Type A behavior and marital interaction: Hostile-dominant responses during conflict

Sanders, Jill D.; Smith, Timothy W.; Alexander, James F.

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“…Because external sources of social support, role captivity, and loss of self were not measured, possible explanations for the relation between restriction in outside activities and spousal NA await further research. The potential association between spousal negative mood and critical and avoidant responses toward the patient is consistent with studies illustrating a link between an individual's cynical hostility and conflict in the family context (Sanders et al, 1991;Smith, Pope, Sanders, Allred, & O'Keefe, 1988). The findings provide preliminary support for our hypothesis that the quality of the marital relationship moderated associations between functional impairment and spousal negative behaviors.…”

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“…The literature on social relationships of individuals with high levels of trait hostility may provide some support to the link between one aspect of negative mood, hostility, and critical interpersonal behavior. These studies have shown that hostility is associated with generally high levels of interpersonal conflict in the context of work, marriage, and family of origin (Houston & Kelly, 1987; Sanders, Smith, & Alexander, 1991). The link between emotional distress and the healthy partner’s unsupportive treatment of the ill partner in the context of a debilitating illness has been less studied.…”

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Spousal negative responses to cancer patients: The role of social restriction, spouse mood, and relationship satisfaction.

Manne¹,

Alfieri²,

Taylor³

et al. 1999

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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This cross-sectional study examined perceptions of spousal negative behaviors in 219 cancer patients. A mediational model was proposed to explain why a spouse might respond negatively to an ill partner because of greater restriction on activities as functional impairment increases. A moderating effect of the spouse's marital satisfaction assessed 3 months before other study measures was also proposed. Results provided support for the proposed model. The relationship between increasing patient functional impairment and spousal negative behaviors was medicated by greater restriction in spouse activities, as well as spousal negative mood. A marginally significant moderating effect for marital satisfaction was found. Although these results must be replicated with a prospective study, the findings begin to shed light on why spouses might respond in negative ways to an ill partner.

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Spousal negative responses to cancer patients: The role of social restriction, spouse mood, and relationship satisfaction.

Manne¹,

Alfieri²,

Taylor³

et al. 1999

Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology

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“…Medalie and Goldbourt (1976) in a 5‐year prospective study of marital quality and health, found that a wife's love and support was associated with a reduced risk for the development of angina pectoris in husbands. Sanders, Smith, and Alexander (1991) reported a relationship between marital hostile/dominant behavior and Type A or Type B personality pattern in both husbands and wives. Brown and Smith (1992) found a strong relationship between hostility during marital interaction and heart rate reactivity.…”

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Decade Review: Observing Marital Interaction

Gottman¹,

Notarius²

2000

J of Marriage and Family

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This article reviews the advances made in the decade of the 1990s in observing marital interaction. Many technological advances in data collection, including synchronization of physiology, behavior, and cognition, and advances in data analysis such as sequential analysis, have yielded new understanding and advances in prediction of marital outcomes. The advances have also included the study of developmental processes, including the transition to parenthood and the study of midlife and older marriages. Central advances have been made in the study of affect and the study of power and in their integration. This advance has included the mathematical modeling of interaction using nonlinear difference equations and the development of typologies. There has been an added focus on health outcomes and the bidirectional effects of marriages on children. There has been an expansion of the study of marital interaction to common comorbid psychopathologies. Most important has been emergent theorizing based on the interaction of behavior, perception, and physiology, as well as their predictive power.Observational research plays a major role in research on marriage, both for purposes of description and for building theories of the mechanisms underlying central phenomena occurring within

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“…4. Hostility and Type‐A Personality: Sanders, Smith, and Alexander (1991) reported a relationship between marital hostile/dominant behavior and Type A or Type B personality pattern in both husbands and wives. Brown and Smith (1992) found a strong relationship between hostility during marital interaction and heart rate reactivity.…”

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Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

Gottman¹,

Notarius²

2002

Family Process

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In this article we review the advances made in the 20th century in studying marriages. Progress moved from a self-report, personality-based approach to the study of interaction in the 1950s, following the advent of general systems theory. This shift led, beginning in the 1970s, to the rapid development of marital research using a multimethod approach. The development of more sophisticated observational measures in the 1970s followed theorizing about family process that was begun in the decade of the 1950s. New techniques for observation, particularly the study of affect and the merging of synchronized data streams using observational and self-report perceptual data, and the use of sequential and time-series analyses produced new understandings of process and power. Research in the decades of the 1980s and 1990s witnessed the realization of many secular changes in the American family, including the changing role of women, social science's discovery of violence and incest in the family, the beginning of the study of cultural variation in marriages, the expansion of the measurement of marital outcomes to include longevity, health, and physiology (including the immune system), and the study of comorbidities that accompany marital distress. A research agenda for the 21st century is then described.

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Type A behavior and marital interaction: Hostile-dominant responses during conflict

Cited by 9 publications

References 32 publications

Spousal negative responses to cancer patients: The role of social restriction, spouse mood, and relationship satisfaction.

Spousal negative responses to cancer patients: The role of social restriction, spouse mood, and relationship satisfaction.

Decade Review: Observing Marital Interaction

Marital Research in the 20th Century and a Research Agenda for the 21st Century

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