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Book A Study of Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment

Download or read book A Study of Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment written by Billy Joe Davenport and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Perspectives on Marital Interaction

Download or read book Perspectives on Marital Interaction written by Patricia Noller and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 1988 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the subject of marital interaction. It brings together the work of international scholars and is divided into four sections: communication as a means by which couples manage everyday life; communication as a means of expression of emotion; communication and problem-solving; coping with relationships outside marriage. The text is interdisciplinary and looks at the issue from various angles: social psychology, clinical psychology and communications. Particular attention is paid to the emergence of sex differences in interaction patterns and the experience of counselling plays an important part.

Book Marital Adjustment and Agreement in Marital Communication

Download or read book Marital Adjustment and Agreement in Marital Communication written by Kathleen Larson and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Identity and Intimacy in Marriage

Download or read book Identity and Intimacy in Marriage written by Susan Krauss Whitbourne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the research on which this book reports, we have been given the unique opportunity to explore the complex nature of two of the most important issues in the lives of adults: identity and intimacy. It is with deep gratitude that we give credit to the 80 individuals in our sample who allowed us to explore these processes in their lives. Our purpose in writing this book was, in some ways, a modest one. Both of us believed that research on the Eriksonian concept of intimacy was deficient in that it was limited to the reports of individuals about them selves. We maintained that this kind of research could provide only a narrow, and probably biased, view of the intimacy development of individ uals. By obtaining complementary responses to the intimacy interview from both partners in a marital relationship, we hope to pave a new path that fu ture researchers in this area will follow. Beyond this methodological advance, we intended that this book's theoretical focus could put a new perspective on the well-trodden path of research on marriage. This more ambitious gaal is one that we faced with some trepidation. The literature on marital adjustment and satisfaction is vast and potentially overwhelming.

Book A Study of Communication and Empathy in Marital Adjustment

Download or read book A Study of Communication and Empathy in Marital Adjustment written by Marianne Weeks Elliott and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Marital Communication

Download or read book Marital Communication written by Douglas Kelley and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marital Communication provides insight into healthy relationships for those who want to better understand key communication processes between long-term, committed, romantic partners. Writing with students, teachers, researchers, practitioners, and couples in mind, this book uses marriage as a proving ground to understand the processes necessary to build and maintain positive romantic relationships. Marital Communication develops the idea that marriage is a distinctive communication context (long-term, romantic, and committed) that uniquely influences various relationship processes. It focuses on three essential elements needed for healthy marital functioning: positive everyday communication, intimacy and love, and productive conflict management. The book finishes by describing how these essential elements change across the life-span, by examining marriage’s dark side, and by focusing on the use of forgiveness to ensure a healthy longevity. Soundly documented with current research and written in a manner accessible to student and researcher alike, Marital Communication is an ideal supplement for current courses focusing on family communication, interpersonal and relational communication, and conflict. It is also an excellent, resource for the relationship professional.

Book Between Husbands and Wives

Download or read book Between Husbands and Wives written by Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1988-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These are valuable research results for people working with married couples. . . . Fitzpatrick's work offers benefits to those trying to understand more about marital communication. The fact that it has a clear theoretical sense, that it builds on a very large data set, that it is supported by a consistent research agenda, and that it welcomes new validation make it an important tool for further research.

Book Enriching Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment of Couples from India Living in the United States

Download or read book Enriching Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment of Couples from India Living in the United States written by Olaganatha P. Vijayalakshmi and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage enrichment workshop enabling the participants to increase their communication and problem solving skills, and the prevention of future marital distress through an educational experience. Marital communication and marital adjustment scores were obtained from an experimental group consisting of 16 married Indian couples living in the United States who attended a marriage enrichment workshop. These scores were compared with those scores derived from 16 married Indian couples living in the United States who participated in a marriage enrichment workshop at a later date. Nineteen hypotheses were generated which assumed that couples participating in a marriage enrichment workshop would experience a significant increase in their level of marital communication and marital adjustment. The five-session workshop was conducted on five consecutive Saturdays, the duration of each session being three hours. The format for the workshop included the exercises designed by Hendrix (1988) to improve communication skills and practice new relationship skills. The importance of creating a more loving and supportive relationship was emphasized in the workshop. The instruments used to study the dependent variables were the Marital Communication Inventory and the Marital Adjustment Test. The statistical treatment applied was Analysis Of Variance with repeated measures. Subjects were tested on the first day of the workshop, the last day of the workshop, and finally five weeks after the marriage enrichment workshop. The results indicated that the marriage enrichment workshop had moderately significant positive effect on marital communication and marital adjustment. The level of communication and adjustment showed consistent statistically significant increase over time (five week delay) after the workshop. In addition, the results established positive correlation between marital communication and marital adjustment. Finally, the content of the workshop designed by Hendrix (1988) was much appreciated by all participants and they identified remarkable similarity between the the Western thought and the Eastern culture.

