L’« inexpressivité » masculine : des mythes et des faits

The purpose of this study was to describe the elderly marital partners' perceptions of conjugal support and coping strategies and the relationship between these perceptions and their well-being. A multistage sample of 135 community-dwelling elderly couples, 65 years of age and over, was drawn from users and non-users of the health and social systems in a large metropolitan area. A series of questionnaires, presented within an interview format, were used to measure the variables. Each spouse was separately interviewed at home. Pairedt-tests revealed that husbands tended to perceive more support from their spouse and to use less external social support than wives when coping with daily problems. Intraclass coefficients of correlation between husbands' and wives' coping strategies were only low to moderate. However, for both marital partners, results revealed significant positive correlations between availability and reciprocity of conjugal support and well-being and a negative association between conflict within the conjugal relationship and well-being. Only two cognitive coping strategies, namely reframing and active appraisal were positively related to the well-being of both spouses. Repeated measures analysis of variance revealed that congruency of perception between husbands and wives had an effect only on wives' well-being. These findings suggest psychosocial interventions and are discussed in relation to previous studies and future research.

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Le pouvoir conjugal et l'évitement des conflits chez les hommes.

Turgeon

Boisvert²

1997

Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science / Revue canadienne des

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ResumePlusieurs etudes indiquent que les hommes evitent davantage les discussions conjugales conflictuelles que les femmes, particulierement dans les couples en detresse. Trois explications ont ete avancees, jusqu'a maintenant, pour rendre compte de ces differences entre les sexes : la plus grande reactivite physiologique des homines en situation de conflit conjugal, la socialisation differentielle des sexes et les differences de pouvoir entre les femmes et les hommes. L'objectif principal de cette etude consiste a examiner l'hypothese selon laquelle le pouvoir conjugal constitue un bon predicteur du retrait des hommes. Cent trente-deux couples completent des questionnaires evaluant l'ajustement conjugal, le retrait et le pouvoir conjugal. L'hypothese principale est testee a l'aide d'une analyse de regression. Les resultats montrent que l'ajustement conjugal predit 44% de la variance dans le retrait des hommes, alors que le pouvoir conjugal n'en predit aucune proportion significative. Ces resultats sont discutes en fonction des differentes hypotheses suggerees pour rendre compte des differences entre les sexes dans les situations de conflit conjugal.

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L’« inexpressivité » masculine : des mythes et des faits

Abstract: Les Québécoises : dix ans plus tard Volume 15, numéro 1, juin 1990 URI : id.erudit.org/iderudit/031548ar

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