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- Title
Communicated Perspective-Taking During Stories of Marital Stress: Spouses' Perceptions of One Another's Perspective-Taking Behaviors.
- Authors
Koenig Kellas, Jody; Willer, ErinK.; Trees, AprilR.
- Abstract
Perspective-taking has important connections to social and relational functioning, making it an important skill for marital adjustment (Long & Andrews, 1990). The current study investigated the types of behaviors indicative of communicated perspective-taking from the participant perspective as couples told stories of stressful relational events. Using a stimulated recall procedure, 68 husband and wife pairs jointly told the story of a stressful relational experience and then separately viewed their videotaped interaction and evaluated their spouses' perspective-taking behaviors.Agreement, attentiveness, relevant contributions, coordination, positive tone, andfreedomrepresented the categories of behaviors spouses judged to reflect perspective-taking. In contrast,disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, lack of coordination, negative tone, andconstraintall emerged as categories of behaviors lacking in perspective-taking. Findings also indicated that disagreement, attentiveness, inattentiveness, negative tone, coordination, lack of coordination, and constraint were significantly related to general judgments of perspective-taking for husbands. For wives, on the other hand, disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, and constraint were the only significant negative correlates of general perspective-taking judgments.
- Subjects
PERSPECTIVE taking; SOCIAL skills; MARITAL adjustment; MARRIAGE; SPOUSES' legal relationship; MARRIED people
- Publication
Southern Communication Journal, 2013, Vol 78, Issue 4, p326
- ISSN
1041-794X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/1041794X.2013.815264