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The aim of this paper is to describe how the use of interrogative sentences can contribute to the induction of negative emotions and, consequently, increase the likelihood of conflict or its escalation. For this purpose, this paper analyses quantitatively a corpus obtained from the recording and transcription of therapy sessions of different Spanish couples. Specifically, for this paper, three sessions corresponding to three different therapy moments of four different couples were selected. This means that 12 therapy sessions and, approximately, 900 minutes of recording were analysed. Once the interrogative sentences used by the couples have been identified, the following aspects are described and quantified in order to answer the following questions: What is the underlying intention behind the use of these sentences by the couples in these situations? Is there variation in how different couples use them? Do the uses change consistently as the therapy progresses? Is there a correlation between the pragmatic use of these sentences and the specific types of interrogative sentences used in each case? The analysis reveals a variety of uses depending on the couples. However, it also detects a minority use of interrogative sentences for requesting unknown information and, conversely, a prevalence of uses aimed at making the speaker's position prevail, although through the mitigation allowed by an open statement. Finally, the analysis also shows a strong correlation between the pragmatic use of interrogative sentences and their form. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The intimate relationships of the older population have seldom been analyzed from a sociological perspective. This study provides novel information on what is desired in a partner after the age of 50 in Spain. The academic debate on this topic has been limited. Therefore, the contribution of this article is mainly an exploration of the empirical data. The database used is the Spanish General Social Survey prepared by the Sociological Research Center. The results indicate that personality is the most valued factor, followed by values and physical appearance. The variables with the greatest explanatory power in the estimated multinomial logit model are age, sex, level of education and cohabitation status. Educational homogamy appears among those with higher levels of education, with men more interested in physical appearance and women more interested in values and education. These last two characteristics are also more highly valued among those who are older. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Infertile couples seeking treatment experience a social stigma that can lead to the need for privacy and, in turn, compromise their access to social support. This multiple case study, which involved the collection of sociodemographic and health data and interviews with four heterosexual couples accessed by convenience, aimed to examine the perception of the couples about the social support received after the disclosure of the condition of infertility and/or of the assisted reproductive technology treatment. The cases were analyzed individually and comparatively. From the couples' statements, it is highlighted that all of them revealed something about infertility and/or treatment at some point in the process, although some considered not revealing it. Both support and lack of support were perceived from the revelations. The non-disclosure was motivated by self-preservation and by avoidance of social pressure. The findings indicate the importance of psychological intervention to expand the couples' social support. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article came out of a study of the Freudian foundations related to the various functional and defensive configurations of family and couple bonds following the hypothesis that the relationships in both contexts have as their principal goal to process drives and, secondarily, obey the demands of reality and the Superego (Freud, 1905/2017; 1923/2019). Mentioned are contemporary authors' contributions to the theme, with particular emphasis on the contributions of David Maldavsky and his establishment based on psychoanalytic theory of the 10 laws that govern the bonds between individuals in a family, couple, or other grouping. Finally, based on clinical experiences, we examine family and marital pathologies resulting from situations in which the limits that differentiate individuals are abolished. It is argued that these situations constitute a transsubjectivity corresponding to a narcissistic functioning that generates fusional and adhesive relationships. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Good treatment refers to the ability of people to take care of each other. Research on good treatment has focused on social, health and educational fields. However, it has not been explored in the couple's case. The purpose of the study was to develop a scale to measure good treatment in the relationship of men and women in Mexico City and its metropolitan area. An instrumental study was carried out in which 800 people participated. Construct validity was obtained from an exploratory factor analysis. The scale of good treatment in the couple relationship was made up of four subscales: meaning (alpha = .95), reasons (alpha = .95), consequences (alpha = .97) and strategies (alpha = .95). It was concluded that good treatment in couples in Mexico is linked to the expression of affection, respect and care of the other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to study the relationship between attachment and satisfaction with the partner relationship, considering the mediating role of emotional competences, and taking into account the influence of gender, age, and duration of the relationship. 