Given the emphasis placed on marital conflict related to finances in Conger’s model, a necessary next step is to examine the nature of marital disagreements over money in relation to other disagreements as they occur in families’ homes. In fact, little is known about whether conflicts in the home over finances are similar to other topics of conflict, or have distinctive characteristics that support particular links between money and family stress. However, studies investigating relations between family stress and marital conflict have typically examined marital conflict in general rather disagreements about finances ( Conger et al., 1994) further, no studies have documented marital conflict over finances in the home context. Family stress due to economic pressure is linked to a wide array of family adjustment problems, including a linkage between economic pressure and marital functioning through marital conflict ( Conger, Rueter, & Elder, 1999). A notable exception is Conger’s family stress theory, which posits that economic pressure due to insufficient financial resources creates stresses linked to heightened marital conflict ( Conger, Ge, Elder, Lorenz, & Simons, 1994). ![]() However, despite the general acceptance that money is a significant source of marital conflict, there has been little conceptual development of why this is the case. ![]() The present study focused on the issue of financial conflict, due to its centrality to couple and family daily life, and further addressed the common wisdom that money as a topic of disagreement is particularly troublesome for marriages.
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