Multiple approaches to the treatment of violent couples |
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Authors: | James M Harper Michael L Elliott |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Family Sciences , Brigham Young University , 273 TLRB, Provo, Utah, 84602;2. Salt Lake Center for Transpersonal Therapies , Salt Lake City, Utah |
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Abstract: | Abstract The relationship of the discrepancy between couple's actual level of intimacy and desired level of intimacy and marital adjustment was explored using data from 185 randomly selected couples who completed the Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships and the Marital Adjustment Test. Multivariate and univariate regression analyses indicated that the discrepancy between actual and desired intimacy of husbands and wives was highly predictive of marital adjustment (R2=.665). Particularly interesting was that couples with low intimacy scores who did not desire more intimacy had good marital adjustment. The relationship between intimacy and marital adjustment was curvilinear, and wives' marital adjustment was more affected by intimacy than husbands'. Implications for marital therapy are discussed. |
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