Citation

Wadsworth AP, Wilson W, Barker HR. J. Stud. Alcohol 1975; 36(5): 634-644.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1975, Rutgers Center of Alcohol Studies)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

239285

Abstract

Alcoholic husbands and their wives generally agreed that the major aspects of marital happiness dealt with the quality of interpersonal relations. "Undesirable vices (excessive gambling, drinking, etc.)" ranked first as contributing to marital unhappiness while their absence was ranked 27.5 by the husbands and 9.5 by the wives as contributing to marital happiness. The elimination of undesirable habits may resolve much marital misery but it does not necessarily follow that as unhappiness decreases happiness will increase.

Language: en