Marital Communication Styles in Conflict : scale development and validity testing
| Autor: | IWAFUJI, Hiromi |
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| Jazyk: | japonština |
| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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| Zdroj: | 人間文化創成科学論叢. 11:183-193 |
| ISSN: | 1344-8013 |
| Popis: | application/pdf 紀要論文 This article describes a series of studies on the development and validity testing of the scale of marital communication styles in conflict, self-report and partner-evaluate measures of verbal and nonverbal behaviors against spouses ’ demands. Pilot studies were conducted in order to determine the situation that triggers conflict and the items of the scale. Then the data provided by 366 married couples (the matrimonial duration ranged from 0 to 15 years) was submitted to factor analyses. A four factor model explained 59.9% of the valiance in self-rating and 62.5% in partner-evaluation, labeled soothing, coercion, constructiveness and inattentiveness respectively. A confirmatory factor analysis using data from 228 couples expecting their first child confirmed the structure of the model, which demonstrated that the scale has good concurrent validity across couples with/without children. Testing the discriminant validity of the scale regarding associations with adult attachment styles, most items discriminated clearly between spouses high and low in adult attachment dimensions (relational anxiety/avoidance): signifi\ cantly higher “coercion” and “inattentiveness” , and lower “constructiveness” of the marital communication styles were identified in high anxiety/ avoidance groups than in low counterparts. Wives did not show, however, significant effects between high and low avoidance groups. |
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