265 Spanish youths (59.2% women) between 18 and 36 years of age with a current partner participated in the study. The most relevant results indicate that subjects with a dismissive avoidant style show less relationship satisfaction. Along with the fearful style, they are the ones with the poorest emotional skills. Attachment anxiety and avoidance are negatively related to relationship satisfaction, being mediated by emotional regulation. The importance of developing emotional education programs in youths as a way of mitigating the effect an insecure attachment style is discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The relationships go through different situations that can generate instability and upsets or conflicts between the members of the couple, which impact on it, favoring dissatisfaction, frustration or even the end of the relationship, greatly affecting the health and well-being of the person. Based on this, the objective of this study was to know the relationship among the conflict reasons and importance with health and satisfaction with the relationship. To this end, we worked with 240 people (50% women and 50% men), aged between 18 and 75 years who were in one of the four stages of the couple's cycle: development, maintenance with small children, maintenance with older children and dissolution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes how loving and political trajectories of Argentinean gay men are intersected. In doing so, the goal is to critically review love self-referentiality's hypothesis operating in contemporary societies and develop the complexity of the notion of sociability to explain political paths. The methodological approach was based in conducting in-depth interviews with 30 gay men who live in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires to reconstruct their love stories. I identify three ways in which love and politics are intertwined. The first one refers to how politics becomes a principle of seduction. The second one implies thinking politics as a hooking-up space. The third one describes the ways through which politics contribute to stabilize couples. I conclude that the description of those crossroads advances in the understanding of love, relativizing self-referentiality's hypothesis sustained in social studies of love, and unfolding the non-politics category, included in politization studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This investigation is ongoing. It focuses on understanding the protective factors that enable the maintenance of couples in the health emergency. Constitutes qualitative research, with case studies; In which participate 5 couples whose members are between 25 and 35 years old, born in Quindío, with cohabitation in free union between 3 and 5 years, without children. The information was obtained through a semi-structured interview, the data will be analyzed through atlas-ti. Research contributes to development as people who are well in their relationship strengthens their mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Differences in depressive symptomatology and anxiety were analyzed according to the type and level of violence received in men and women. 2 271 adults participated (56.3 % women and 43.7 % men), with with a mean age of 37.7 years (SD = 6.85). Intimate partner violence was evaluated with the short version of the revised Conflict Tactics Scales, which showed a good fit and acceptable reliability indices (α = 0.85 for violence received and α = 0.75 for violence perpetrated). Depressive symptoms were assessed with the Patient Health Questionnaire (α = 0.89) and anxiety was measured with the Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale (α = 0.82). Analyses of variance were performed to determine the differences in depressive symptomatology and anxiety by type and level of violence. The results indicated significant differences in all types of violence received, both for men and women, with participants who did not present violence showing less depressive symptomatology and less anxiety than participants who experienced minor and severe violence. It is necessary to deepen in the violence that both men and women receive and its impact on mental health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Intimate partner violence is a phenomenon that generates serious public health problems and has been primarily studied in heterosexual relationships, meaning it has been studied less frequently in same-sex couples. Therefore, this systematic review synthesizes the methodological and ethical aspects of studies on violence in couples consisting of gay men and men who have sex with men (MSM), published in the last two decades in international journals. Following the PRISMA methodology, the Scopus, Clarivate, EBSCO, Science Direct, Scielo and LA Reference databases were searched and from a total of 292 studies located, 17 articles were identified as meeting the inclusion criteria through a process of debugging divided into four phases. Results showed that a quantitative approach, and non-experimental and cross section designs predominated, as well as the inclusion of nonprobabilistic and non-representative samples. Also, inconsistencies were found in the ethical aspects of psychological research and a lack of specialized instruments for same-sex couples. The results and methodological implications are discussed, prioritizing the urgency of future studies focused on the needs and characteristics of this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present article analyzes changes and continuities in gender relationships and autonomy among wives of returned migrants in the city of Teocelo, Veracruz, Mexico. For that purpose, we used a qualitative method, specifically, the analysis of life stories as reported by seven local women. The departure, absence, and return of a migrant husband entails a series of changes in the practices and subjectivities of wives. These changes have to be negotiated with the returnee to maintain the couple relationship and family ties. The present study stresses the importance of continuing research on migration using a gender perspective to properly acknowledge and evaluate the experience of women married to migrant returnees. The present analysis seeks to contribute to gender-sensitive studies on the phenomenon of migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The objective was to analyze the psychometric properties of reliability and validity of the questionnaire Forgiveness in Divorce-separation (CPD-S), of Yárnoz-Yaben and Comino (2012). The sample consisted of 203 college students, men (25.1%) and women (74.9%), who had an experience