Stanley Scott M, Whitton Sarah W, Sadberry Sabina Low, Clements Mari L, Markman Howard J
Center for Marital and Family Studies, Department of Psychology, University of Denver, University Park, CO 80208, USA.
Fam Process. 2006 Sep;45(3):289-303. doi: 10.1111/j.1545-5300.2006.00171.x.
We investigated the prospective associations between attitudes about sacrifice and marital outcomes in 38 married couples. Specifically, a measure of satisfaction with sacrifice was proposed to be a potent longitudinal predictor of marital adjustment and distress based on existing cross-sectional studies and also to mediate the association between commitment and marital adjustment. Results demonstrated that attitudes about sacrifice discriminated between couples who would become distressed versus nondistressed over time. Sacrifice attitudes also predicted the maintenance of relationship adjustment over time even better than earlier relationship adjustment. Finally, sacrifice attitudes mediated the link between commitment and relationship adjustment for husbands, but not wives. Implications for intervention are discussed.
我们调查了38对已婚夫妇中关于牺牲的态度与婚姻结果之间的前瞻性关联。具体而言，基于现有的横断面研究，对牺牲的满意度被认为是婚姻调适和困扰的有力纵向预测指标，并且还能调节承诺与婚姻调适之间的关联。结果表明，随着时间的推移，关于牺牲的态度能够区分出哪些夫妇会陷入困扰，哪些不会。牺牲态度还能更好地预测随着时间推移关系调适的维持情况，甚至比早期的关系调适情况还好。最后，牺牲态度在丈夫而非妻子中调节了承诺与关系调适之间的联系。文中还讨论了干预的意义。
