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