mamas” concept
, 249
“Base-born” concepts
, 242
Bastards concepts
, 242
Births
, 215
Black individuals
, 3
Black young adults
, 4
Breadwinner system
, 43
Breakup distress
casual sexual relationships
, 27–28
committed sexual relationships
, 26–27
current study
, 28–29
data analysis
, 31
hypotheses for breakup distress
, 29
interaction effect
, 34–35
materials and measures
, 30
method
, 29
participants
, 29
procedure
, 30
relationship differences
, 34
results
, 31–32
sample demographic information
, 30
sex differences
, 33–34
strengths and limitations
, 36–37
Breakups
, 27
Casual sex(ual) relationships
, 27–28, 33
Causal frameworks
, 217
Changes
constellation of
, 112
in marriage and family laws
, 125
Children
, 55
Christianity
, 245
Civil unions
, 181
Civil war
, 235
Civil war-time (1967–1970)
conjugal relationships civil war-time
, 243
family structure and conjugal relationship
, 242
family structure–step-parent and single-parent family system
, 242–243
“Close range” variables
, 82
Coding process
, 156
Cohabitation
, 86, 215
Cohabiting unions
, 243, 250
Colima Metropolitan Zone (ZMC)
, 65
Colima-Villa de Álvarez Metropolitan Zone
, 77n4
Collective agency
, 166
Colorism role in romantic relationship quality
, 4–6
Committed romantic relationships
, 33
Committed sexual relationships
, 26–27
Community Development Chairman (CDC)
, 238
Companionate love
, 51
Companionate marriage
, 132–133, 145n1
Competence-promoting parenting
, 3
Concept marriage market
, 62
Concubines
, 240–242
Confucian societies
, 132
Conjugal relationship pre-civil war (1901–1966)
, 240
concubines
, 240–242
Conjugal relationships
, 242
intimacy mutations over time in
, 53–55
Conjugal relationships civil war-time (1967–1970)
, 243
cohabiting
, 243
surge of “illegitimate” children and loss of true identity
, 243
Conjugal Relationships Contemporary Times (2001)
, 247
side chicks
, 247–248
Conjugal relationships post-civil war (1971–1980)
, 244
sugar daddies and sugar mummies
, 244–245
Conjugality
challenges to ideas of family and conjugality from transnational “young” experience
, 52–53
creative adjustments as lens for interpreting family life
, 45–46
at distance
, 42
(in)stability of bond
, 50–52
interwoven life stories
, 47–50
methodology
, 46–47
space
, 53–55
theoretical background
, 43–46
Contemporary families in United States
, 226
Contemporary times family structure and conjugal relationship
, 245
conjugal relationships contemporary times
, 247–248
monogamy, single and step-parent family
, 245–247
single and step-parent family
, 247
Continuous independent variables
, 9
Control variable
, 136
Correlations
, 9
coefficients
, 94
Costa Rica
, 152
total fertility rate in
, 157
Costa Rican households
economic investment strategy
, 161–166
household types
, 166–170
literature review and theoretical framework
, 153–155
marriage and fertility strategy
, 157–161
methodology
, 155–156
profile of persons and households interviewed
, 157
results
, 157
Couple relationships, gender inequality in
, 73–74
Courtship process
, 117
time of
, 116–117
Covariates
, 8
Creative adjustments
, 43–46
as lens for interpreting family life
, 45–46
Croatia
, 84
Croatian families
, 83
Croatian population
, 84
Darker skin individuals
, 16
Dating process
, 117
Delicate process
, 88
Demographic dynamics
, 42
Demographics
, 2, 85
Dependent variables
, 7–8, 135
Developmental idealism
, 134
education as developmental idealism generator
, 133–134
evolving with marriage cohorts
, 134–135
Developmentalism-marriage
, 139
framework
, 130, 133
Direct trajectory
, 179
family relationships and dynamics on
, 189–190
wedding ceremonies on
, 185–186
Distress
, 101, 103
Divorce
common reasons for
, 200, 203
current study
, 202
data analyses
, 204
descriptive results and comparisons
, 204
divorce/separation
, 220
evaluation of findings
, 205
female participants
, 204–205
gender
, 206–207
limitations
, 207–208
literature review
, 198
male participants
, 205
measures
, 203
method
, 202
number
, 204
practical implications
, 208–209
predictors of divorce number by gender
, 204–205
procedure
, 202–203
remarriage and
, 198–199
results
, 204
sample
, 203
sociodemographic characteristics
, 203
sociodemographic predictors
, 200
Domestic partnerships
, 181
East Asia
, 130
contemporary marriage in
, 132
educational effect on marriage in
, 131
marriages in
, 132
East Asian country
, 134
East Asian Social Survey (EASS)
, 135
Economic investment
, 156
strategy
, 161
Education
, 246
