Predicting divorce among newlyweds from the first three minutes of a marital conflict discussion
Predicting divorce among newlyweds from the first three minutes of a marital conflict discussion
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1545-5300.1999.00293.x
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发表时间:
1999-09-01
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影响因子:
3.9
通讯作者:
Gottman, JM
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作者:
Carrère, S;Gottman, JM
This study tested the hypothesis that how a discussion of a marital conflict begins-in its first few minutes-is a predictor of divorce. The marital conflict discussion of 124 newlywed couples was coded using the Specific Affect Coding System, and the data were divided into positive, negative, and positive-minus-negative affect totals for five 5-minute intervals. It was possible to predict marital outcome over a 6-year period using just the first 3 minutes of data for both husbands and wives. For husbands this prediction improved as the groups diverged in the remaining 12 minutes; for wives the prediction remained equally powerful for the remaining 12 minutes as it had been, in, the first 3 minutes.