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Thrice Told Tales : Married Couples Tell Their Stories by Terri L. Orbuch, Diane Holmberg and Joseph Veroff (2003, Hardcover)
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About this product
Product Identifiers
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN-100805840990
ISBN-139780805840995
eBay Product ID (ePID)2668784
Product Key Features
Number of Pages246 Pages
Publication NameThrice Told Tales : Married Couples Tell Their Stories
LanguageEnglish
SubjectDevelopmental / Adulthood & Aging, Rhetoric, Mental Health, Sociology / Marriage & Family
Publication Year2003
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, Language Arts & Disciplines, Psychology
AuthorTerri L. Orbuch, Diane Holmberg, Joseph Veroff
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight8.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-049232
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal306.81/0973
Table Of ContentContents: Preface. Introduction. A Narrative Approach to Relationships. The Early Years of Marriage Project. Newlyweds' Stories. Beyond the Honeymoon: Changes in Narratives Over Time. Tales of Love and Woe: The Interconnections Between Relationship Narratives and Marital Well-Being. Changing Our Yesterdays: Reconstruction of Early Relationship Memories. Gender as a Factor Affecting Narratives. Ethnicity as a Factor Affecting Narratives. What Have We Learned About Marriage? What Have We Learned About Narratives? Appendices.
SynopsisResearchers have studied marriage for decades, but how is the transition to married life actually experienced by the couples involved? From an insider's perspective, Thrice Told Tales examines married couples' own stories of their relationship. A representative sample of 199 African-American and 177 White married couples were asked to tell the story of their relationship. It provides accounts of courtships, weddings, honeymoons, their adjustment in the early years, and hopes for the future. These stories were first collected a few months after their weddings, and again in the third and seventh years of their marriages. What features of their relationship do the couples highlight as central in the early years? How do their stories change over time? What can we learn about couples' marital well-being by analyzing their stories? How do the stories of men and women, and of White and African-American couples differ? These questions were systematically addressed using extensive coding schemes and comprehensive quantitative analyses. Details of the coding system and procedures are included, making this volume a useful reference for any researcher contemplating analysis of narrative data. However, the key points are also explained in simple prose and illustrated with quotes from the couples' own stories, making the book accessible to anyone with an interest in how young couples experience married life today., In this book, the authors systematically analyze newly-married couples' stories of their lives together, explore changes in these stories over time, and investigate connections between the couples' stories and their marital well-being.
LC Classification NumberHQ536.H638 2003
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