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Research consistently indicates that men derive more benefit from marriage in terms of both morbidity and mortality compared to women in US Society (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001). Marital conflict has been shown to adversely influence physiology and health, with greater negative impact on wives compared to husbands (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton 2001; Robles & Kiecolt-Glaser, 2003). There are two primary explanations that have been offered to account for these findings. The relational-interdependence view (Kiecolt-Glaser & Newton, 2001) explains this differential impact by the fact that women hold more relationally interdependent self-representations. Alternatively, the subordination-reactivity hypothesis (Wanic & Kulik, 2011) suggests that women experience greater reactivity to marital conflict because they typically occupy...
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Wanic, R. (2014). Marital Conflict and Health. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_4094
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