Wachs Karen, Cordova James V
Frances L. Hiatt School of Psychology, Clark University, Worchester, MA 01610, USA.
J Marital Fam Ther. 2007 Oct;33(4):464-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1752-0606.2007.00032.x.
This study tested the theory that mindfulness contributes to greater intimate relationship satisfaction by fostering more relationally skillful emotion repertoires. A sample of married couples was administered measures of mindful awareness, emotion skills, and marital quality. We hypothesized that mindfulness would be associated with both marital quality and partners' emotion skills and that the association between mindfulness and marital quality would be mediated by emotion repertoire skill. Findings suggested that emotion skills and mindfulness are both related to marital adjustment, and that skilled emotion repertoires, specifically those associated with identifying and communicating emotions, as well as the regulation of anger expression, fully mediate the association between mindfulness and marital quality. Theoretical implications are discussed.
本研究检验了这样一种理论，即正念通过培养更具关系技巧的情绪表现方式，有助于提高亲密关系满意度。对已婚夫妇样本进行了正念觉察、情绪技巧和婚姻质量的测量。我们假设正念与婚姻质量和伴侣的情绪技巧都有关联，且正念与婚姻质量之间的关联将由情绪表现方式技巧来介导。研究结果表明，情绪技巧和正念都与婚姻调适有关，并且熟练的情绪表现方式，特别是那些与识别和表达情绪以及愤怒表达调节相关的方式，完全介导了正念与婚姻质量之间的关联。文中讨论了理论意义。
