Sources of Marital Conflict in Five Cultures

Children’s Perceived Agency in the Context of Marital Conflict: Relations With Marital Conflict Over Time

Consistent with the bidirectional perspective on parent-child relations, the current study examined children’s perceptions of agency in the context of marital conflict. A storytelling task was completed by 115 five-year-old children, tapping perceived agency. These children and their mothers and fathers completed measures of marital conflict at two time points. Consistent with clinical theory a...

The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Instruction on Increasing of Marital Adjustment in Couples with Marital Conflict

Introduction: Marital maladjustment is one of the serious problem that serve as the cause of divorce and domestic violence in many families. The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of emotion regulation instruction on marital adjustment of couple with marital conflicts. Methods: The design of this research was experimental with pre-post tests and randomly assignment of subje...

Facial Expressions During Marital Conflict

A sample of 79 married couples were studied in 1983 in our laboratOlY engaging in a marital conflict discu&sion. Their facial expressions were coded from video tape using the Ekman and Friesen (1978) Emotion Facial Affect Coding System. This article doscribes the validity of this coding in several measurement domains: (a) the couple's perception of the relationship; (b) the prediction of the nu...

Do event-contingent diaries about marital conflict change marital interactions?

Recent increase in the use of diary measures has prompted questions about the effect completing diaries has on participants. After extensive training, married couples completed event-contingent diaries about their couple disagreements for 15 days, focusing on emotional and behavioral aspects of marital conflict. Serving as a control for placebo effects of participation, the diary group (n=110) ...

Structural Sources of Conflict