Fire and Ice in Marital Communication: Hostile and Distancing Behaviors as Predictors of Marital Distress

By L. Roberts. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology

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Linking Financial Strain to Marital Instability: Examining the Roles of Emotional Distress and Marital Interaction (2007, background): “Roberts (2000) compared the effects of hostile and distancing behaviors on husbands’ and wives’ marital distress and found that wives were most distressed by their husbands’ hostile behaviors, and husbands were more distressed by wives’ distancing behaviors.”
People's Reasons for Divorcing (2003, result): “Nevertheless, this result is consistent with a study showing that communication problems (such as avoiding problem-solving discussions) predict marital unhappiness more strongly among husbands than wives (Roberts, 2000).”
Communication, conflict, and the quality of family relationships. (2004, background): “In addition, indirectness can be functional in some relationships and contexts, but not others (Fitzpatrick, Fallis, & Vance, 1982; Raush, Barry, Hertel, & Swain, 1974; Roberts, 2000)—an issue we elaborate below.”
Nonstandard Work Schedules and Partnership Quality: Quantitative and Qualitative Findings (2010, background): “Under such circumstances, it may be that interaction assumes a pattern of one partner demanding more engagement and the other exhibiting avoidance through withdrawal, thus resulting in relationship dissatisfaction (Roberts, 2000).”
A Meta-Analytical Review of the Demand/Withdraw Pattern of Interaction and its Associations with Individual, Relational, and Communicative Outcomes (2014, unknown): “…used inventories based on conflict resolution strategies (e.g., Gottman & Krokoff, 1989; Kurdek, 1994) and interactional response patterns (e.g., Roberts, 2000), whereas others conducting observational research have used a variety of global and microanalytical coding schemes (e.g.,…”