INTIMACY PROCESSES IN MARRIAGE--A DAILY DIARY APPROACH

描述(申请人摘要)：本次少数民族NIMH学位论文授予 申请书概述了一项研究项目和少数民族的职业目标 重点了解亲密关系的发展和作用的候选人 在婚姻中。该应用程序描述了一项实证调查 在单个数据集合中包含多个研究目标 程序。婚姻关系中的困难是最多的 频繁提出的投诉，个人寻求心理上的 治疗，尤其是亲密关系的问题，已经被确定为 投诉最多的地区。没有发展出一种亲密的，信任的， 亲密关系在婚姻中的发展一直伴随着 情绪障碍、有问题的家庭结构和婚姻 不满意。亲密度，是检验效度的重要方面 这是一种新近开发的夫妻间亲密关系的综合模型。在这 模型中，亲密被概念化为交易性的、人际关系的过程 包括自我表露和合作伙伴反应。如建议的那样 在这种模式下，亲密关系将通过每天重复的方式进行调查 测量随时间推移的婚姻互动是第二个研究目标 是评估亲密过程中可能存在的性别差异 通过对夫妻关系重要性的考察 自我表露和合作伙伴的反应能力。此外，这项研究 进一步发展纵向的、具体的研究方法 供将来在调查婚姻和个人过程中使用 两性关系。未来在调查过程中使用的可能性 婚姻和个人关系。这个项目的潜在发现 可能不仅提供了对亲密如何在 婚姻是随着时间的推移而发展和维持的，但也可能提供一种方式 了解如何在亲密过程出错时进行干预 情侣。

DESCRIPTION (Applicant's Abstract): This Minority NIMH Dissertation Grant application outlines a research project and the career goals of the minority candidate which focus on understanding the development and role of intimacy in marriage. The application describes an empirical investigation containing multiple research objectives within a single data collection procedure. Difficulties in marital relationships have been the most frequently raised complaints for which individuals seek psychological treatment and, in particular, problems with intimacy have been identified as the largest area of complaints. Failure to develop a close, confiding, intimate relationship in marriage has been associated with the development of mood disorders, problematic family structures, and marital dissatisfaction. Intimacy, is to test the validity of important aspects of a recently developed, comprehensive model of intimacy in couples. In this model, intimacy is conceptualized as a transactional, interpersonal process consisting of both self-disclosure and partner responsiveness. As suggested by this model, intimacy will be investigated through repeated, daily measurements of marital interactions over time A second research objective is to evaluate sex differences in the intimacy process that may exist between husbands and wives through examination of the importance of self-disclosure and partner responsiveness. Additionally, this research furthers the development of a longitudinal, idiographic research methodology for future use in investigating processes in marital and personal relationships. The potential for future use in investigating processes in marital and personal relationships.The potential findings from this project may not only provide support for a conceptualization of how intimacy in marriage is developed and maintained across time, but may also provide a way of understanding how to intervene when the intimacy process goes awry in couples.