Two Good Forgivers? Forgiveness as a Moderator of the Association between Similarity of Financial Values and Relationship Flourishing

Despite couples with similar financial values tending to experience higher relationship satisfaction, individuals with dissimilar spending tendencies often marry each other. Research has not yet established strategies for therapists to encourage for newlywed couples with dissimilar financial values....

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Published in:The American journal of family therapy 2024-03, Vol.52 (2), p.231-248
Main Authors: Saxey, Matthew T., LeBaron-Black, Ashley B., Yorgason, Jeremy B., Dew, Jeffrey P.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Couples
Financial values
Forgiveness
Husbands
Newlyweds
relationship flourishing
Relationship satisfaction
Therapists
Values
Wives
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Summary:Despite couples with similar financial values tending to experience higher relationship satisfaction, individuals with dissimilar spending tendencies often marry each other. Research has not yet established strategies for therapists to encourage for newlywed couples with dissimilar financial values. We examined associations between similarity of financial values and relationship flourishing among 1,486 different-sex newlywed couples. In these associations, we tested both husbands' and wives' forgiveness as moderators. Only wives' forgiveness significantly moderated associations between similarity of financial values and husbands' and wives' relationship flourishing. Therapists may consider encouraging forgiveness-especially for wives-in different-sex newlywed couples with dissimilar financial values.
ISSN:0192-6187
1521-0383
DOI:10.1080/01926187.2022.2087788