as developmental idealism generator
, 133–134
Education-developmentalism-marriage
, 134
Educational strategy
, 156, 160
El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (EDCOSUR)
, 47
El Colegio de México (COLMEX)
, 47
Emotional attitude
, 51
Emotional Sexual Regret
, 31
Endogeneity problems
, 136
Facebook
, 55
Family
, 234
Nigeria’s Civil War as catalyst of change in
, 235–236
relationships and dynamics on short and direct trajectory
, 189–190
scholars
, 130
structure
, 242
Family development theory (FDT)
, 236
Family life
, 43–46
of Mrs Alpízar
, 169
of third generation of interviewees
, 159
trajectory
, 157–158, 166
of women
, 166
Farming
, 245
Fertility strategy
, 156–157
Financial resources
, 201
First Demographic Transition (FDT)
, 155
First-order marriages
, 198–199
Gay Men
family relationships and dynamics on short and direct trajectory
, 189–190
and lesbians
, 184
life changes on long and winding trajectory
, 190–192
life-course trajectories and transitions
, 181–183
literature review
, 179
methods
, 183–185
results
, 185
transitioning into same-sex marriage
, 179–181
wedding ceremonies on long and winding trajectory
, 187–189
wedding ceremonies on short and direct trajectory
, 185–186
Gender
predictors of divorce number by
, 204
theory
, 64
Gender inequality
, 76
in couple relationships
, 73–74
Generation Z
, 34–36
college students
, 27
Guadalajara Metropolitan Zone (AMG)
, 65, 78n5
Hierarchical linear regressions (HLR)
, 9
Hierarchical logistic regression models
, 204
Higher-order marriages (see Remarriages)
Hispanic
, 53
Household
, 152–153
income
, 164, 200–201
types
, 166–170
Huston’s socio-ecological model
, 104
Igbo
family structure
, 234–235
society
, 234
Illegitimate children
, 250
surge of illegitimate children and loss of true identity
, 243
Illegitimate concepts
, 242
Independent samples t-tests
, 9
Independent variables
, 8, 136
Inductive approach
, 185
Industrialization
, 83
INEGI 2020 statistics on marriage
, 62
Infidelity
, 200
(In)stability of bond
, 50–52
Institutional Review Board
, 183
Intended childbearing
, 227
Intercept
, 101
Intergenerational changes
, 152
Internal conversation
, 45
Interwoven life stories
, 47
living apart together in low-income migration
, 47–50
Intimacy
, 43–46
mutations over time in conjugal relationships
, 53–55
Intraclass correlation (ICC)
, 96
Introduced marriage
, 130–132, 134
Law of Marriage and Family (1960)
, 111
Learning process
, 47
Legal relationship recognition
, 181
Lesbians
family relationships and dynamics on short and direct trajectory
, 189–190
life changes on long and winding trajectory
, 190–192
life-course trajectories and transitions
, 181–183
literature review
, 179
methods
, 183–185
results
, 185
transitioning into same-sex marriage
, 179–181
wedding ceremonies on long and winding trajectory
, 187–189
wedding ceremonies on short and direct trajectory
, 185–186
Levene’s tests
, 8
Lexicon
, 242
Life-course trajectories and transitions
, 181–183
Lighter skin individuals
, 16
Lighter skin young adults
, 16
Liminal rituals
, 48
Livelihood dynamics
, 245
Long trajectory
, 179
life changes on
, 190–192
wedding ceremonies on
, 187–189
Marital attitudes
, 8
and impact on relationship quality
, 4
Marital harmony
, 103–104
Marital Horizon Theory
, 6
Marital partner wellbeing
, 86
Marital processes
, 86
Marital quality
, 82, 88 (see also Romantic relationship quality)
aims of study
, 84
analytic strategy
, 94–100
dependent variable
, 88–94
descriptive statistics
, 94
level 1 and level 2 predictors of marital quality
, 89–93
marriage as behavioral ecosystem
, 82
marriage characteristics or level 2 variables
, 86–87
method
, 87
model
, 84
partners’ characteristics or level 1 predictor variables
, 85–86
present study
, 83–84
results
, 101–102
results
, 94
sample
, 87–88
variables and measures
, 88
Marital relationships in FDT
, 237
Marriage
, 14, 110, 132, 179, 234
decision-making rights
, 120–123
duration
, 102–103
formation in Vietnam
, 123
market
, 199
strategy
, 156–157
system
, 43
Marriage cohorts
, 136
developmental idealism evolving with
, 134–135
Mate selection
, 112
criteria of
, 113, 117–120
process
, 113
Material goods
, 169
Materialism
, 86
Mating
, 132
Meaning, life-course trajectories
, 181
Means
, 9
Mexican heterosexual men
, 62
Mexican heterosexual women
, 62
Mexico
age-gap and age discrepancy in three generations of study
, 67–71
age-heterogamy in three generations of heterosexual women and men in
, 62
