Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality or Breakup

• Premarital Factors and Later Marital Quality and Stability.- Assumptions and Methods.- Breaking Up before and after Marriage.- Family-of-origin Structures and Processes and Adult Children’s Marital Quality.- Individual Characteristics Influencing Marital Quality.- Social Contexts Influencing Marital Quality.- Premarital Couple Interactional Processes and Later Marital Quality.- Putting it all Together: Four Longitudinal, Multivariate Models of Premarital Prediction of Marital Quality.- General Principles, Implications, and Future Directions.- Epilogue and Invitation.

'By focusing on premarital predictors of the development of marital discord, Holman answers a call in the marital literature to more carefully examine courtship and engagement.' Marriage and Family, 64 (November 2002)