Marital locus of control and marital problem solving.

Miller, P C; Lefcourt, Herbert M.; Holmes, John G.; Ware, Edward E.; Saleh, Wendy E.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.51.1.161

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“…A more context-specific locus of control measure may be more suited to help reveal the relationship between marital satisfaction and locus of control (Miller et al, 1986). Second, there was no relationship between positive affect and workaholism found in this study; neither was there a relationship between positive affect and marital disaffection, as in the previous study examining wives of workaholics .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

The Relationship Between Workaholism and Marital Disaffection: Husbands' Perspective

Robinson¹,

Flowers²,

2006

The Family Journal

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Previous research suggests that wives of workaholics experience greater marital estrangement and less positive feelings than do wives of nonworkaholics. This study examined husbands' perception of marital disaffection and the relationship to their wives' workaholic tendencies. A random sample of 272 male members of the American Counseling Association were mailed a survey that examined their spouses' workaholic behavior, marital disaffection, locus of control, and positive and negative affects. The results suggest that workaholism is positively related to martial disaffection ( p < .01). The most important workaholism domains for predicting martial disaffection were overcontrolling behavior ( r = .36) and impaired communication ( r = .38). The results underscore the need for greater clinical awareness of marital problems associated with workaholic tendency.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 66%

The Relationship Between Workaholism and Marital Disaffection: Husbands' Perspective

Robinson¹,

Flowers²,

2006

The Family Journal

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“…Related findings were obtained by Sullaway and Morell (1990), showing that wives' Type B, rather than Type A, personality (+P-A-D) was related to greater marital satisfaction. Miller, Lefcourt, Holmes, Ware, and Saleh (1986) found positive relations between internal locus of control (+D) and marital satisfaction for both husbands and wives.…”

Section: Findings Relating Personality To Marital Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 84%

Personality and Temperament Correlates of Marital Satisfaction

Blum

Mehrabian

1999

Journal of Personality

128

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Participants (166 married couples, ages 20-85) were administered marital satisfaction and Pleasantness-Arousability-Dominance temperament scales. Participants with more pleasant and more dominant temperaments, and those who had mates with more pleasant temperaments, were happier in their marriages. Temperament accounted for substantially more variance (30%-34%) in marital satisfaction than effect sizes reported in the personality/ marital satisfaction literature. Because Pleasantness is a general index of psychological adjustment, findings implied that better adjusted persons, and those with better adjusted mates, were more satisfied in marriage. Unpleasant and submissive (i.e., depressed) wives were highly dissatisfied in marriage. Although intermate temperament similarity on Pleasantness and Dominance (but not on Arousability) correlated positively with marital satisfaction, similarity was a weaker and somewhat misleading predictor of satisfaction in comparison to findings when individual temperament scores were treated as separate variables. Also, weak results showed individuals selected mates with temperaments similar to their own. Marital happiness, satisfaction, and stability have been explored in relation to a great variety of personality characteristics. Nevertheless, because of difficulties in interrelating findings obtained with numerous

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“…Within the conflict literature, problem solving is generally seen as the most constructive conflict management strategy (Blake & Mouton, 1970, 1981Carnegie Miller, Lefcourt, Holmes, Ware, & Saleh, 1986), because of its focus on own outcomes while Á at the same time Á respecting social relationships.…”

Section: Locus Of Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%