English to Croatian Medical Mathematics & Statistics

A recent metaanalysis of these studies (Karney & Bradbury, 1995b) confirmed that lower levels of marital satisfaction at one time are associated with greater risks of marital dissolution later in the marriage (aggregate effect-size rs range from .14 to .42). Such associations are difficult to interpret, however, because these studies generally do not distinguish between initial levels of marital satisfaction and rates of change in satisfaction.