Comments on: Predicting Divorce – What Matters, What Doesn’t? http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/predicting-divorce-what-matters-and-what-doesnt/ Explaining and Discussing Washington Family Law Sat, 17 Jul 2010 03:13:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: brookr http://decouplingblog.com/2009/07/predicting-divorce-what-matters-and-what-doesnt/comment-page-1/#comment-146 brookr Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:27:02 +0000 http://decouplingblog.com/?p=2783#comment-146 This study seems to just be done on a sample of the Australian population. I wonder how much these factors vary based on nationality? Jon Gottman has done very interesting clinical work on factors leading to divorce, resulting in an ability to predict which couples will separate with a 91% accuracy. He has put together a number of books that highlight the important factors, which mostly seem more related to interactions, rather than background or historical factors: http://www.gottman.com/research/abstracts/detail.php?id=3 This study seems to just be done on a sample of the Australian population. I wonder how much these factors vary based on nationality?

Jon Gottman has done very interesting clinical work on factors leading to divorce, resulting in an ability to predict which couples will separate with a 91% accuracy. He has put together a number of books that highlight the important factors, which mostly seem more related to interactions, rather than background or historical factors:

http://www.gottman.com/research/abstracts/detail.php?id=3

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