TY - JOUR
T1 - Communicated Perspective-Taking During Stories of Marital Stress
T2 - Spouses' Perceptions of One Another's Perspective-Taking Behaviors
AU - Koenig Kellas, Jody
AU - Willer, Erin K.
AU - Trees, April R.
N1 - Funding Information:
Jody Koenig Kellas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Erin K. Willer, Department of Communication Studies, University of Denver. April R. Trees, Department of Communication Studies, Saint Louis University. This research was supported by a University of Nebraska Layman Award. A previous version of this article was presented to the Interpersonal Communication Division at the 2011 National Communication Association annual convention. The authors thank Kaitlin Arntz, Rachel Kondro, and Amy Stockhausen for their assistance coding the data. Correspondence to: Jody Koenig Kellas, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, 428 Oldfather Hall, Lincoln, NE 68588-0329. E-mail: [email protected] ISSN 1041-794X (print)/1930-3203 (online) © 2013 Southern States Communication Association. DOI: 10.1080/1041794X.2013.815264
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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, and freedom represented the categories of behaviors spouses judged to reflect perspective-taking. In contrast, disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, lack of coordination, negative tone, and constraint all 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.
AB - 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, and freedom represented the categories of behaviors spouses judged to reflect perspective-taking. In contrast, disagreement, inattentiveness, irrelevant contributions, lack of coordination, negative tone, and constraint all 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/1041794X.2013.815264
DO - 10.1080/1041794X.2013.815264
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84883509580
SN - 1041-794X
VL - 78
SP - 326
EP - 351
JO - Southern Communication Journal
JF - Southern Communication Journal
IS - 4
ER -