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The Relation Between Spousal Affective Self‐Disclosure And Marital Adjustment
Author(s) -
Davidson Bernard,
Balswick Jack,
Halverson Charles
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
home economics research journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.372
H-Index - 31
eISSN - 1552-3934
pISSN - 0046-7774
DOI - 10.1177/1077727x8301100408
Subject(s) - sadness , anger , psychology , feeling , happiness , spouse , self disclosure , perception , social psychology , clinical psychology , developmental psychology , neuroscience , sociology , anthropology
This paper examines the relations between married partners' levels of affective self‐disclosure and marital adjustment. Based upon responses to questionnaires by 324 married students, marital adjustment was found to be positively related to both spouse's reported self‐disclo sure of feelings and to self's reported reception of affective disclosure. In addition, the relationship between the differences in partners' levels of disclosure and marital adjustment was also examined. Findings indicated that one's perception of differences between self and other in the disclosure of love was inversely related to one's marital adjustment. Situations in which these general findings vary by the type of feeling disclosed–love, happiness, anger, and sadness–are also noted.