of love couple, aged between 16 and 32 years old with an average age of 20.51 years (SD = 3.375), in order to obtain evidence to support its use in the city of Lima. Correlation analysis item-test found highly significant associations (p <0.001) for each of the items, indicating that the reagents evaluated indicators same construct. The questionnaire has acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach's α= .720). Also, the evaluation of bias by comparing coefficients Alfa suggests absence. Evidence of convergent and predictive validity was obtained of questionnaire. Finally, to analyze the factor structure, an exploratory factor analysis where the result of the KMO test casts doubt on the feasibility of such analysis. Based on the results obtained states that the validity of the CPS is inconclusive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The ways in which couples in South Europe manage their money has received little attention. This study uses regression analysis to evaluate the allocative systems of Portuguese couples and their predictors. To do this we use a sample of 3,331 households in Portugal with at least one heterosexual couple. Couples' allocative systems were classified based on Pahl's typology. The results confirm what has been found in previous studies regarding the prevalence of joint pooling management and the predictors of the different models for managing money. However, some particularities have been found: decisions taken in multi-generational familes favour partial joint pooling, as the distinctive characteristics of households in South Europe play a role in assigning intra-family resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study sought to detect the relationship between dyadic adjustment and victimization and perpetration of violence, taking into account sex, number of children and years of relationship. A demographic data form, the Suffered and Exerted Couple Violence Questionnaire, and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale were administered to an incidental non-probability sample of 120 women and 120 men from Monterrey, Mexico. Models were contrasted by path analysis. In both sexes, having fewer children predicted greater dyadic adjustment, and greater dyadic adjustment predicted lower levels of victimization and perpetration. In women, victimization and perpetration were independent, whereas in men they were related, following a recursive model of reactive or proactive violence. In men, but not in women, having more children predicted a higher perpetration level. In men years of relationship were correlated with victimization and perpetration, but did not predict violence, because these correlations were fully mediated by dyadic adjustment. It is concluded that predictors of victimization and perpetration differ between both sexes and that dyadic adjustment mediates the correlations between years of relationship, number of children, and intimate partner violence. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article contributes to the study of same-sex couples in Spain. With the current increased recognition of rights, there are major research gaps in the area of same-sex demographic behavior (nuptiality and fertility). By using (and validating) data from the 2011 Spanish Population Census, we have been able to offer a general profile of sociodemographic characteristics of same-sex married and cohabiting couples. The results suggest the clearly heterogamic composition of those couples, a smaller presence of children in their households and the prevalence of the dual earner couple model. It has also been found that same-sex couples are less likely than opposite-sex couples to get married. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Empathy involves in its nature a series of other notions (Batson, 2009) whose highlights comprise two psychological elements in different degrees: cognition and emotion, which are linked each other. In one hand, empathy can be a kind of intellectual or imaginative comprehension about other without really experience the feeling of that person (i.e. Hogan, 1969), on the other hand, empathy is an emotional reaction or sympathy in response to the feelings or experiences of others (i.e. Mehrabian & Epstein, 1972). Due to its inherent interactional character of empathy, the couple relationship context becomes very interesting to explore; also because it includes a particular emotional and cognitive shades that favor the display of that variable which involve the integration of its members in a characteristic cognitive-emotional reading and thus determine the degree of intimacy and immediacy achieved by them. At this, the purpose of this research was to design and validate an empathy toward the partner measure in an intentional non probabilistic sample of 467 adults from Mexico City whose had a romantic relationship at the moment of the study. Findings show the extraction of four key factors in the understanding of empathy: perspective taking, cognitive empathy of emotions, self-disturbance and empathetic compassion. Those factors showed construct validity and moderate Cronbach reliability coefficients and they represent a conceptual, methodological and cultural contribution to the variable in the romantic context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Since the beginning of the last decade the number of mixed unions has increased considerably. This study presents some findings that aim to clarify the relationship between mixed unions and social integration. Primary data have been collected through in-depth interviews with information on personal networks. Results regarding network composition and structure suggest a higher presence of Spaniards in the networks of mixed unions, mainly relatives of the native partner, who enter sooner the networks and have more links to other immigrants. However, the role of the Spanish partner is not more central than that of the immigrant partner, nor the emotional proximity to native actors is higher in the case of mixed unions. The analysis of two particular networks suggests diverse and complex processes in the configuration of the relationships knits at destination. