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I.) Fundamental Issues and Historical Applications
A. Toward a Greater Understanding of the Cohabitation Effect: Premarital Cohabitation and Marital Communication.
1. Issue number 6. What is the most appropriate level of analysis for psychology? Position A: Molecular. Despite significant theories giving a relationship to premarital cohabitation and the likelihood of divorce, we have yet to definitively answer the underlying question of why the relationship exists. This study focuses not on the theories themselves, but on a function of marital life. Marital communication is a large part of marital development. If the breakdown of communication is significantly lower for couples that premaritally cohabitated this could correlate a retarded level in marital development.
2. The authors in this study hold a perspective of structuralism. By singling out the marital issue of communication we can attempt to develop a relationship between communication and......

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