Communicated perspective-taking during stories of marital stress: spouses' perceptions of one another's perspective-taking behaviors

• Koenig Kellas, Jody ^[1] ; Willer, Erin K. ^[2] ; Trees, April R. ^[3]
  1. [1] University of Nebraska–Lincoln

     University of Nebraska–Lincoln

     Estados Unidos

     
  2. [2] University of Denver

     University of Denver

     Estados Unidos

     
  3. [3] Saint Louis University

     Saint Louis University

     Estados Unidos

     

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• Localización: Southern communication journal, ISSN 1041-794X, Vol. 78, nº 4, 2013, págs. 326-351
• Idioma: inglés
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  • Perspective-taking has important connections to social and relational functioning, making it an important skill for marital adjustment (Long & Andrews, 1990). The current study investigated the types of behaviors indicative of communicated perspective-taking from the participant perspective as couples told stories of stressful relational events. Using a stimulated recall procedure, 68 husband and wife pairs jointly told the story of a stressful relational experience and then separately viewed their videotaped interaction and evaluated their spouses' perspective-taking behaviors.Agreement, attentiveness, relevant contributions, coordination, positive tone, andfreedomrepresented the categories of behaviors spouses judged to reflect perspective-taking. In contrast,disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, lack of coordination, negative tone, andconstraintall emerged as categories of behaviors lacking in perspective-taking. Findings also indicated that disagreement, attentiveness, inattentiveness, negative tone, coordination, lack of coordination, and constraint were significantly related to general judgments of perspective-taking for husbands. For wives, on the other hand, disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, and constraint were the only significant negative correlates of general perspective-taking judgments.