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- Title
Affective Synchrony in Dual- and Single-Smoker Couples: Further Evidence of “Symptom-System Fit”?
- Authors
ROHRBAUGH, MICHAEL J.; SHOHAM, VARDA; BUTLER, EMILY A.; HASLER, BRANT P.; BERMAN, JEFFREY S.
- Abstract
Couples in which one or both partners smoked despite one of them having a heart or lung problem discussed a health-related disagreement before and during a period of laboratory smoking. Immediately afterwards, the partners in these 25 couples used independent joysticks to recall their continuous emotional experience during the interaction while watching themselves on video. A couple-level index of affective synchrony, reflecting correlated moment-to-moment change in the two partners' joystick ratings, tended to increase from baseline to smoking for 9 dual-smoker couples but decrease for 16 single-smoker couples. Results suggest that coregulation of shared emotional experience could be a factor in smoking persistence, particularly when both partners in a couple smoke. Relationship-focused interventions addressing this fit between symptom and system may help smokers achieve stable cessation.
- Subjects
CIGARETTE smokers; HEART diseases; LUNG diseases; SMOKING; EMOTIONS; FAMILIES; ALCOHOLISM; HEALTH; MARITAL quality
- Publication
Family Process, 2009, Vol 48, Issue 1, p55
- ISSN
0014-7370
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01267.x