Referent communication skills in marriage: spouses as speakers and listeners

Seventy-two volunteer married couples were categorized as either adjusted or non-adjusted on the basis of scores on the Locke-Wallace Marital Adjustment Scale and then participated in a communication task developed by Rosenberg and Cohen (1964). In order to examine differences in communication accuracy between adjusted and non-adjusted married couples, 12 husbands and 12 wives from both adjustment groups attempted to communicate with their spouses and with other married persons. Each subject (S) served as either a speaker or a listener but not as both. A bipolar adjective checklist was administered to each ~ under eight different response sets (self, ideal self, spouse, ideal spouse, and the prediction of how ~'s spouse responded to those sets) in the manner developed by Murstein and Beck (1972).

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science

Level thesis:degree_level

masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Psychology

Department dc:contributor.department

Psychology

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Tech

Year dc:date.issued

1977

Author dc:creator

• Gustin, Quintin L.

Chair dc:contributor.committeechair

• Noblin, Charles D.

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Fritzen, James D.
• Sgro, Joseph A.

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en

Dc Identifier Other

etd-07282010-020229

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/43947