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English
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A Model for Predicting Divorce at Marital Therapy Intake Among Latter-day Saint Couples
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Provo, UT
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Brigham Young University
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Ph.D.
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"The purposes of this study were to delineate characteristics which distinguish persons and couples who remained married from those who divorced and to predict divorce in a clinically distressed, Latter-day Saint population. Data on 10 sociodemographic variables and 3 assessment instruments were extracted from case records of married subjects seen at the Brigham Young University Comprehensive Clinic between 1981 and 1985. The data were subjected to a number of statistical procedures to reduce the number of variables and to develop both descriptive and predictive descriminant models for various groupings of subjects. Marital Status Inventory scores proved to be the most highly correlated with divorce for all groupings of subjects. Wives' variables were much more highly correlated with divorce than were husbands' variables. Descriptive models for husbands, wives, and couples were able to successfully distinguish between subjects who divorced and subjects who remained married. Corresponding predictive models proved to be significantly more accurate than proportional chance at assigning future marital status." [Author's abstract]