BRAČNA KVALITETA: POIMANJE, UZROCI I POSLJEDICE
MARITAL QUALITY: DEFINITION, CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES

Summary/Abstract: Different approaches to defining marital quality (marital quality as satisfaction, as marital adjustment and as the partner’s assessment of marital relations) are examined. Those theories of marital quality which have raised the greatest attention in scientific literature are describe and analysed (the theory of social exchange, behaviourist theory, theory of affective attachment, theory of marital and family crisis). Special attention is focused on the problem of measuring marital quality, resulting in the presentation of all the advantages and disadvantages of different measuring methods. Subsequently, marital quality is observed as a dependent variable, and the determinants of marital quality in marriage and out of it are analysed (especially the influence of marital periods, the birth of a child, and length of marriage). Marital quality as an independent variable is observed from the aspect of its influence on partners and marital and family processes, satisfaction with life and marital partners’ health, the stability of marriage and the emotional development of children.

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