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Rohrbaugh, Michael J.; Mehl, Matthias R.; Shoham, Varda; Reilly, Elizabeth S.; Ewy, Gordon A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
Recent research suggests that marital quality predicts the survival of patients with heart failure (HF), and it is hypothesized that a communal orientation to coping marked by first-person plural pronoun use (we talk) may be a factor in this. During a home interview, 57 HF patients (46 men and 16 women) and their spouses discussed how they coped…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Marital Satisfaction, Coping, Patients
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Langer, Amie; Lawrence, Erika; Barry, Robin A. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2008
The authors used a vulnerability-stress-adaptation framework to examine personality traits and chronic stress as predictors of the developmental course of physical aggression in the early years of marriage. Additionally, personality traits and physical aggression were examined as predictors of the developmental course of chronic stress. Data from…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Spouses, Aggression, Structural Equation Models
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DiLillo, David; Peugh, James; Walsh, Kate; Panuzio, Jillian; Trask, Emily; Evans, Sarah – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2009
Participants included 202 newlywed couples who reported retrospectively about child maltreatment experiences (sexual abuse, physical abuse, psychological abuse, and neglect) and whose marital functioning was assessed 3 times over a 2-year period. Decreased marital satisfaction at T1 was predicted by childhood physical abuse, psychological abuse,…
Descriptors: Spouses, Child Abuse, Marital Satisfaction, Longitudinal Studies
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Margolin, Gayla; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1983
Examines psychometric and normative questions related to the Areas of Change Questionnaire (AC) for 163 couples. Results offered support for the AC as a measure of overall marital adjustment, revealed differences according to sex and distress, and found that length of marriage influenced actual and perceived requests for change. (LLL)
Descriptors: Marital Satisfaction, Predictor Variables, Psychometrics, Spouses
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Johnson, Matthew D.; Cohan, Catherine L.; Davila, Joanne; Lawrence, Erika; Rogge, Ronald D.; Karney, Benjamin R.; Sullivan, Kieran T.; Bradbury, Thomas N. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Specific skills and affective expressions coded from the problem-solving interactions of 172 newlywed couples were examined in relation to 8-wave, 4-year trajectories of marital satisfaction. Effects varied as a function of whether husbands' versus wives' topics were under discussion and whether husbands' versus wives' satisfaction was predicted,…
Descriptors: Spouses, Attitude Change, Problem Solving, Marital Satisfaction
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Coppotelli, H. Catherina; Orleans, C. Tracy – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1985
Examined effects of naturally occurring partner support on smoking cessation maintenance with 125 newly abstinent, married women smokers. Partner facilitation emerged as the primary predictor of smoking cessation maintenance, accounting for 32 percent of the variance in outcome and identifying more than 80 percent successful and unsuccessful…
Descriptors: Factor Analysis, Females, Helping Relationship, Predictor Variables
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Snyder, Douglas K.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1993
Examined couples' response to marital therapy at termination and 4 years posttreatment for 55 couples receiving either behavioral or insight-oriented marital therapy. Couples were more likely to be divorced or maritally distressed four years posttreatment if intake measures reflected high levels of negative marital affect, poor problem-solving…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Counseling Techniques, Marriage Counseling, Outcomes of Treatment
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Whisman, Mark A.; Uebelacker, Lisa A.; Weinstock, Lauren M. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2004
Using path analysis and hierarchical linear modeling, the authors evaluated the associations between both partners' level of depression and anxiety, as measured by Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2) content scales, and both partners' level of marital satisfaction among married couples (N = 774) that participated in the MMPI…
Descriptors: Psychopathology, Gender Differences, Depression (Psychology), Anxiety
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Markman, Howard J. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1981
Couples planning marriage participated in a longitudinal study examining the predictive power of communication ratings. Intact couples (N=9) completed data at three follow-up points. Results indicated the more positively premarital couples rated their communication, the more satisfied they were with their relationship five-and-a-half-years later.…
Descriptors: Communication Problems, Communication Skills, Followup Studies, Interpersonal Relationship
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Schumacher, Julie A.; Leonard, Kenneth E. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 2005
Marital adjustment, verbal aggression, and physical aggression have long been associated in the marital literature, but the nature of their associations remains unclear. In this study, the authors examined these 3 constructs as risk factors for physical aggression during the first 2 years of marriage in 634 couples recruited as they applied for…
Descriptors: Marriage, Risk, Aggression, Spouses