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Running Head: MARITAL SATISFACTION

Cultural Difference and Conflict for Marital Satisfaction

Cultural difference and conflict for marital satisfaction

Introduction

· Define the concept of cross-cultural marriages (Pagel and Meade, 2016).

· Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of cross-cultural marriages (Kim et al, 2017).

· Look at how cultural differences result in conflict (Pagel and Meade, 2016).

· Analyze how cultural differences affect marital satisfaction (Raley et al, 2015).

· Analyze how conflict affects marital satisfaction (Bradbury et al, 2016).

Body

· Show how cultural differences can result in conflict and how this can, in turn, affect marital satisfaction and how to prevent that.

Cultural differences

· What are the cultural differences (Stahl et al, 2017)?

· Explore the negative and positive effects of cultural differences (Gutierrez et al, 2016).

· Explain and illustrate how we can bridge the gap and overcome cultural differences in everyday life (Gutierrez et al, 2016).

Conflict

· Define the concept of conflict (Straus, 2017).

· Analyze how it affects our day to day life and focus more on how it affects marital life (Straus, 2017).

· Look at ways of conflict management and resolution (Vayrynen, 2019).

Marital satisfaction

· What is marital satisfaction (Lavner et al, 2016)?

· Examine how can we achieve marital satisfaction (Lavner et al, 2016)?

· Examine the barriers to marital satisfaction (Lavner et al, 2016).

· Examine how we can overcome cultural differences in marriage (Raley et al, 2015).

· Analyze how we can resolve conflicts in marriage (Bradbury et al, 2016).

Conclusion

· Summarize the importance of achieving marital satisfaction.

· Show how the three concepts, that is, cultural difference, conflict, and marital satisfaction relate and affect each other.

· Give a summary of how we can bridge these gaps in order to achieve marital satisfaction.

References

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Gutiérrez, E. D., Shutova, E., Lichtenstein, P., de Melo, G., & Gilardi, L. (2016). Detecting cross-cultural differences using a multilingual topic model.  Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics,  4, 47-60. Retrieved from https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/tacl_a_00082

Kim, J., Park, S. H., Kim, M., & Kim, S. Y. (2017). Exploring issues and strengths of cross-cultural marriage among Korean immigrants.  Health care for women international,  38(10), 1095-1114. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/07399332.2017.1360301

Lavner, J. A., Karney, B. R., & Bradbury, T. N. (2016). Does couples' communication predict marital satisfaction, or does marital satisfaction predict communication?.  Journal of Marriage and Family,  78(3), 680-694. Retrieved from https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jomf.12301

Pagel, M., & Meade, A. (2016). BAYESIAN ESTIMATION OF CORRELATED EVOLUTION ACROSS CULTURES: A CASE STUDY OF MARRIAGE SYSTEMS AND WEALTH TRANSFER AT MARRIAGE Mark Page/and Andrew Meade. In  The evolution of cultural diversity (pp. 245-253). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315418612/chapters/10.4324/9781315418612-39

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Stahl, G. K., Miska, C., Lee, H. J., & De Luque, M. S. (2017). The upside of cultural differences.  Cross Cultural & Strategic Management. Retrieved from https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/CCSM-11-2016-0191/full/html

Straus, M. A. (2017). Measuring intrafamily conflict and violence: The conflict tactics (CT) scales. In  Physical violence in American families (pp. 29-48). Routledge. Retrieved from https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781315126401/chapters/10.4324/9781315126401-4

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