Emotional Expressiveness and Marital Adjustment in Ecuador

Ingoldsby, Bron B.; Horlacher, Gary; Schvaneveldt, Paul L.; Matthews, Mark

doi:10.1300/j002v38n01_04

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“…In the present analysis, it is hard to discern whether culturally bound definitions of marital satisfaction affected the present results, as only one of the marital satisfaction measures represented in the present analysis has demonstrated crosscultural validity among several cultures. The DAS displayed high reliability in collectivist cultures (SHEK 1999;KWON and CHOI 1999;INGOLDSBY et al 2005). Further, LUCAS et al (2008) have been able to demonstrate the cultural invariance of the MARQ.…”

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Marital satisfaction and the impact of children in collectivist cultures: A meta-analysis

Dillon¹,

Beechler²

2010

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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Abstract. Many studies have established that the presence and number of children have a negative impact on marital satisfaction. Those that maintain an evolutionary perspective may find this result surprising. It is argued that a couple that has successfully reproduced together ought to have heightened satisfaction. The majority of studies confirming this negative impact children bring have been on samples of participants from individualist cultures such as the United States and Canada. This severely limits the generalizability of this finding. In order to determine the relevance of cultural type, collectivist and individualist, we conducted a meta-analysis that aggregated the findings of fifteen studies that contained samples from collectivist cultures. All studies used in this meta-analysis contained samples from outside the United States. The purpose of this presentation is to discuss the findings from our meta-analysis on the impact of children on marital satisfaction. The present meta-analysis found a small, negative relationship between children and marital satisfaction (d = -.11, r = -.05) that is significantly lower than another meta-analysis conducted using samples from individualistic cultures. Maternal age and type of measure were significant moderators. It may be that collectivist cultures foster shared childcare within the extended family, and this arrangement buffers stressors that people from individualist cultures are more likely to face.

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Marital satisfaction and the impact of children in collectivist cultures: A meta-analysis

Dillon¹,

Beechler²

2010

Journal of Evolutionary Psychology

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“…Gender differences in social values and regulatory goals are important because the expression and sharing of positive emotions is strongly related with social adjustment (Ingoldsby, Horlacher, Schvaneveldt, & Matthews, 2005). Gratitude is an other-focused emotion, and men may find gratitude to be less familiar and more discomforting compared with women.…”

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Gender Differences in Gratitude: Examining Appraisals, Narratives, the Willingness to Express Emotions, and Changes in Psychological Needs

Kashdan

Mishra

Breen

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Journal of Personality

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Previous work suggests women might possess an advantage over men in experiencing and benefiting from gratitude. We examined whether women perceive and react to gratitude differently than men. In Study 1, women, compared with men, evaluated gratitude expression to be less complex, uncertain, conflicting, and more interesting and exciting. In Study 2, college students and older adults described and evaluated a recent episode when they received a gift. Women, compared with men, reported less burden and obligation and greater gratitude. Upon gift receipt, older men reported the least positive affect when their benefactors were men. In Studies 2 and 3, women endorsed higher trait gratitude compared with men. In Study 3, over 3 months, women with greater gratitude were more likely to satisfy needs to belong and feel autonomous; gratitude had the opposite effect in men. The willingness to openly express emotions partially mediated gender differences, and effects could not be attributed to global trait affect. Results demonstrated that men were less likely to feel and express gratitude, made more critical evaluations of gratitude, and derived fewer benefits. Implications for the study and therapeutic enhancement of gratitude are discussed.

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“…Gross and John (1995) examined four different cultures, namely, Asian, African-American, Caucasian, and Spanish cultures, and their study's results showed that Asians were the least determined to express their feelings. Ingoldsby (1980) studied the relation between emotional expression and dyadic adjustment by means of a comparison between samples from America and Colombia, and his results showed a relation between emotional expression and dyadic adjustment in the American samples, but no correlations in the Colombian samples.…”

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“…However, some studies indicate the exact opposite (Johnson et al, 2005;Lavee & Ben-Ari, 2004). This can be explained by the fact that marital satisfaction can change, depending on whether emotions are positive or negative (Gur-Aryeh, 2010) and on how the culture of the society in question affects tendencies for emotional expression (Ingoldsby, Horlacher, Schvaneveldt, & Matthews, 2005). Planalp (2003) considers emotional expression to be the dark area of close relationships, and states that more studies need to be conducted on this subject.…”

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“…Planalp (2003) considers emotional expression to be the dark area of close relationships, and states that more studies need to be conducted on this subject. Similarly, Ingoldsby et al (2005) state that many studies have been conducted on emotions in western culture and that it is necessary to conduct research on different marriage models in diverse cultures from different, developing countries. Within this context, this study is a very important contribution to current research, since it examines emotional expression and marital satisfaction based on a sample selected from Turkish families, which represent a non-western culture.…”

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Emotional Expression and Spousal Support as Predictors of Marital Satisfaction: The Case of Turkey

2015

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This study examines the relationship between spousal support and the ability to express feelings of marital satisfaction, and the extent to which spousal support and the ability to express feelings can predict marital satisfaction. Research was conducted in accordance with general survey models. The study group comprised 195 married couples (N = 390) residing in one of the biggest cities in central Anatolia. The Marital Life Scale, Spousal Support Scale, and Emotional Expression Scale were applied to the married couples and a Personal Information Form was provided. The data analysis used the Pearson moment correlation coefficient, multiple regression analysis, and the Kendall correlation coefficient. The results indicated that there was a relationship between all the sub-dimensions of spousal support and marital satisfaction; moreover, spousal support was found to be a significant predictor of marital satisfaction. While a significant correlation was found between marital satisfaction and the expression of proximity emotion, one of the sub-dimensions of the Emotional Expression Scale, no significant correlation was found between the expression of negative and positive emotions. In addition, according to the results of the multiple regression analysis, the expression of feelings did not predict marital satisfaction.

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Emotional Expressiveness and Marital Adjustment in Ecuador

Cited by 14 publications

References 32 publications

Marital satisfaction and the impact of children in collectivist cultures: A meta-analysis

Marital satisfaction and the impact of children in collectivist cultures: A meta-analysis

Gender Differences in Gratitude: Examining Appraisals, Narratives, the Willingness to Express Emotions, and Changes in Psychological Needs

Emotional Expression and Spousal Support as Predictors of Marital Satisfaction: The Case of Turkey

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