gender inequality in couple relationships
, 73–74
method and procedure
, 65–66
results
, 66–67
role of schooling and social class in significance of age-gap and age-discrepancy relationships
, 71–73
theory and concepts
, 62–65
Migrants
, 48
Migration
, 42
Ministry of Culture, Sport and Tourism (MOCST)
, 114
Mistresses (see Side chicks)
Modern idealism
, 132
Monogamy
, 240, 245–247
family structure
, 243–244
MPF
, 216
Multilayered-interdependent causal pathways
, 82
Multilevel linear regression modeling
, 96
Multiple logistic regression models
, 136
Multiplication of currency agencies
, 48
Multivariate analysis
, 113
National culture
, 53
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health
, 2
National Survey of American Life (NSAL)
, 6
National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)
, 218
Nigerian Civil War
case study
, 234
as catalyst of change in family
, 235–236
civil war-time family structure and conjugal relationship
, 242–243
contemporary times family structure and conjugal relationship
, 245–248
data instrument and procedure
, 238
data management and analysis
, 238
Igbo family structure
, 234–235
methodology
, 237
observed changes and dynamism in Abia’s Family Structure
, 236
post-civil war family structure and conjugal relationship
, 243–245
pre-civil war–family structure and conjugal relationship
, 238–240
result
, 238
study area
, 237
study design, population, and technique
, 237
theoretical background
, 236–237
Nuclear families
, 44, 234
Partners
personality
, 85
value system
, 86
Pathways to marriage in East Asian Societies
analytic strategy
, 136–137
control variable
, 136
data and method
, 135
dependent variable
, 135
descriptive findings
, 137–138
developmental idealism evolving with marriage cohorts
, 134–135
different pathways to marriage
, 131–133
education as developmental idealism generator
, 133–134
findings
, 137
independent variable
, 136
literature review
, 131
model estimations
, 139–142
robustness test
, 143
Perceived Relationship Quality Component (PRQC)
, 7
Physical age
, 64
Physical health
, 118
Physical violence
, 200
“Picture-perfect” romantic relationships
, 34
Polygamous families
, 234
Polygamy
, 239, 246
Polygyny
, 238–240, 243
Population-household relationship
, 152
Post-Civil War (1971–1980)
conjugal relationships post-civil war
, 244–245
family structure and conjugal relationship
, 243
family structure–predominately monogamy
, 243–244
Post-familial family
, 44
Post-hoc simple slopes analyses
, 9
Post-hoc t-tests
, 33
Pre-civil war (1901–1966)
conjugal relationship pre-civil war
, 240–242
family structure and conjugal relationship
, 238
family structure–predominately polygyny
, 238–240
Primary sampling unit (PSU)
, 136
Qualitative approach
, 183
Quality of Marriage Index (QMI)
, 88
Racial/ethnic minoritized status
, 8
Racially/ethnically minoritized individuals, relationship quality in
, 3–4
Radical inclusivity
, 36
Red River Delta
, 115
Relationship quality
, 7
Relationship status
, 28
Relationship-centered problems
, 201
Remarriages
, 198
prevalence of
, 199
Reproduction strategies
, 152, 154
of Costa Rican households
, 152
of households
, 154
Residual
, 101
Resource theory
, 65
Robustness test
, 143
Romantic relationship breakups
, 27
Romantic relationship quality (see also Marital quality)
analysis
, 8–9
correlation matrix, means, and standard deviations for study variables
, 10
current study
, 6–7
dependent variables
, 7–8
independent variables
, 8
marital attitudes and impact on relationship quality
, 4
measures
, 7
method
, 7
participants
, 7
procedure
, 7
relationship quality in racially/ethnically minoritized individuals
, 3–4
results
, 9
role of skin tone and colorism
, 4–6
Satisfaction subscale
, 8
Schooling role in significance of age-gap and age-discrepancy relationships
, 71–73
Second demographic transition (SDT)
, 152
Second-generation women
, 163, 165
Self-initiated marriage
, 130
Self-initiated relationship formation
, 132
Sequentially ordered transitions
, 182
Serial cohabitation
, 215–216
Sexual partner
, 35
Sexual regret
, 28, 31
casual sexual relationships
, 27–28
committed sexual relationships
, 26–27
current study
, 28–29
hypotheses for sexual regret
, 29
interaction effect
, 36
relationship differences
, 35–36
results
, 31–33
sex differences
, 35
strengths and limitations
, 36–37
Short trajectory
, 179
family relationships and dynamics on
, 189–190
wedding ceremonies on
, 185–186
Side chicks
, 247–248
Single-parent family system
