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Davidson, Bernard; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1983
Based upon responses to questionnaires by 162 university married-housing couples, equity theory was used to explain the relations between affective self-disclosure and marital adjustment. Found that the greater discrepancy in partners' affective self-disclosure, the less was an individual's marital adjustment. (Author/RC)
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Disclosure, Emotional Adjustment, Interpersonal Relationship
McDonald, Gerald W.; Osmond, Marie Withers – 1980
Little effort has been made to systematically assess the determinants and consequences of marital jealousy which affect marital, familial and extra-familial expectations, interactions and behavior. A preliminary attempt to rectify this omission provides a conceptual/theoretical perspective on jealousy dynamics in marriage. Marital jealousy, a…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Affective Measures, Emotional Response, Interpersonal Relationship