Whose Marital Adjustment—Hers, His, or Theirs?

Dean, Dwight G.; Lucas, Wayne L.

doi:10.2466/pr0.1978.43.3.978

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“…One unresolved issue in the assessment of marital satisfaction is how best to characterize the couple's happiness, since measurement is most frequently based on spouses' individual responses. Though some authors (Dean & Lucas, 1978) suggest that either the individual's or the couple's joint score will give the same information, Snyder, Wills, and Keiser (1981) found an average correlation of just .37 between spouse's scores on the subscales of the Snyder Marital Satisfaction Inventory.…”

Section: Defining and Measuring Marital Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Power and satisfaction in marriage: A review and critique.

Gray-Little¹,

Burks²

1983

Psychological Bulletin

214

151

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Empirical studies of the relation between husband-wife power interactions and marital satisfaction are critically examined. Both self-report and observational measures of marital power interactions have tended, in general, to suffer from similar difficulties, including overly simplistic conceptualizations of power processes and limitations in the measurement of marital power and marital satisfaction. Despite these weaknesses, this group of studies has been fairly consistent in indicating that marriages in which the wife appears to be dominant are the most likely to be unhappy, whereas highest levels of satisfaction are more often found among egalitarian couples. Another group of studies focusing on the bases of marital power suggests that coercive control techniques may be related to marital dissatisfaction. This review also includes a discussion of the kind of expanded framework that future studies will need in order to make additional theoretical and substantive contributions to the understanding of power and satisfaction in marriage.This review critically examines research on the association between marital power and marital satisfaction. The literature on marriage and the family reflects a major concern with marital power; however, theoretical as well as methodological problems have hampered study in this area, as exemplified by the weakness both of conceptual and of operational definitions of marital power (Beck-

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Section: Defining and Measuring Marital Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Power and satisfaction in marriage: A review and critique.

Gray-Little¹,

Burks²

1983

Psychological Bulletin

214

151

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“…I, es résultats des recherches sont moins congruents face aux manifestations affectives positives. Plusieurs chercheurs identifient néanmoins les styles de communication positifs comme étanl des corrélate stables de l'ajuslement dyadique (Dean & Lucas, 1978; Boyd & Roach, 1977; Murphy & Mendleson, 1973). Lorsque confrontés à une difficulté, les conjoints heureux semblent adopter plus de comportements orientés vers la résolution de problémes tels la génération dc solutions alternatives (Bélanger, Dulude, Sabourin & Wright, sous presse), l'ouverture aux compromis (Raush, Barry, Hertel, & Swain, 1974.…”

Section: L'ajustement Marital: Déinitlon Et Mesureunclassified

Les développements récents dans l'étude de la communication et de la détresse maritale: évolution ou révolution?

Bélanger¹,

Sabourin²,

Wright³

1993

Canadian Psychology / Psychologie canadienne

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“…The more common practice is to study the individuals comprising that relationship (e.g., husband and wife; e.g., Rollins & Galliger, 1979). Spanier and Cole's (1976) call for studying marital adjustmentTather than satisfaction is worth heeding, as they conceptualize adjustment in dyadic terms, stressing marital differences, interpersonal tensions;, fjyaHif cohfsioni nnfl consensus on matters of importance to marital functioning It should be recognized, though, that the actual measurement of dyadic properties is no less problematical in the marital unit than it is in the parent-infant unit (Dean & Lucas, 1978;White & Brinkerhoff, 1978). One possible approach is to conceptualize marriage as a romance (emphasizing infatuation and sexuality), a friendship (emphasizing mutual interest, concern, and supportiveness), or a partnership (emphasizing instrumental efficiency) to see if the birth of a child differentially affects different types of relationships.…”

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Early human experience: A family perspective.

Belsky¹

1981

Developmental Psychology

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Recent research on the father-infant relationship is briefly reviewed. Those studies documenting changes that take place in parent and infant behavior when the mother-infant dyad is transformed into the mother-father-infant triad are judged especially important to advancing the study of early human experience, since they highlight the influence of the marital relationship on the parent-infant relationship. In so doing, these investigations of "second-order effects" in parent-infant interaction document the fact that inclusion of the father in the study of infancy creates a family system comprised of marital and parent-child relations. Serious consideration of this contribution underscores the need for "wedding" the disciplines of family sociology and developmental psychology in their respective concerns for marital and parent-infant relationships. A transactional framework for examining early experience in the family system is proposed to meet this need. It draws specific attention to the fact that parenting affects and is affected by the infant, who both influences and is influenced by the marital relationship, which in turn both affects and is affected by parenting. Evidence from the disciplines of family sociology and developmental psychology is reviewed in terms of this framework to illuminate direct and indirect pathways of influence within the family system during infancy and to stimulate interdisciplinary investigation.Students of early experience have long recognized the significance of the mother-infant relationship, but only recently have they come to study the father-infant relationship. This delay in attention stems in large measure from the psychoanalytic ancestry of developmental psychology, theories of infant-mother attachment derivative of this heritage, and cultural traditions that minimized the significance of the infant's relations with its "second parent."It is significant to note that when students of infancy first began to study father, they traversed the same ground covered years earlier by investigators of mothering: Father This manuscript has benefited greatly from thoughtful reviews provided by Michael Lamb, Alison ClarkeStewart, and Michael Lewis and several anonymous reviewers. I am most indebted, however, to Frank Pedersen. He not only stimulated this work through his own empirical and scholarly efforts, but he has provided generously of his time and energy in helping me to clarify my own thinking.Requests for reprints should be sent to

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Whose Marital Adjustment—Hers, His, or Theirs?

Cited by 11 publications

References 2 publications

Power and satisfaction in marriage: A review and critique.

Power and satisfaction in marriage: A review and critique.

Les développements récents dans l'étude de la communication et de la détresse maritale: évolution ou révolution?

Early human experience: A family perspective.

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