The summary must be typed and double-spaced, maximum 5 pages which includes a title page and a reference page following APA (American Psychological Association) format
Write a summary of the research article, “Marital quality and health: Implications for marriage in the 21st century”.
GUIDELINES:
The article for this assignment is reporting the results of meta-analysis between marital quality and physical health.
In your summary you should include the following:
1. An introduction to the purpose of the article. (2 MARKS)
2. A description of marital quality and health including:
• what marital quality is (1 MARK)
• how marital quality is measured (2 MARKS)
• how health is measure (1 MARK)
• how health outcomes were defined in the meta-analysis (3 MARKS)
3. Results of the meta-analysis for the health-outcome categories (3 MARKS)
• What is the practical significance of the results? (1 MARK)
4. A description of the association between psychological and biological mechanisms
and marital quality. (4 MARKS)
5. A discussion of the association between marital quality and personality and gender.
(4 MARKS)
6. Implications for the 21st century. (4 MARKS)
7. Limitations/future direction of research on marital quality and health. Implications for
the 21st century. (1 MARK)
Title page (1 MARK)
Reference page ( 1 MARK)