Ways of Giving Benefits in Marriage

@article{Clark2010WaysOG,
  title={Ways of Giving Benefits in Marriage},
  author={Margaret S Clark and Edward P Lemay and Steven M. Graham and Sherri Painter Pataki and Eli J. Finkel},
  journal={Psychological Science},
  year={2010},
  volume={21},
  pages={944 - 951}
}
Couples reported on bases for giving support and on relationship satisfaction just prior to and approximately 2 years into marriage. Overall, a need-based, noncontingent (communal) norm was seen as ideal and was followed, and greater use of this norm was linked to higher relationship satisfaction. An exchange norm was seen as not ideal and was followed significantly less frequently than was a communal norm; by 2 years into marriage, greater use of an exchange norm was linked with lower… 
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