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Husband‐Wife Dyads versus Married Strangers

Husband‐Wife Dyads versus Married Strangers WHAT if anything, is demonstrably distinctive in interaction between husbands and wives? Partly this is a matter of determining whether married couples specialize or do not specialize in particular kinds of content. Heiss ( 2 ) and Leik ( 3 ) interpret their results to suggest that as people become more closely acquainted with each other they behave less according to cultural role prescriptions, in that men act less instrumental, and women less affective. The actual data of the Heiss and Leik studies do not strongly support this view, and moreover, in the case of Heiss, they confound acquaintanceship with the kind of personnel used as subjects. For example, a population of engaged individuals is not the same as a population of individuals who are casually dating, and might behave differently regardless of any pairing arrangements. The present study seeks to overcome this kind of confounding by comparing pairs of strangers with married couples, where all subjects are drawn from a common sample of married individuals. While content is more easily studied and of interest, a more challenging issue is that of dyadic emergents. The issue is whether married couples are demonstrably more dyadic than pairs of strangers, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Family Process Wiley

Husband‐Wife Dyads versus Married Strangers

RYDER, ROBERT G.
Family Process , Volume 7 (2) – Sep 1, 1968
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Copyright © 1968 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
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0014-7370
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1545-5300
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10.1111/j.1545-5300.1968.00233.x
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WHAT if anything, is demonstrably distinctive in interaction between husbands and wives? Partly this is a matter of determining whether married couples specialize or do not specialize in particular kinds of content. Heiss ( 2 ) and Leik ( 3 ) interpret their results to suggest that as people become more closely acquainted with each other they behave less according to cultural role prescriptions, in that men act less instrumental, and women less affective. The actual data of the Heiss and Leik studies do not strongly support this view, and moreover, in the case of Heiss, they confound acquaintanceship with the kind of personnel used as subjects. For example, a population of engaged individuals is not the same as a population of individuals who are casually dating, and might behave differently regardless of any pairing arrangements. The present study seeks to overcome this kind of confounding by comparing pairs of strangers with married couples, where all subjects are drawn from a common sample of married individuals. While content is more easily studied and of interest, a more challenging issue is that of dyadic emergents. The issue is whether married couples are demonstrably more dyadic than pairs of strangers,

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Family Process – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 1968

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