| Summary: | <p>By this research authors tried to find any psychological features of spouse’s experience of some normative family crises. 24 married couples from Novosibirsk, aged 20 to 41 years, take a part in this research. There were 8 couples at the «Childless couple stage» and 16 couples at the stage «Family with young children».<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Purpose </strong>is an identifying of psychological characteristics of some normative family’s crises<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Methodology </strong>based on using of psychodiagnostic testing with Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scale III (FACES III), test of Role expectations of partners (N.Volkova), test of the interaction of the spouses in a conflict situation (Yu.E.Aleshina, L.Ya.Gozman, E.M.Dubovskaya) and method of mathematical statistics with the Spearman rank criterion and the non- parametric Mann-Whitney U test.<strong></strong></p><p><strong>Results</strong> describe some psychological characteristics of spouses at the «Childless couple stage» and at the stage «Family with young children», include difference between men and women in this experience. The most important at the «Childless couple stage» is an attitude to expression of jealousy. If the family endures the crisis, spouses have an active negative reaction on an expression of jealousy. At the stage «Family with young children» at the forefront there are money disagreements, which prove an existence of family crisis from our point of view. <strong></strong></p><p><strong>Practical implications </strong>are in the area of practical and scientific activity of family psychologists.</p><p><strong>DOI: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-7-14">http://dx.doi.org/10.12731/2218-7405-2013-7-14</a></strong></p>
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