Work in Progress

On-going analyses include studies of (1) the relationships between ego development and psychological well-being, (2) intergenerational marital and family patterns, and (3) the results of parental intention to create families different from those in which they grew up. Linda is planning to return to Japan in 2013 to follow-up with the Japanese families who were interviewed in the 1980s. She is also working on a book manuscript:

Linda G. Bell. Married for Life.
Married for Life is a book about life long marriage. The primary focus is on the healthy, happy marriages. Research is from a prospective longitudinal study of couples who married around the end of World War II and had two or three children. The couples and their families were interviewed at mid-life when their children were adolescents; the couples were interviewed again 25 years later. Home interviews included questionnaires, taped marital interaction (later coded), history each mate’s family experience growing up and their evaluations of their parents’ marriages, and discussions of the stresses and supports the couples faced in their own marriage as well as their ideas about the ingredients of a good marriage.