The current investigation was designed to examine the role of positive and
negative emotional expressivity in the marital relationship.
Not exact matches
Measures of dyadic
emotional expressivity (positive and
negative affect) and dyadic
emotional flexibility (transitions, dispersion, average duration) were derived from these interactions using state space grid analysis.
Therefore, a critical question remains whether there are differences between parent - child dyads with AD children and non-AD children in levels of dyadic
emotional expressivity (i.e., dyadic positive and
negative affect).
To capture the
emotional expressivity, we derived from GridWare the total duration in seconds of dyadic positive affect and dyadic
negative affect during father - child and mother - child interactions.