University of South Carolina, Barnwell College, Department of Psychology, Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
J Soc Psychol. 2013 Mar-Apr;153(2):196-211. doi: 10.1080/00224545.2012.719941.
Spousal discrepancy theory posits that partners with wide personality differences are at risk for marital distress. In this study, we assessed links between partner personality and interpersonal characteristics and marital distress in 244 couples who sought marital therapy. The sample was divided into three subgroups according to marital duration. Longer-married couples reflected significantly less impulsive, exploitive, and insensitive characteristics than couples in either shorter or intermediate marriages. Couples' marital distress was linked to larger discrepancies in personal distress, impulsivity, interpersonal insensitivity, and self-centered characteristics. While husbands' marital distress was linked to partner differences in personal distress and to impulsive, narcissistic, and competitive characteristics, wives' marital distress was primarily linked to partner discrepancies in self-centeredness.
婚姻伴侣差异理论认为，个性差异较大的伴侣容易出现婚姻困扰。本研究评估了 244 对寻求婚姻治疗的伴侣的伴侣个性与人际特征和婚姻困扰之间的联系。该样本根据婚姻持续时间分为三个亚组。与较短或中等婚姻的夫妇相比，较长婚姻的夫妇表现出的冲动、剥削和麻木不仁的特征明显较少。夫妻的婚姻困扰与个人困扰、冲动、人际不敏感和以自我为中心特征的更大差异有关。丈夫的婚姻困扰与伴侣在个人困扰以及冲动、自恋和竞争特征上的差异有关，而妻子的婚姻困扰主要与伴侣以自我为中心的差异有关。
