Money Matters in Marriage: Financial Concerns, Warmth, and Hostility Among Military Couples

Donald Bruce Ross; Catherine Walker O’Neal; Amy Laura Arnold; Jay A. Mancini

doi:10.1007/s10834-017-9522-y

Money Matters in Marriage: Financial Concerns, Warmth, and Hostility Among Military Couples

Donald Bruce Ross, Catherine Walker O’Neal, Amy Laura Arnold, Jay A. Mancini

Family Sciences

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Abstract

The effects of military couples’ (N = 219) financial management concerns on marital quality were investigated using an actor-partner interdependence model based on the family stress model. The influence of the mediating role of warm and hostile marital interactions was also investigated after accounting for multiple indicators of the military context, which are usually significant in the lives of military families. Individuals with higher levels of concern about financial management expressed less warmth and more hostility towards their partner. In turn, individuals exhibiting higher levels of warmth had spouses who reported greater marital quality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	572-581
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Family and Economic Issues
Volume	38
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10834-017-9522-y
State	Published - Dec 1 2017

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Funding This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (NIFA Award No. 2009-48680-06069, Author D, Principal Investigator). The authors are Donald Bruce Ross, M.S., Catherine Walker O?Neal, Ph.D., Amy Laura Arnold, Ph.D., and Jay A. Mancini, Ph.D. of the University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia. The authors acknowledge this manuscript has not been published elsewhere nor has it been simultaneously submitted for publication with another journal. This study was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (NIFA Award No. 2009-48680-06069, Author D, Principal Investigator). All the author declares that they have no conflict of interest.

Funders	Funder number
U.S. Department of Agriculture
National Institute of Food and Agriculture	2009-48680-06069
Georgia College & State University
M.S.I. Foundation

Keywords

Economic distress
Family economics
Interdependence
Relationship interaction
Relationship quality

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Social Psychology
Economics and Econometrics

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