Which Came First, the Money or the Sex? Bidirectional, Indirect Associations between Financial Management Behaviors and Sexual Satisfaction among Newlywed Couples.

Scholars have established connections between how married couples navigate their finances and their sexual relationship. For example, financial management behaviors are associated with sexual satisfaction among newlywed couples. However, we know very little about the direction of the association between financial management behaviors and sexual satisfaction.

Bedtime and the Budget: Longitudinal, Actor-Partner Connections between Sleep Quality and Financial Management Behaviors in Newlywed Couples.

Research from the American Psychological Association suggests that approximately 67% of U.S. adults are getting more or less sleep than desired, and over 80% of U.

Money lies and extramarital ties: Predicting separate and joint occurrences of financial deception and extramarital infidelity.

Introduction: Although spouses frequently financially deceive each other (MFD; i.e., marital financial deception), few studies have examined this relationship behavior.

Ten Years of Marriage and Cohabitation Research in the Journal of Family and Economic Issues.

I reviewed the 36 marriage and cohabitation studies from the articles published between 2010-2019. Nearly all of the studies used quantitative methods, and two-thirds of them used publicly available nationally-representative data. The studies fell into roughly five, unevenly sized groups: family structure, relationship quality, division of labor/employment, money management, and an "other" category.

Skin Carotenoid Response to a High-Carotenoid Juice in Children: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Background: Previous studies have shown an increase in serum carotenoid status among children when fed carotenoids. This study looked at the effect and dose-response of a known amount of carotenoid consumption on change in skin carotenoid status among children.

Methods: Participants were children aged 5 to 17 years from Cache County, UT (n=58).

Lifestyle behavior pattern is associated with different levels of risk for incident dementia and Alzheimer's disease: the Cache County study.

Objectives: To identify distinct behavioral patterns of diet, exercise, social interaction, church attendance, alcohol consumption, and smoking and to examine their association with subsequent dementia risk.

Design: Longitudinal, population-based dementia study.

Setting: Rural county in northern Utah, at-home evaluations.

Fatherhood and Men's Lives at Middle Age.

This paper uses data on 2,024 men who were followed through the third wave of the National Survey of Families and Households to examine the implications of fatherhood experiences for men's involvement in altruistic social activities at middle age. We find that middle-aged men (ages 45-65) who at some point in their lives become fathers are significantly more likely to have altruistically oriented social relationships and be involved in service organizations compared to men who have never become fathers. Furthermore, it appears that the defining aspect of the effect of fatherhood is the level of engagement with children while they are growing up.

The Role of Religion in Adolescence for Family Formation in Young Adulthood.

This paper examines the role of religion in adolescence for shaping subsequent family formation. Data were drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (n=13,895). We explored the role of three dimensions of religious life-affiliation, attendance, and religious fervor, both singly and in combination for the transition to either marriage or cohabitation.