Author : Allison Clark Joe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (642 download)
Book Synopsis Positive and Negative Marital Quality and Cognitive Attributions in Marriage by : Allison Clark Joe
Download or read book Positive and Negative Marital Quality and Cognitive Attributions in Marriage written by Allison Clark Joe and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current study reviews previous research supporting the utility of a two-dimensional conceptualization of marital quality and its association with cognitive attributions. Extension of these results to two categories of attributions, distress-maintaining and relationship-enhancing attributions, was attempted. Attributions were measured using a self-report inventory and an observational coding system for a videotaped problem-solving interaction. Married couples from a college and community sample (N = 83) participated. The current study yielded partial support for the utility of two-dimensional marital quality as a predictor of the measures of attributions, particularly for coded attributions. Two-dimensional marital quality might be especially useful in accounting for motivation to improve the marriage as a factor operating on the association between quality and attributions. Discussion summarizes current results, discrepancies between current and previous research, limitations of the current study, and avenues for further research to clarify the conditions under which two-dimensional marital quality is most useful.