Emotional Expression in Husbands and Wives

This study investigated the emotional expression and physiological reactivity of husbands and wives as they discussed a salient interpersonal issue. Emotional behavior of speaker and listener was coded from videotapes with the Couples Interaction Scoring System (CISS). The results indicated that wiv...

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Published in:Journal of marriage and family 1982-05, Vol.44 (2), p.483-489
Main Authors: Notarius, Clifford I., Johnson, Jennifer S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Emotion/Emotions/Emotional/ Emotionally/ Emotionality
Emotional expression
Emotional suppression
Expression/Expressions/Expressive/ Expressiveness
Husband/Husbands
Husbands
Listening
Reactivity
Research Reports
Saliency
Sex linked differences
Skin
Spouses
Wife/Wives
Wives
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Summary:This study investigated the emotional expression and physiological reactivity of husbands and wives as they discussed a salient interpersonal issue. Emotional behavior of speaker and listener was coded from videotapes with the Couples Interaction Scoring System (CISS). The results indicated that wives' speech was characterized by less neutral and more negative behavior compared to husbands' speech. Wives also reciprocated their husbands' positive and negative speech, while husbands did not reciprocate their wives' speech. Finally, husbands had a greater tendency to display skin potential responses to their wives' negative speech than did wives in response to their husbands' negative speech. The pattern of results was discussed in relation to sex-role stereotypes for expressive behavior and to discharge models of emotion.
ISSN:0022-2445
1741-3737
DOI:10.2307/351556