This analysis allowed us to identify which specific aspects
of marital interactions and combinations therein contribute to one's overall level of marital satisfaction, and how their relative contributions differ by gender.
This assumption invites an empirical investigation of the particular positive and
negative marital interactions that are most central to men's and women's global marital satisfaction.
The current study lays empirical groundwork for developing a theoretical framework for understanding
marital interaction patterns and the effects these patterns have on marital satisfaction.
We discuss ways that gender
shapes marital interactions, expectations, and perceptions, and the implications of our results for the well - being of married older adults.
Contemporary writings, adopting a gender relations framework, suggest ways that gender shapes interpersonal relations,
including marital interactions.
Most Obvious (nominated by Dan Evans): Science Daily with «Wives» Sleep Problems Have Negative Impact
on Marital Interactions, Study Finds»
A study with 130 newlywed couples was designed to explore
marital interaction processes that are predictive of divorce or marital stability, processes that further discriminate between happily and unhappily married stable couples.
Homish and Leonard (2007) referred to concordant drinking in couples as a «drinking partnership» in which the shared activity of alcohol consumption is indicative of
increased marital interactions, contributing to lower assessments of negative marital quality.
Children whose parents
showed marital interaction patterns predictive of divorce externalizing difficulties, but actual divorce / separation at Time 2 (3 years after the initial study) was not associated with externalizing behaviors at time 2.
In 1993, seeking to address the deficiency of research on the subject at the time, Drs. John Gottman and Lynn Katz performed a longitudinal study which examined the effects of
marital interaction styles on children.
Focusing on a collaborative alliance (or lack thereof), rather than betrayal, focuses on past and
present marital interactions, rather than on old promises that have little to do with recent (causal) history.
Future studies should explore the processes through which men and women factor
specific marital interactions into their global assessments, by using in - depth interviews, focus groups, or cognitive interviewing in tandem with closed - ended survey measures of marital quality.
A persistent question in marriage research is whether men and women experience similar levels of marital satisfaction and whether similar components of
marital interactions contribute to their global marital satisfaction (Jackson, Miller, Oka, & Henry, 2014; Spotts, Prescott, & Kendler, 2006).
As discussed in the previous section, a lack of empathy can have serious consequences
for marital interaction, where increases in personal distress and decreases in sympathy relating to lower relationship durations.
Given that more extreme aspects of marital discord are typically perpetuated by men (Archer, 2000), neglect of these more strongly worded dimensions of
negative marital interactions may lead to an understatement in the gender gap in marital appraisals.
One study found that high levels of negative emotion such as arguing or criticism and low levels of positive emotion such as indifference
during marital interactions were associated with lower levels of martial satisfaction.1 In other words, if a couple fights a lot, and does so in a not - so - nice way, they're not as happy in their marriage.
We predicted that those couples in which both spouses came from divorced families would show the greatest increase in marital instability and that couples from «mixed» backgrounds would show greater behavioral changes and increased
positive marital interactions.
The Gottman lab at the University of Illinois also studied the linkages
between marital interaction, parenting, and children's social development (with Lynn Katz), and later at the University of Washington involved studying these linkages with infants (with Alyson Shapiro).
They began discovering consistent sequences that differentiated happily married from unhappily married couples, which Dr. Gottman wrote about in a book
called Marital Interactions: Experimental Investigations.
[jounal] Rosen - Grandon, J. R. / 2004 / The relationship between marital characteristics,
marital interaction process, and marital satisfaction / Journal of Counselling and Development 82: 58 ~ 68
The researchers» observational assessments
of marital interaction during parents» conflict resolution discussions obtained when children were 5 years old predicted teachers» ratings on a survey of child behavioral problems measuring levels of internalizing and externalizing behaviors when the children were 8 years old.
[book] Christensen, A. / 1988 / Dysfunctional interaction patterns in couples, In Perspectives
on marital interaction / Mutilingual Matters: 31 ~ 52
This approach tends to be more efficient time-wise and also more effective in healing a sick marriage by improving the quality of
marital interaction.
Parental mental health and children's mental health adjustment: the quality of
marital interaction and parenting as mediating factors.
Patterns of
marital interaction and children's emotional development.