Index
- Adams-Lepley Personnel Audit, 100-105
- Adjustment, to married life, 198
- Adolescence, 40
- Age and marriage,
- Emotional, 40-41
- Evidence of emotional immaturity, 41-42
- Mental, 39
- Physiological, 38
- Sexual, 39
- Vocational, 39
- Alcohol and marriage, 159
- Alibi artists, 150
- Arousal stage, 191
- Assortative mating, 28
- Bachelors, percentage of, 15
- Beauty, 89, 94-95
- Bowman, Dr. Henry, 48
- Children, as values, 22
- Coitus, 191
- Complaints of husbands and wives, 99
- Contraceptives, 191
- Dating, 40
- Disorderly mates, 152
- Divorce, 15
- Rate of, 26-27
- Emotional maturity, 41-43
- Emotions, test, 72-73
- Engagement, 183
- Purpose, 184
- Revealing your past during, 187
- Role of sex during, 186
- Erogenous zones, 58
- Escapists, 151
- Fetishism, 71
- First night of marriage, 196-197
- Flirts, 153
- Frigidity, 55, 56, 67
- Guilford-Martin Personnel Inventory, 100
- Hasty marriages, 185
- Home making and marriage, 165-166
- Homosexuality, 70
- Honeymoon, 196-198
- Husbands, happy and unhappy, 98
- Hymen, 191
- Infatuation, characteristics of, 48
- Inferiority complex, 90
- In-law complications, 152-153
- Jealous mates, 146
- Jealousy, test, 154-155
- Jobs and marriage happiness, 167-168
- Prestige of, 167
- Lang, Richard O., 167
- Law-abiding husbands, 158
- Life’s problems, 22
- Love,
- Ability for, 51-52
- At first sight, 49
- Conditions necessary for, 50
- Defined, 47-50
- Sex and, 55
- Test of love, 53-54
- Marriage,
- Basic needs filled by, 95-97
- Best age for, 25, 38, 43
- Chances of, 23
- Common goals in, 203
- Companionship and, 21
- Crucial traits for happiness in, 99
- Customs, 15
- Differences and, 140-145
- Effects of war on, 25-26
- Expectancy of happiness in, test, 37
- Mixed, 139
- Mixed personalities, 140-141
- Mixtures to beware in, 141-145
- Qualifications, 156-164
- Prediction of happiness scale, 100
- Prospects for, 16
- Psychological barriers, 16-18
- Reasons against, 15-18
- Reasons for, 19-20
- Stabilizing influence of, 21
- Suggestions for marital happiness, 133-136
- Mate-matching, 124-126
- Test for couples, 137
- Mates,
- Acceptable, 27-28
- Background of, 30
- City Census table, 34
- Critical, 149
- Desirable, 104-105
- Education of, 29
- Financial status of, 29
- Geography favorable for, 31
- Job of, 30
- Making over, 147-148
- Range of eligibility, 28-31
- Shortage of, 25
- State age Census table, 32-33
- Mating, problems of selection, 41-44
- Problems of selection, 91-94
- Traits wanted, 87-89
- Meeting people of the opposite sex, 83-85
- Menstruation, 58
- Mismating, cause of, 26
- Necking, 65
- Nervous mates, 148
- Neurosis, test of, 163-164
- Obstacles to sexual happiness, 194
- Orgasm, percentage experiencing, 64, 192-193
- Pedophilia, 71
- Penn State Counseling Service, 147-201
- Personality test, 81, 82
- Petting, 65, 67-69
- Exploitive, 68
- Setting limits, 71
- Physical handicaps, 17
- Physical health, 64, 158
- Need for physical examination, 162-163
- Popularity with opposite sex, 75-80
- Suggestions for girls, 81
- Powers, John, 89
- Pregnancy, 191
- Premarital sexual relations, 63
- Arguments for and against, 65-67
- Percentage of, 63
- Reasons for increase, 64
- Previous divorce, 161
- Promiscuity, 67-68
- Psychoneurosis, 158-160, 180-181
- Pyle, Ernie, 175
- Relatives, clinging, 152
- Responsibility in marriage, 159
- Sadism, 71
- Self-confidence, importance of, 90
- Services, Counseling, 156
- Sex,
- Abnormal outlets, 70-71
- Desire and its origin, 55-56
- Development, 56-57
- Importance of, 189-190
- Maladjustment, 56-57
- Peak of sexual vigor, 65
- Release from tensions, 69-70
- Repressions unlearned, 60-61
- Tensions, 68
- Three phases of sexual experience, 191-192
- Sexual adjustment, 190
- Tension reduction, 200
- Terman, Dr. L. M., 63, 98-100, 193
- Veterans,
- Desire for marriage, 21
- Precautions to consider, 180
- Subconscious conflicts, 175
- Traits gained by war experience, 174
- War injuries, 178-179
- Vocational trouble makers, 168-173
- Voyeurism, 70
- Wedding, 195
- Wives, happy and unhappy, 98