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Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine 1/2007

01-02-2007

Hostility, Anger, and Marital Adjustment: Concurrent and Prospective Associations with Psychosocial Vulnerability

Auteurs: Kelly Glazer Baron, Timothy W. Smith, Jonathan Butner, Jill Nealey-Moore, Melissa W. Hawkins, Bert N. Uchino

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Behavioral Medicine | Uitgave 1/2007

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Abstract

Hostility may contribute to risk for disease through psychosocial vulnerability, including the erosion of the quality of close relationships. This study examined hostility, anger, concurrent ratings of the relationship, and change in marital adjustment over 18 months in 122 married couples. Wives’ and husbands’ hostility and anger were related to concurrent ratings of marital adjustment and conflict. In prospective analyses, wives’ but not husbands’ hostility and anger were related to change in marital adjustment. In hierarchical regression and SEM models wives’ anger was a unique predictor of both wives’ and husbands’ change in marital adjustment. The association between wives’ anger and change in husbands’ marital satisfaction was mediated by husbands’ ratings of conflict in the marriage. These results support the role of hostility and anger in the development of psychosocial vulnerability, but also suggest an asymmetry in the effects of wives’ and husbands’ trait anger and hostility on marital adjustment.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Hostility, Anger, and Marital Adjustment: Concurrent and Prospective Associations with Psychosocial Vulnerability
Auteurs
Kelly Glazer Baron
Timothy W. Smith
Jonathan Butner
Jill Nealey-Moore
Melissa W. Hawkins
Bert N. Uchino
Publicatiedatum
01-02-2007
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Behavioral Medicine / Uitgave 1/2007
Print ISSN: 0160-7715
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3521
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10865-006-9086-z

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