Book A Descriptive Study of Marital Communication Marriage Role Expectations and Marital Adjustment in an Inmate Prison Population

Download or read book A Descriptive Study of Marital Communication Marriage Role Expectations and Marital Adjustment in an Inmate Prison Population written by Dennis Paul Murphy and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Effects of a Home Based Audio Cassettee Marriage Enrichment Course on Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment

Download or read book The Effects of a Home Based Audio Cassettee Marriage Enrichment Course on Marital Communication and Marital Adjustment written by Larry D. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study investigated the effects of a home-based, audio cassette marriage enrichment course on marital communication and marital adjustment. The marriage enrichment course evaluated in this study consisted of two audio cassette tapes, each containing two sessions of approximately 45 minutes in length, and one work booklet. The course contained exercises emphasizing the development of communication skills, encouragement of self-disclosure, learning of empathy skills, and the setting of personal and mutual goals. The unique aspects of the course were the home-based setting in which the couples completed the program, and the self-enclosed audio cassette nature of the course. The subjects consisted of 24 Protestant, married couples residing in a medium sized western United States city. A pretest, posttest control group experimental design with a one month follow-up was formulated consisting of one experimental group and a no-treatment control group. Twelve hypotheses were generated predicting that the subjects who participated in the audio cassette course would experience a significant increase in their level of marital communication and marital adjustment at the posttest and at a one month follow-up test. The dependent variables were the scores on the Marital Communication Inventory (Bienvenu, 1969), and the Locke-Wallace Short Form Marital Adjustment Test (Locke & Wallace, 1959). Analysis of Covariance was used to evaluate the data with the pretest serving as the covariate in each analysis. The results of the study indicated that the experimental group, relative to the control group, made no significant changes in the directions hypothesized as a result of participation in the audio cassette marriage enrichment course. The medium used to present the marriage enrichment course, the quantity of material presented in the course, and the home-based nature of the program were discussed as possible reasons for the failure of the course to effect any significant changes.

Book Communication and Marital Satisfaction in Japanese and Caucasian American Intermarried Couples

Download or read book Communication and Marital Satisfaction in Japanese and Caucasian American Intermarried Couples written by Yuko Iwamoto Franklin and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of the study was to investigate the nature of communication in intercultural marriage between Japanese and Caucasian Americans; examining how cultural differences are manifested in communication styles and how these differences affect relationships. A dual methodology was applied to explore these questions. First, two tests designed to assess level of communication in-marriage (Marital Communication Form) and marital satisfaction (Locke and Wallace Marital Adjustment Test) were translated and distributed to a large sample (n=240) of Caucasian Americans, Japanese (in Japan), and mixed couples (in the United States). Then, face-to-face interviews were conducted with six interculturally married couples, selected to represent either 'good communicators' or 'poor communicators' based on their results on both tests. Quantitative analyses of the questionnaires point towards major differences between American and Japanese cultures in these areas: Perception of marriage (including mate selection, gender role expectations, and concepts of happiness and intimacy) and communication styles and content (including verbal/nonverbal and expression of affection). In this context, in-depth interviews of intermarried couples were conducted and analyzed. Four general areas pertaining to intermarriage provided the framework for questioning: 1) factors leading to the marriage; 2) marital adjustment; 3) cultural differences and conflict; and 4) managing the conflict. The purpose of the interviews was to obtain an understanding of what actually happens when two people of different ethnic cultural backgrounds marry, and to discover strategies developed by couples to cope with cultural differences. The four areas of questioning are discussed through vignettes taken from the married lives of both good and poor communicators. The results of the study show that the more one knows of one's spouse's culture, the better the communication, and that for mixed marriages in the United States, marital satisfaction is contingent on having Japanese spouses speaking English to an adequate degree. As a preliminary and exploratory study, the research has provided some answers about the complexity and multi-dimensionality of communication and marital satisfaction in intercultural relationships"--Leaves iii-iv.