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Abstract:

:Marital conflict is associated with multiple negative outcomes for couples, including marital dissatisfaction and divorce. Little research, however, has examined conflict in Hispanic/Latino couples or its association with marital satisfaction, which creates an unfortunate knowledge gap for clinicians working with diverse client groups. The present study sought to examine both marital conflict and satisfaction using a sample of 231 European American (EA; n = 108) and Hispanic/Latino (H/L; n = 123) couples. Through observational coding, couples were placed into four groups based on their type of conflict management strategies: Harmonious, Withdrawn, Conflictual-Expressive, or Conflictual-Hostile. For both ethnic groups, couples in the Harmonious group were nondistressed and couples in the Conflictual-Hostile group were in the distressed range of marital satisfaction. Cross-ethnic differences emerged. EA couples experienced distress when both hostile (Conflictual-Hostile) and nonhostile conflict (Conflictual-Expressive) communication types were observed, while only hostile conflict was associated with distress for the H/L group. H/L couples reported similar levels of satisfaction in both the Harmonious and Conflictual-Expressive groups. H/L couples also fell within the distressed range when withdrawn communication patterns were observed; however, this was not the case for EA couples. These differences suggest that both types of conflict are associated with marital distress for EA couples, whereas hostile conflict and withdrawn behavior appear to be more negatively associated with marital satisfaction in H/L couples. Results provide support for the use of an observational coding system with H/L and EA couples and also suggest the importance of understanding how differences in expressions of conflict across ethnicities may relate to marital satisfaction. :El conflicto conyugal está asociado con numerosos resultados negativos para las parejas, incluida la insatisfacción conyugal y el divorcio. Sin embargo, pocas investigaciones han analizado el conflicto en las parejas hispanas/latinas o su asociación con la satisfacción conyugal, lo cual crea una desafortunada laguna de conocimiento para los profesionales que trabajan con grupos de pacientes diversos. El presente estudio tuvo como finalidad analizar tanto el conflicto como la satisfacción conyugal utilizando una muestra de 231 parejas euroamericanas (EA; n = 108) e hispanas/latinas (H/L; n = 123). Mediante la codificación observacional, se colocó a las parejas en cuatro grupos según su tipo de estrategias de gestión de conflictos: armonioso, retraído, conflictivo-expresivo o conflictivo-hostil. En ambos grupos étnicos, las parejas del grupo armonioso eran parejas sin distrés y las parejas del grupo conflictivo-hostil estaban en el rango de distrés en la satisfacción conyugal. Surgieron diferencias interétnicas. Las parejas EA sufrieron distrés cuando se observaron los tipos de comunicación ante el conflicto hostil (conflictivo-hostil) y no hostil (conflictivo-expresivo), mientras que solo el conflicto hostil estuvo asociado con el distrés para el grupo H/L. Las parejas H/L informaron niveles similares de satisfacción tanto en el grupo armonioso como en el conflictivo-expresivo. Las parejas H/L también quedaron dentro del rango con distrés cuando se observaron patrones de comunicación retraídos; sin embargo, esto no fue así para las parejas EA. Estas diferencias sugieren que ambos tipos de conflicto están asociados con el distrés conyugal para las parejas EA, mientras que el conflicto hostil y el comportamiento retraído parecen estar más negativamente asociados con la satisfacción conyugal en las parejas H/L. Los resultados respaldan el uso de un sistema de codificación observacional con parejas H/L y EA, y también sugieren la importancia de comprender cómo las diferencias en las expresiones de conflicto entre las etnias pueden relacionarse con la satisfacción conyugal. :婚内冲突会对伴侣关系带来多种负面的后果,包括对婚姻心生不满和婚姻破裂。针对西班牙/拉丁族裔伴侣的婚内冲突或者相关的婚姻满意度的研究甚少,这方面的知识空白对于那些面对各种族裔背景的病人的临床咨询师而言非常不利。本研究旨在考察婚内冲突和婚姻满意度,考察对象的样本包括231对伴侣,分别是108对欧洲裔美国人(EA)和123对西班牙/拉丁裔(H/L)美国人。通过对伴侣使用的冲突管理策略类型进行观察编码后,伴侣们被分成以下四组:和谐友好型,沉默不理型,冲突激烈表达型和冲突敌意型。对两个族群的伴侣而言,和谐型的伴侣没有紧张情绪,冲突敌意型的伴侣在婚姻满意度的紧张水平范围内。跨种族的差异性在研究中显现出来。无论使用敌意或非敌意两种应对策略,欧洲裔伴侣都会因为冲突经历紧张痛苦情绪,而观察西班牙/拉丁裔伴侣的情况则是只有在应对敌意型的冲突时会出现紧张痛苦情绪。用友好共处方式和激烈表达方式应对冲突的两组西班牙/拉丁裔伴侣表示出的婚姻满意度水平基本相似。观察结果还有在H/L族裔伴侣中,遇到了冲突如果出现双方沉默不语的时候也会经历紧张痛苦情绪。而欧美裔的情况则不同。这些差异告诉我们在欧洲裔伴侣中,无论敌意与否的两大类别的冲突都会导致婚内紧张出现,然而在H/L族裔中,只是敌意型和沉默型的行为更有可能导致婚姻满意度水平低下。研究结果为针对H/L和欧洲裔编制的观察编码系统的使用提供支持,也告诉我们充分理解不同种族文化中冲突表达策略和婚姻满意水平的相关性存在差异的重要性。.

journal_name

Fam Process

journal_title

Family process

authors

Lindahl KM,Malik NM,Wigderson S

doi

10.1111/famp.12469

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2020-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1319-1333

issue

3

eissn

0014-7370

issn

1545-5300

journal_volume

59

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