Scholz O B, Collin H
Z Gerontol. 1982 Jul-Aug;15(4):234-40.
Starting from the connections between the conflict-solving behaviour of marital couples and the quality of their partnership it can be stated that for this scientifically as well as practically important topic no empirical findings exist, which are related to marriages of the older generation. 48 distressed and 31 nondistressed couples married more than 20 years as well as 29 young couples married less than 5 years were examined by a variant of the revealed difference technique with regard to their use of five operationally defined conflict-solving tactics. It was found that in all three groups the solution of the experimentally-induced conflict was most probable by using the tactics "assimilation to the opinion of the wife" and "confirmation of a spontaneous agreement", and most unlikely by using the tactics "deviation from the initial position". The typical strategies of conflict-solving for each sample were identified by means of the statistical procedure of lag analysis. Our results suggest that the conflict-solving strategies of the two distressed marital groups are more comparable than those of the two samples long-term married. The gerontological and clinical psychological conclusions are discussed.
从夫妻冲突解决行为与其伴侣关系质量之间的联系出发，可以说，对于这个在科学和实践上都很重要的主题，不存在与老一辈婚姻相关的实证研究结果。通过一种揭示差异技术的变体，对48对结婚超过20年的苦恼夫妻和31对非苦恼夫妻以及29对结婚不到5年的年轻夫妻在使用五种操作性定义的冲突解决策略方面进行了研究。结果发现，在所有三组中，通过“认同妻子的意见”和“确认自发达成的共识”策略，实验引发的冲突最有可能得到解决，而通过“偏离初始立场”策略解决冲突的可能性最小。通过滞后分析的统计程序确定了每个样本的典型冲突解决策略。我们的结果表明，两个苦恼婚姻组的冲突解决策略比两个长期婚姻样本的更具可比性。文中还讨论了老年学和临床心理学方面的结论。
