Rebecca Groves Brannock's research while affiliated with Pittsburg State University and other places
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Publications (3)
The purpose of the study was to determine whether marital relationships of doctoral students were affected while they were enrolled in graduate programs. The stratified sample consisted of 54 participants who completed the Demographics and Structured Questionnaire, Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Test, and Index of Marital Satisfaction. There were...
"May 1995." Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 1995. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 94-99).
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... Graduate students may decide to relocate to pursue their degrees, which may require partners to find new jobs near the student's school or force the couple to live apart during graduate school (Clerge et al., 2017). Cumulatively, the decision to pursue a graduate degree can be viewed as a disruption to the family system (Brannock et al., 2000;Carter & McGoldrick, 2005;Gold, 2006), which impacts both students and their partners. ...
... Couples also reported dissatisfaction in areas of their lives not related to school, given that the couples had less time to engage in those activities than they did prior to entering graduate school. Brannock (1996) assessed marital satisfaction of married graduate students at various points during their graduate programs. Levels of satisfaction were fairly consistent at the commencement, the midway point, and toward the completion of the degree program; however, students from divorced parents had significantly lower levels of marital satisfaction than students from intact families, and couples involved in marital therapy had lower levels of marital satisfaction than couples not in therapy. ...
