Kravetz S, Gross Y, Weiler B, Ben-Yakar M, Tadir M, Stern M J
Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
Brain Inj. 1995 Feb-Mar;9(2):131-9. doi: 10.3109/02699059509008186.
The present study investigated the influence of a man's brain injury on both his and his wife's self-concept and perception of marital vulnerability. Thirty-six couples in which the husbands had brain damage and twenty-nine couples without disability filled out the Tennessee Self-concept Scale [1], and the Marital Vulnerability Scale [2]. Marital vulnerability of husbands with brain damage was found not to differ from that of the husbands in the control group. However, the marital vulnerability of the wives of the former husbands was lower than that of the other wives. Both men with brain damage and their wives exhibited a decrease in self-esteem and an increase in conflict and pathology. Brain damage appears to affect both the extent and direction of the relations between aspects of the self-concept and marital vulnerability differentially for husbands with brain damage and their wives. Practical and theoretical implications of the negative impact of brain damage upon the person with the damage, upon his wife, and upon their marital relationship are discussed.
本研究调查了男性脑损伤对其自身以及其妻子自我概念和婚姻脆弱性认知的影响。36对丈夫患有脑损伤的夫妇和29对无残疾的夫妇填写了田纳西自我概念量表[1]和婚姻脆弱性量表[2]。发现患有脑损伤的丈夫的婚姻脆弱性与对照组丈夫的婚姻脆弱性没有差异。然而，前一组丈夫的妻子的婚姻脆弱性低于另一组妻子。患有脑损伤的男性及其妻子均表现出自尊下降以及冲突和病态增加。脑损伤似乎对患有脑损伤的丈夫及其妻子的自我概念各方面与婚姻脆弱性之间关系的程度和方向产生不同影响。讨论了脑损伤对患者本人、其妻子及其婚姻关系产生负面影响的实际和理论意义。
