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How to Pick a Mate: The Guide to a Happy Marriage

Chapter 50: Index
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This guide offers practical, research-informed advice on selecting a life partner, combining psychological tests, checklists, and counseling insights to assess personal readiness, distinguish infatuation from lasting love, and evaluate compatibility. It examines sexual development and intimacy, common personality pitfalls, family-background and occupational influences, and the traits linked to marital satisfaction, while warning against mismatches and high-risk character types. Readers are shown how to test themselves and prospective mates, interpret results, and prepare emotionally and practically for marriage and early married life. Appendices list further reading and counseling resources to support couples before and after marriage.

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