This study prospectively examined a social interactional model of husband marital aggression. Young couples were assessed at the time of their 1st marriage with respect to marital conflict styles, alcohol consumption, hostility, gender identity, perceived power inequity, and history of family violence. Couples were reassessed at their 1-year anniversary, and information concerning marital aggre...

Under what conditions do spouses have more “voice” or bargaining power to get what they want from their marriages? The objective of this research project is to explore how spouses’ economic resources affect marital bargains and outcomes. The main hypothesis is that spouses with more resources are able to strike bargains about marital roles that they perceive to be more fair and that lead to mor...

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...

Mothers' and fathers' reports of marital conflicts in the home were obtained (n = 1,638 and 1,281 conflicts, respectively), including conflicts in front of the children (n = 580 and 377, respectively). Participants were 116 families with children 8 to 16 years old (M = 10.82 years, SD = 2.17; 58 boys, 58 girls). Children's emotional responses indicated distinctions between distressing conflict ...

The spillover hypothesis posits that negative emotions and behavioral patterns in marital conflicts influence parenting quality and children’s adjustment, through increasing of harsh and incoherent discipline and diminished involvement and affection. Moreover conflicts focused on childrearing issues are particularly distressing for children with often show emotional and behavioral problems. The...

Objective Using a short-term longitudinal design, this study examined the concurrent and longitudinal relationships among familial socioeconomic status (SES; i.e., family income and maternal and paternal education levels), marital conflict (i.e., constructive and destructive marital conflict), parenting practices (i.e., positive and negative parenting practices), child social competence (i.e., ...

background: c onflicts are inevitable among couples. in fact, couples show various levels of independence and correlation in common decisions they make and cooperation they have. high levels of conflicts would lead to family dissociation. the present study tried to evaluate the relation between sex education and on reducing the overall marital conflict score and its dimensions such as relations...

The aim of this study is to determine the effects of conflict management styles on the quality of the marital relationship. Descriptive research method was descriptive and correlational research design was a path analysis model. Therefore, parents, students, 464 of whom married the Isfahan region of the cluster were single step. This questionnaire marital quality and conflict management style q...