Sabatelli R M, Buck R, Dreyer A
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1982 Nov;43(5):1088-97. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.43.5.1088.
Nonverbal communication abilities were examined as mediators of martial complaints for a sample of 48 recently married couples. Based on social penetration theory, we predicted that couples cohabiting longer would be better at decoding their partners' nonverbal expressions than couples cohabiting a shorter time, that individuals married to accurate nonverbal communicators would evidence fewer martial complaints, and that individuals with fewer marital complaints would be better nonverbal communicators. The data suggest that nonverbal decoding abilities do not covary with relationship length, although spouses were better at decoding their partners' expressions than were a panel of judges. In addition, nonverbal sensitivity to one's spouse did not covary with martial complaints, although an internal analysis suggests that wives' ability to decode husbands poorly encoded messages covaries negatively with both his and her complaints. Finally, husbands married to wives who are good encoders had fewer complaints, whereas the reverse was found to hold true for the relationship between husbands' encoding abilities on wives' complaints.
我们以48对新婚夫妇为样本，研究了非言语沟通能力作为婚姻问题调解因素的情况。基于社会渗透理论，我们预测，同居时间较长的夫妻比同居时间较短的夫妻更善于解读伴侣的非言语表达，与非言语沟通准确的人结婚的个体婚姻问题会更少，而婚姻问题较少的个体非言语沟通能力会更强。数据表明，非言语解码能力与关系持续时间并无相关性，不过配偶比一组评判人员更善于解读伴侣的表达。此外，对配偶的非言语敏感度与婚姻问题并无相关性，尽管一项内部分析表明，妻子解读丈夫编码不佳信息的能力与他和她的问题均呈负相关。最后，娶了善于编码的妻子的丈夫问题较少，而丈夫的编码能力与妻子问题之间的关系则相反。
