Patterns of Newlywed Marriage

Separation-individuation as a family transactional process in the transition to parenthood

“…The balance between individual autonomy and couple mutuality -in this study referred to as marital individuation -has been found to have roots in the ways in which individuals resolve the separationindividuation process in the family of origin (Fitzpatrick, 1977;Goodrich, Ryder, & Raush, 1968). In turn the combination of mutuality and autonomy, differentiation, and relatedness in the marital relationship strongly affects the ways in which couples adapt to the transition to parenthood (Cowan, Cowan, Coie, & Coie, 1978;Gladieux, 1978;Goodrich et al, 1968;Raush, Goodrich, & Campbell, 1963;Shereshefsky & Yarrow, 1973).…”

An empirical couple typology based on differentiation

“…One important factor was closeness to the husband's family, and another was "closeness with both families, and in particular with that of the wife" (p. 61). Goodrich et al (1968) also reported that the major source of variation among their couples was "closeness to their own parents ~ (p. 385). In their cluster analysis of both clinic and nonclinic samples, Snyder and Smith (1986) found that "disruption in the family of origin" (p. 141) was one of the eight dimensions that were most important in producing their couple types.…”

An Evaluative Review of Family Interaction Research

“…It may be too early, in general, to judge what is certainly trivial, let alone judge what is unquestionably significant. Also, some methodologies, even though in hindsight they had serious flaws, are historically significant as models because they were efforts to break with tradition and to explore new territory (e.g., Haley [97]). Furthermore, it is self‐evident that an investigator must make choices — his interests, methods, sample populations, and so on — but that is not an issue here.…”

“…Others study the relationship between the “family‐as‐a‐unit” (or the “couple‐as‐a‐unit”) and the “individual‐as‐a‐unit” (e.g., Reiss [177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 183, 184, 185, 186, 187] and Bauman and Roman [21]). Still others concentrate on the “family‐as‐a‐system” (e.g., Haley [97, 98, 99, 100, 101] and Jackson [115, 117]). Other studies are designed to operationalize and test empirically some existing concept or theory, for example Sojit's [226, 227] attempt to operationalize the double‐bind theory or Cheek's [50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55] efforts to operationalize Parson's theoretical framework.…”

“…More narrowly limited behavioral tasks, generating both verbal interaction and outcome scores, are also employed. Haley, for example, developed a button‐pushing task for several family members (97). Reiss has developed a pattern‐recognition task (178); Wild has used the Object Sorting Test (266); and Bing has developed a conjoint family drawing technique (37).…”