Communication Styles and Marital Satisfaction in Israeli and American Couples

Winkler, Iris; Doherty, William J.

doi:10.1111/j.1545-5300.1983.00221.x

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“…Why do we raise our voices when it does no good'? (p. 78) In contrast, Winkler and Doherty (1983) reported that, compared with Jewish couples in the United States, Jewish Israeli couples did not associate the amount o f anger expressed in their marital interaction with marital dissatisfaction. Gottman and Krokoff (1989) reported that, although anger was associated with lower concurrent marital satisfaction, it also was associated with increases in marital satisfaction over time.…”

Section: Two Models Of Negative Affect; Anger As a Destructive Enzotimentioning

confidence: 94%

Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions

Gottman

Coan²,

Carrère³

et al. 1998

Journal of Marriage and the Family

897

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A study with 130 newlywed couples was designed to explore rnarital interaction processes that are predictive of divorce or marital stability, processes that hrtlier discrin~irzate between happily and urzhappily married stable couples. We explore seven types of process models: (a) anger as a clarzgerou.~ emotion, (b) active listening, (c) negative affect reciprocity, (d) negative start-up by the wge, (e) de-e.scalation, (fi positive affect models, and (g) physiological soothing of the male. Support wa.s not ,found,for the rnodels of anger as a dangerous ernotiorz, active listerzing, or negative affect reciprocity. Support was ,found for n~odels of the husbarzd'.~ rejecting his wife's irzfluence, negative start-up by the wge, a lack of de-escalation of low intensity negative wge aflect by the husband, or a lack of de-escalation of high interz.sity hu.sband negative affect by the wife, and a lack ofphysiological .soothing of the male, all predicting divorce. Support was found for a contingent po.sitive affect model and,for balance n~odels (i.e., ratio models) of positive-to-rzegative affect predicting satisfaction arnong .stable coup1e.s. Divorce and stabilih were predicted with 83% accuracy and sati.Ffaction with 80% accuracy.

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Section: Two Models Of Negative Affect; Anger As a Destructive Enzotimentioning

confidence: 94%

Predicting Marital Happiness and Stability from Newlywed Interactions

Gottman

Coan²,

Carrère³

et al. 1998

Journal of Marriage and the Family

897

863

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“…Past research on cross-cultural variations in marital communication has found evidence for both cross-cultural differences (e.g., Winkler & Doherty, 1983) and similarities (e.g., Hooley & Hahlweg, 1989) in communication behaviors associated with marital distress. It is notable that all of the previous studies that have used observational methods to study marital communication have been conducted using Western samples.…”

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A cross-cultural examination of the relation of marital communication behavior to marital satisfaction.

Rehman¹,

Holtzworth‐Munroe²

2007

Journal of Family Psychology

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Numerous studies have examined the communication behaviors of Western, primarily North American, couples and have demonstrated a robust and reliable association between marital satisfaction and couple communication. However, there has been relatively less attention given to the generalizability of these findings to non-Western couples. To address this issue, the authors conducted an observational study of marital communication among couples from 3 different cultural groups: 50 White American couples, 52 Pakistani couples in Pakistan, and 48 immigrant Pakistani couples in America. The results show that positive and negative communication behaviors were associated with marital satisfaction within each of the 3 cultural groups. However, the American group's marital satisfaction was more strongly related to marital communication behaviors than was that of the Pakistani group and, to a lesser extent, the immigrant group.

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“…This study attempts to establish links between marital locus of control and marital problem-solving behavior. Research investigating the relation between locus of control and marital interaction behavior (Doherty & Ryder, 1979; Sabettelli et al, 1983; Winkler & Doherty, 1983) has produced enough promising results that further research using more specific measures of locus of control seems to be warranted.…”

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