BASIC RESEARCH ON CHANGING MARITAL RELATIONSHIPS

描述(改编自申请人的摘要)：一系列八个近端 婚姻干预研究是基于一项经验性的 从派的视角衍生的婚姻理论(平衡理论) 关于离婚预测的研究。这些研究将在一个 婚姻社会心理生理学实验室里面同步、在线 获得情绪的行为、生理和情绪的自我报告。这个 八项研究是旨在创造近端改变的干预措施 婚姻，也就是改善两个冲突中的第二个-解决婚姻 情侣们在实验室里讨论。改进的定义是 离婚预测及婚姻相关因素的研究进展 满足感。这八项研究旨在代表完整的 婚姻评估和干预的八个组成部分，以及 经验性地建立理论；因为一次只有一件事被改变，他们 可以被描述为实验对近端特定变化的影响 戈特曼的核心三元平衡模型的三个领域(行为， 认知和生理学)。干预措施围绕三个目标组织 用于干预，其来自节约型非线性的参数 动态数学模型。进球的负面影响是减少的 互惠，增加不受影响的设置点，并进行更改 在受影响和不受影响的设定值之间更积极。在陈述的同时 在行为上，它们可以从互动中派生出来，它们是 作为婚姻互动质量的指数呈现在所有领域 测量。离婚预测研究还显示， 三种稳定的夫妻(反复无常，避免冲突)，第四种 实验研究是一种逐个治疗的交互作用研究，测试 三种类型的移情教学是否有具体的方法 婚姻比一般的干预更有效。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from applicant's abstract): A series of eight proximal marital intervention studies is proposed, based on an empirically grounded theory of marriage (balance theory) derived from the PI's prospective studies on divorce prediction. The studies are to be conducted in a marriage social psychophysiology laboratory in which synchronized, on-line emotional behavior, physiology and self-report of affect are obtained. The eight studies are interventions designed to create proximal changes in marriages, that is, to improve the second of two conflict-resolution marital discussions couples have in the laboratory. Improvement is defined in terms of research on divorce prediction and on the correlates of marital satisfaction. The eight studies are designed to represent the complete eight components of a marital assessment and intervention, and to empirically build theory.; Because only one thing at a time is changed, they can be described as experiments on the proximal effects of specific changes to the three domains of Gottman's core triad balance model (behavior, cognition, and physiology). Interventions are organized around three goals for intervention, which come from parameters of a parsimonious nonlinear dynamic mathematical model. The goals are decreased negative affect reciprocity, increasing the uninfluenced set point, and making the change between influenced and uninfluenced set point more positive. While stated behaviorally so that they can be derived from interaction, they are presented as indices of marital interaction quality in all domains of measurement. The divorce prediction studies also revealed that there are three types of stable couples (volatile, conflict avoiding), and the fourth experiment study is an aptitude-by-treatment interaction study, testing whether specific approaches for teaching empathy with the three types of marriages are more effective than a generic intervention.