Affect and Status Dimensions of Marital Adjustment

Fineberg, Beth L.; Lowman, Joseph

doi:10.2307/351039

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“…Fineberg (1973) found strong support in these interaction ratings for many of Leary's and of Carson's (1969) ideas concerning complementarity. These data are reported elsewhere (Fineberg & Lowman, 1975).…”

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confidence: 84%

Measurement of Family Affective Structure

Lowman¹

1980

Journal of Personality Assessment

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The Inventory of Family Feelings (IFF), a self-administered measure of interpersonal affect, maps a family's affective structure showing patterns of conflicted relationships and alliances. Three studies demonstrate that IFF scores have high reliability, construct and concurrent validity, and potential utility in family research. Families with identified patients and couples in marital therapy score less positively toward each other than control families, most of the negative affect in such families centers on and emanates from the identified patients, IFF scores are positively correlated with ratings of affect based on audio recordings of marital interaction and with Locke Wallace Short Marital Adjustment Test scores, and IFF scores and MMPI pathology indicies are negatively correlated.

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confidence: 84%

Measurement of Family Affective Structure

Lowman¹

1980

Journal of Personality Assessment

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“…The 25 satisfied couples in this sample had a mean couple satisfaction score of 115.3 (SD = 9.9), while the 31 unsatisfied couples had a mean of 80.9 (SD = 12.2). The means for satisfied and unsatisfied groups are comparable to averages reported in other studies of couples divided on the basis of marital satisfaction (14, 27). For purposes of description, means for the two groups will be briefly summarized, followed by a report of the statistical findings from the regression analyses.…”

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confidence: 80%

“…Results of Marital Adjustment Test validation studies indicate that it is a valid and reliable self‐report measure of marital satisfaction. Data from studies reporting scores of satisfied and dissatisfied samples interpret scores of around 100 as indicating average satisfaction with the marriage (14, 27).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in Marital Communication Patterns

White

1989

Family Process

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This study examined conflict-resolution interactions of couples, and related marital satisfaction to sequential and nonsequential communication patterns. Couples' satisfaction with marriage has been differentiated on the basis of the degree of coercive versus affiliative communication between partners. Results of this study indicate that this pattern differs, however, for individuals within couples on the basis of gender. Females and males were found to demonstrate different styles of response to dissatisfaction in marriage; men assume a coercive stance toward their partners while women take an affiliative position. Drawing on systemic and gender-difference theoretical perspectives, these patterns are interpreted as attempts by individuals with different world views to resolve conflict. A view is discussed whereby systems and gender differences can be integrated into a unified conceptual formulation upon which to base future development in research and therapeutic interventions.

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“…For example, Kirchler (1988) found that satisfied couples talk about more subjects, and they display more sensitivity and understanding than do dissatisfied couples. Further, Fineberg and Lowman (1975) found that adjusted couples express more affection than do maladjusted couples.…”

Section: Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 96%