, 242–247
Skin tone role in romantic relationship quality
, 4–6
Snowball sampling technique
, 155–156
Snowballing technique
, 237
Social class role in significance of age-gap and age-discrepancy relationships
, 71–73
Social investment
, 156
strategy
, 164
Social media
, 27
Socialistic sociopolitical system
, 83
Socio-ecological model
, 83–84, 86, 103
Sociodemographic predictors of divorce
, 200
age
, 201
education
, 201
income
, 201
length of marriage
, 202
presence of children
, 200
race and ethnicity
, 201–202
Socioeconomic context
, 152, 155
Socioeconomic status (SES)
, 201
Stable couple
, 43
Stable transnational family
, 44
Standard deviation (SD)
, 9
State’s court system
, 202
Statistical package for social scientists (SPSS version 20)
, 96
Step-parent family system
, 242–247
Stepfamilies
, 199, 206, 208, 216
Stress
, 46
Subsequent divorce
, 198, 200, 204
Substance abuse
, 200
Sugar daddies and sugar mummies
, 244–245
concept of
, 250
Symbolic investment
, 156
strategy
, 164
Third-generation people
, 164
Traditional norms
, 70
Traditional pre-socialist society of Vietnam
, 110
Trajectories concept
, 181
Transition to marriage
, 182
Transitional events concept
, 236
Transnational “young” experience, challenges to ideas of family and conjugality from
, 52–53
Transnational conjugality
, 45
Transnational family
, 42, 44
Unintended births
, 215, 220, 228
Unintended childbearing
, 214
disentangling
, 216–218
Unintended higher-order births
background
, 215
current study
, 218–219
data
, 219–220
disentangling unintended childbearing, marital ties, family complexity, and instability
, 216–218
measures
, 220–221
multivariate findings
, 223–226
results
, 221–223
Union stability
background
, 215
current study
, 218–219
data
, 219–220
disentangling unintended childbearing, marital ties, family complexity, and instability
, 216–218
measures
, 220–221
multivariate findings
, 223–226
results
, 221–223
Unions
, 64
dissolution
, 220
United States
, 216
Universidad Autónoma de México (UAM Iztapalapa)
, 47
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
, 47
Urbanization
, 83
US Supreme Court
, 178
Vietnam
criteria of mate selection
, 117–120
data
, 112–113
findings
, 113
getting acquainted and courtship before marriage
, 115
marriage decision-making rights
, 120–123
marriage formation in
, 112
number of potential partners
, 117
reasons for getting married
, 113–114
time of courtship process
, 116–117
ways of getting acquainted
, 115–116
Vietnam Family Survey 2006 (VFS 2006)
, 112, 118, 120
Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey (2001)
, 112
Vietnam Population and Housing Survey (2016)
, 112
Vietnamese society
, 120
Wedding ceremonies
on long and winding trajectory
, 187–189
on short and direct trajectory
, 185–186
Western idea of love-based companionate marriage
, 130
Western-based “companionate marriage”
, 131
Winding trajectory
, 179
life changes on
, 190–192
wedding ceremonies on
, 187–189
Women
, 34
determinism
, 50
Young adults
, 2, 7, 26–27
- Prelims
- Chapter 1: An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Marital Attitudes and Skin Tone Perception on the Romantic Relationship Quality Among African American and Latinx Young Adults
- Chapter 2: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Investigating Breakup Distress and Sexual Regret in Undergraduates' Casual and Committed Sexual Relationships
- Chapter 3: Romantic, Confessional and Post-Romantic: The Timeline of Conjugality at a Distance Between Mexico and the United States
- Chapter 4: Age-Homogamy and Age-Heterogamy in Three Generations of Heterosexual Women and Men in Mexico
- Chapter 5: Predictors of Marital Quality: What Makes a Happy Marriage in Croatia?
- Chapter 6: Marriage Formation in Vietnam: Characteristics and Changes
- Chapter 7: Education, Marriage Cohorts, and Different Pathways to Marriage in East Asian Societies
- Chapter 8: Life Trajectories and Reproductive Strategies of Costa Rican Households: An Intergenerational Perspective
- Chapter 9: What Difference Does Marriage Make? Life Course Trajectories and the Transition to Marriage for Gay Men and Lesbians
- Chapter 10: Identifying Predictors of First Versus Subsequent Divorce Among Divorcing Parents
- Chapter 11: Unintended Higher-Order Births and Union Stability: Variation by Union Characteristics
- Chapter 12: Dynamism and Changes in the Abia Family Structure and Conjugal Relationship: The Influence of the Nigerian Civil War
- Index