Pediatric Prevention Research Center, Wayne State University School of Medicine.
J Fam Psychol. 2013 Oct;27(5):806-16. doi: 10.1037/a0034113. Epub 2013 Sep 9.
Prior research has indicated that partners' standards for their couple relationships are associated with their levels of marital satisfaction, both in terms of similarity between standards and the degree to which partners are able to resolve differences in their standards constructively. However, little is known about processes through which couples effectively cope with conflicting relationship standards. Furthermore, most research on relationship standards has been conducted in Western countries, and there is a need for more information about the role of this form of cognition in Asian and other cultures. In the present study, relationship standards and communication patterns were examined in relation to marital satisfaction among 297 community couples in a northern city in mainland China. Results indicated that the similarity of relationship standards of members of real couples was significantly higher than randomly matched male-female pairs. A hypothesized conceptual model predicting marital satisfaction from partners' similarity of relationship standards and communication patterns was tested using structural equation modeling. Similarity of relationship standards can affect couple's marital satisfaction indirectly, through perceived communication patterns. The interdependence between husbands' and wives' aspects of relationship functioning also are examined and discussed.
先前的研究表明，伴侣对夫妻关系的期望标准与他们的婚姻满意度有关，这体现在标准的相似性以及伴侣建设性地解决标准差异的程度上。然而，对于夫妻如何有效地应对冲突的关系标准这一过程，我们知之甚少。此外，大多数关于关系标准的研究都是在西方国家进行的，因此需要更多关于这种认知形式在亚洲和其他文化中的作用的信息。在本研究中，我们在中国北方一个城市的 297 对社区夫妻中考察了关系标准和沟通模式与婚姻满意度之间的关系。结果表明，实际夫妻成员的关系标准相似性显著高于随机匹配的男女对。通过结构方程模型，检验了从伴侣关系标准和沟通模式的相似性预测婚姻满意度的假设概念模型。关系标准的相似性可以通过感知的沟通模式间接影响夫妻的婚姻满意度。还检验和讨论了丈夫和妻子在关系功能方面的相互依赖性。