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emotional dependency in interpersonal relationships is defined by the need of the other. As there is scarce research on the topic in young people, the aim of the study was to develop an instrument (DEN: Emotional dependency in Dating) to evaluate emotional dependency in those ages. The preliminary version was filled out by a sample of 286 adolescents, together with measures of emotional dependence, and the final version composed by 16 items was completed by 761 adolescents together with some measures related to dependence. The results have shown a factorial structure of four-first order factors (Avoid being alone, Need for exclusivity, Need to please others and Asymmetric relationship) and a second order factor (Emotional Dependency). The instrument has shown a convenient convergence with other instruments of emotional dependence and related constructs. The DEN has proved to be a valid and useful instrument to measure the construct of emotional dependence in couples of young people and adolescents. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The couple has an exciting history that is glimpsed in the works of Cuban and foreign intellectuals who in spite of referring in first instance to the history of the family, they could not be subtracted of the changes associated to the couple in the discursar of the time. All, offered valuable contributions to the understanding of evolution of the human couple, however, starting from Engels, the couple continued changing, and in the contemporary works, you/he/she is a rarity to find a conductive thread on the couple's development until the XXI century. With the use of the procedures methodological analysis-synthesis, and of the comparative and logical-historical methods, the article that we offer, has the intention of showing a systematizing from the relative studies to the human couple, as budgets initials for the scientific investigations that are carried out on the topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS). The answers of 456 Spaniards (228 couples, 45 of which were satisfied with their relationship) were factor analysed through a confirmatory factorial analysis. It was found that a tetra factorial model, similar to the one proposed by the author in his original study, fitted significantly better than a Hierarchic or monofactorial model. The internal consistency (Cronbach's?) of the first order factors ranged between .60 and .84. Gender-separated analysis determined that the goodness of fit was equally good both in men and women and also between harmony and conflict sample. Cut-off scores for each dimension of the questionnaire were established. The results of this study are similar, as far as cut-off scores and internal consistency are concerned, to those of Spanier's original study and adaptation studies of the questionnaire in other countries. Its use can be recommended with populations of ill adjusted couples, both in the initial assessment phase, and as a measure of their evolution, after therapeutic interventions, and to establish possible comparisons with couples in conflict from other countries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of the study was to evaluate differences in marital satisfaction according to attachment styles and the interaction between the individual and the partner's attachment styles in a sample of 129 participants and their partners, all of them residing in the city of Antofagasta, Chile. A crosssectional study with a non-experimental design with a convenience sample was performed, based on self-report measures of the Experiences in Close Relationships and the Marital Satisfaction Scale. Through factorial ANOVA, the results indicate that secure attachment was related to the highest level of marital satisfaction, while dismissing styles were associated with the lowest levels. In dyads the combination of both partners with secure attachment styles was associated with the highest levels of satisfaction, while the combination of dismissing and fearful attachment was associated with the lowest degree of satisfaction. No differences were found according to gender, age, educational level, religious affiliation, presence of children, or length of the marital relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to present an in-formed reflection on the theoretical approaches on modernity and its impact on heterosexual couples in developed countries, as published by European authors, and the empirical researches done in Mexico in the last decades on gender meanings and relationships, as well as couple conflicts and transformations in Mexican (and Latinoamerican) heterosexual families. The contrast between both academic opinions takes into account five analytical dimensions. Finally, from such analysis we reflect on the need to consider the distinctive "modernities" existing in the different regions of the world and the importance of a criticism to a univocal notion of modernity and development when doing studies in the realm of couples and family. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study describes the process of developing the Experiences of Violence in Couple and Family Relationships in University Students Questionnaire, its psychometric properties and the results of the pilot study. The research design used for this study was a nonexperimental, transversal co relational design. The nonrandomized sample consisted of 267 students. The final version of the questionnaire consisted of 41 items and four sub-scales which measured experiences with violence in a relationship as an Aggressor and as a Victim, Observed between the Parents and in the Parent-child relationship as a victim. The total scale and the subscales obtained adequate reliability indexes. On average, the sample reported ten experiences with violence in different contexts. The results of this study contribute data on the prevalence of violence in college students' romantic and family relationships which in turn, provide valuable information for planning prevention and early intervention efforts with this population. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This research characterizes the same sex couple relationships in Bogota's context by comparing a group of people with current partner and one without a partner. