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Experiencing Couple Relationships in the Line of Fire
Author(s) -
Shamai Michal,
Fogel Saray,
Gilad Dvorit
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of marital and family therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.868
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1752-0606
pISSN - 0194-472X
DOI - 10.1111/jmft.12147
Subject(s) - social psychology , psychology , dialectic , coping (psychology) , perception , general partnership , psychotherapist , political science , epistemology , philosophy , neuroscience , law
The study aims to explore the way civilians living in the line of fire experience the impact of exposure to warfare on their couple relationships. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 14 couples living on the Israeli side of the border with the Gaza Strip. Four themes emerged: Overall perception of the security situation's impact on the dyadic relationships, dyadic intimacy, role division and decision‐making, and Couple's emotional coping: partnership versus separateness. The findings were organized along a continuum between impacted and not‐impacted relationships. Couple's position on this continuum was not fixed and could change as a result of to the security situation or marital therapy. The findings were framed in concepts from Dialectic Theory and from the Family Adaptation Models. Implications for couple therapy in these situations were specified.