The Surprising Keys to a Long-Lasting Relationship
New research shows the unexpected predictors of your relationship’s stability.
By Susan Krauss Whitbourne Ph.D.
Courtesy of Psychology Today
Everyone would undoubtedly love to be able to peer into the relationship crystal ball to know whether they will remain with their partners, and for how long. Researchers who study the course of long-term relationships are often faced with the limitations of the one-shot or cross-sectional method, in which marital or other committed partners rate their satisfaction along with other key measures of interest, such as degree of conflict. Long-term, or longitudinal, studies have the advantage of being able to follow relationships over time to determine whether the characteristics of the couple at Time 1 have an impact on those same characteristics at Time 2. To be maximally useful, the study should also be able to follow the couples who don’t stay together, as they present the true test of the ability of the researchers to predict what the secrets are to couples remaining together.
You may believe you don’t need research to provide you with the keys to predicting a relationship’s length. Perhaps you know a couple that always seem to be arguing about even the […]
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