Original scientific paper

Determinants of a Marital Stability

Josip Obradović ; Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb

Abstract

Due to the intensity of divorce in many highly- industrialized countries, many theorists and researchers have recently started to study factors or variables which determine marital instability and dissolution. In our paper, the main task was to inform about new theories and recent results in this area. First, we tried to explain the major theories of marital instability, such as: Social exchange theory, Inductive theory of the quality of marriage and the theory of the marital dissolution decision. After that, we tried to point out how empirically verified the theories were, i.e., the congruence of theories and research results. In the last part of the paper, we tried to describe research results of marital instability which were not based on the previously mentioned theories. At the end of the paper we refrained from generalizing research results due to the specific nature of the societies in which the research results were obtained, but we appealed for future research efforts on this problem in Yugoslavia.

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Hrčak ID:

155634

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/155634

Publication date:

30.9.1988.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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