Individual and Couple Patterns of Self-views and their Implications for Working with Premarital Couple Relationship Dissatisfaction |
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Authors: | Alan E Craddock |
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Institution: | (1) School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia |
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Abstract: | A sample of 520 Australian heterosexual couples participating in the PREPARE premarital program completed the multidimensional
PREPARE relationship assessment inventory (Olson D. H. Prepare-Enrich Counsellor’s Manual. Brisbane, Australia: Prepare-Enrich, 1996) providing measures of couple relationship satisfaction and individual levels of
self-confidence, assertiveness, avoidance, and partner dominance. Multiple regression analyses indicated that, after controlling
for idealistic distortion and couple relationship status, high individual male and female self-confidence and assertiveness,
and low individual male and female avoidance and partner dominance, were all significant independent predictors of couple
satisfaction. Couples in which both partners were high on self-confidence were significantly more satisfied than couples in
which one or both of the partners were low on self-confidence. A similar result was evident for couple patterns involving
mutually high assertiveness, low avoidance or low partner dominance, relative to couple patterns in which one or both partners
were unassertive, highly avoidant or high in partner dominance. These aspects of self-view point to a salient evidence-based
intrapersonal and interpersonal context in which to conduct couple therapy. |
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Keywords: | Premarital satisfaction Self-views Self-confidence Assertiveness Avoidance Partner dominance Couple therapy |
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