AUTHOR=MacEacheron Melanie TITLE=Marital Surname Change and Marital Duration Among Divorcées in a Canadian County JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=12 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647942 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.647942 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Women’s marital surname change has been discussed as comprising one possible signal of intention to remain married, and may be perceived as such, and valued, by husbands. Here, the practice was investigated as a potential predictor of marital duration among couples who went on to divorce. An archival analysis was based on a search of all available, opposite-sex divorces filed over an 8-month period in a Canadian county. Among couples (