Gottman’s objective of this study was to calculate the timing of divorce of married couples by using a two model that compared the couple’s interaction with each other. The main idea was to test that marital divorce can be predicted to exist in two critical periods of most marriages. The first during the first seven years of marriage and the second after 14 years, to be more specific when the children reach adolescence.
These studies have allowed having a better understanding of the elements of marital happiness and what keeps a marriage united. With this study it has become possible. As divorce rates may increase or decrease in future years, having these kinds of researches might help by decreasing divorce rates and by repairing troubled relationship by knowing the causable problem.
It is also important to have these kinds of studies because it could be a way of teaching married couples that the best environment to raise a happy and …show more content…
Marital divorces can be predicted to exist in most marriages the first two critical periods during the first seven years of marriage and the second at 14 years. By the end of the 14 year research, 22 out of the 79 couples had divorced at that time. They found that the 9 of the couples who initially participated in the study had divorced after 7.4 years (early divorce group). Years later, the researchers contacted with couples to repeat the investigation to find out that 13 more marriages ended their relationship after 13.9 years of marriage (later divorce group). The first model in which early divorcing is predicted happens when a range of marriage dissatisfaction “negative codes such as contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling” (Gottman & Levenson, 2002, p. 743) the lower satisfaction in a marriage the sooner the divorce is bound to happen. The second model suggests that later divorce is due to the lack of “positive
These studies have allowed having a better understanding of the elements of marital happiness and what keeps a marriage united. With this study it has become possible. As divorce rates may increase or decrease in future years, having these kinds of researches might help by decreasing divorce rates and by repairing troubled relationship by knowing the causable problem.
It is also important to have these kinds of studies because it could be a way of teaching married couples that the best environment to raise a happy and …show more content…
Marital divorces can be predicted to exist in most marriages the first two critical periods during the first seven years of marriage and the second at 14 years. By the end of the 14 year research, 22 out of the 79 couples had divorced at that time. They found that the 9 of the couples who initially participated in the study had divorced after 7.4 years (early divorce group). Years later, the researchers contacted with couples to repeat the investigation to find out that 13 more marriages ended their relationship after 13.9 years of marriage (later divorce group). The first model in which early divorcing is predicted happens when a range of marriage dissatisfaction “negative codes such as contempt, criticism, defensiveness, and stonewalling” (Gottman & Levenson, 2002, p. 743) the lower satisfaction in a marriage the sooner the divorce is bound to happen. The second model suggests that later divorce is due to the lack of “positive