Relationship Among Differentiation of Self, Relationship Satisfaction, Partner Support, and Depression in Patients With Chronic Lung Disease and Their Partners

Lal, Arpita; Bartle‐Haring, Suzanne

doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2009.00167.x

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“…(20, 30) Highly differentiated individuals were able to quickly achieve emotional balance after eliminating the stress (31). Also, self-differentiation affects the marital adjustment and previous researchers have found a negative correlation between differentiation of self and depression (26, 32) Skowren examined the utility of Bowen family systems theory for predicting quality of marital life. In particular, the results showed that emotional cutoff and emotional reactivity predicted marital discord (28).…”

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“…It is also the case that those with higher levels of differentiation are expected to act from their values and sense of self rather than be influenced by the emotional reactivity of others. Thus, a more differentiated partner will be able to separate out the anxiety due to symptoms and will be able to act toward the other in ways that would maintain relationship satisfaction and be supportive of one another (26). Bowen says that low differentiation levels contribute to marital conflicts.…”

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confidence: 99%

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The Comparison of Self-differentiation and Self-concept in Divorced and Non-divorced Women who Experience Domestic Violence

Sheikh

Koolaee

Zadeh

2013

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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BackgroundA number of researches indicate that domestic violence (DV) causes abuse and vulnerability of women and children. Two components that can decrease violence and divorce are self-concept and self-differentiation.ObjectivesIn this research, we compare self-differentiation and self-concept in divorced and non-divorced women that experience domestic violence.Materials and MethodsTo achieve the goal of the research, 80 divorced women with domestic violence were chosen through available sampling and equalized with 80 non divorced women with domestic violence in aspect of age and education. They respond to instrument of self-differentiation (Skowron) and self-concept (Rodgers). Data was analyzed between the two groups using independent t-test. The significant level was (P < 0.01).ResultsThe findings indicated divorced women have more self-differentiation and self-concept than non-divorced women. In addition, there is a significant difference with respect to self-differentiation and self-concept in divorced and non-divorced women with domestic violence.ConclusionsThese results emphasize that self-differentiation and self-concept can be considered in premarital education (therapeutic interventions) to protective conditions against the occurrence of DV.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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The Comparison of Self-differentiation and Self-concept in Divorced and Non-divorced Women who Experience Domestic Violence

Sheikh

Koolaee

Zadeh

2013

Int J High Risk Behav Addict

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“…Their review also indicated that there is a lack of research to support Bowen's claim that his theory is universal. Lal and Bartle‐Harling () indicated that patients' differentiation of self did not predict their relationship satisfaction and recommended taking the patient's partner and the system into account. Schnarch and Regas () suggested that differentiation may not be a linear construct and that the Crucible Differentiation scale could be used to focus on different aspects of differentiation than does the Bowen theory.…”

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Validation of the Chinese Version of Differentiation of Self Inventory (C‐DSI)

Lam

Chan-So²

2013

J Marital Family Therapy

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Although the need to develop objective assessment tools in different cultures is well-recognized, there is a severe lack of objective measures about emotional functioning in the Chinese context. This project conducted three studies to validate the Chinese version of the Differentiation of Self Inventory (DSI). Study 1 looked at the factor structure, internal consistency, concurrent validity, and construct validity of the C-DSI. Study 2 examined the test-retest reliability of the C-DSI. Study 3 tested the discriminant validity of the C-DSI in a clinical sample and in a nonclinical sample and examined its correlations with the General Contentment Scale (GCS). The study results suggested that the C-DSI possesses good psychometric properties. Findings also indicated implications of divergent cultures and hinted at treatment implications--taking the familistic orientation and the Chinese meaning of self into consideration to understand the differentiation of self in the Chinese culture context.

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“…Whereas couples that were characterized by fusion and experienced higher levels of emotional reactivity as a result of fusion and cutoff, reported less satisfaction in their relationship. Lal and Bartle-Haring (2011) examined the relationship between differentiation of self and relationship satisfaction in patients with chronic lung disease and their partners. They found that partner's differentiation of self predicted partner's relationship satisfaction and that patient's relationship satisfaction was positively correlated with partner's relationship satisfaction.…”

Section: Differentiation and Relational Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%