Medicina, Vol. 46 No. 3, 2010.
Pregledni rad
Psychological determinace of marriage
Mirjana Pernar
; Zavod za kliničku, zdravstvenu i organizacijsku psihologiju, KBC Rijeka, Rijeka, Hrvatska
Sažetak
Marriage is both personal and legal commitment between partners. The wedding
ceremony has many symbolic details which are based on traditions from past generations.
Those symbolic details are white dress, a veil, the processional and the father who is giving
the bride away. Family life cycle is a good representation of marriage and family life across
time. Marital relationship has four stages: newlywed marriage, parental marriage, mid-life
marriage and later-life marriage. In the early stages of marriage, each couple actively creates
marital roles based on their own individual values. Marital satisfaction diminishes when
the first baby is born and there is a great chance that it raises again after children leave the
parental home. Couples in the mid-life marriage are usually called the sandwich generation.
In later life, man become less competitive and more relationship oriented while women become
more independent and assertive. Retirements mostly mean a more or less dramatic
change of household routines and responsibilities. Problems of retirement years may occur
due to a stereotypes about what it means to become old and the most serious misconceptions
about old age, a stereotype that share both young and old people, is that sexual interests
are diminished as the years go by. It is often assumed that older man can no longer
performed sexually. Although marital satisfaction refers to how a person describes and evaluates
the quality of his or her marriage, there is no one type of marriage that can be describing
more stable than others.
Ključne riječi
bumerang children; empty nest syndorma; marriage; marriage satisfaction and stability; pathology of marriage
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59247
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Datum izdavanja:
13.9.2010.
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