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Communication and Adjustment in Marriage: Investigating the Relationship
Author(s) -
MURPHY DONALD C.,
MENDELSON LLOYD A.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/j.1545-5300.1973.00317.x
Subject(s) - task (project management) , psychology , marital relationship , sample (material) , social psychology , developmental psychology , marital therapy , cognitive psychology , clinical psychology , engineering , chemistry , systems engineering , chromatography
The relationship between marital communication and adjustment is assumed to be a strong one, although little research has been done to verify the assumption. This article reports a study in which the relationship was shown to be positive; it also describes some clinical observations of the sample couples in a related research task. It suggests that those scoring low on marital adjustment tended to either communicate more about their relationship than about the content of the task or to ignore each other in favor of working on the task independently.