Department of Psychology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2577, USA.
J Fam Psychol. 2011 Aug;25(4):541-50. doi: 10.1037/a0024507.
Research on marital interaction has focused primarily on couples in conflict contexts to understand better processes associated with concurrent and longitudinal outcomes such as marital stability and quality. Although this work has consistently revealed particular emotions (e.g., contempt) or behavioral sequences (e.g., demand/withdraw) predictive of later marital distress, it largely has neglected to take positive contexts into consideration. The present longitudinal study begins to address this gap in the literature by directly comparing newlywed behaviors from a conflict-resolution interaction with those from a love-paradigm interaction to predict relationship satisfaction and divorce proneness approximately 15 months later. Results showed that actor and partner negative (contempt) and positive (affection) emotions elicited in both positive (i.e., love) and negative (i.e., conflict) interaction contexts emerged as unique predictors of relationship quality and stability for both husbands and wives. Moreover, using a linear growth model, the temporal course of positive emotion during the love context, but not the conflict context, was predictive of later relationship satisfaction. Implications for future marital research and intervention are discussed.
婚姻互动的研究主要集中在冲突情境下的夫妻身上，以更好地理解与婚姻稳定性和质量等并发和纵向结果相关的过程。尽管这项工作一直揭示了特定的情绪（例如，轻蔑）或行为序列（例如，要求/回避）可以预测以后的婚姻困扰，但它在很大程度上忽略了积极的情况。本纵向研究通过直接比较解决冲突互动和爱情范式互动中的新婚行为，来预测大约 15 个月后的关系满意度和离婚倾向，从而开始解决文献中的这一空白。结果表明，在积极（即爱情）和消极（即冲突）互动情境中引发的夫妻双方的演员和伴侣的消极（轻蔑）和积极（喜爱）情绪，是夫妻双方关系质量和稳定性的独特预测因素。此外，使用线性增长模型，在爱情情境中积极情绪的时间进程，但不是冲突情境，可预测以后的关系满意度。讨论了对未来婚姻研究和干预的影响。
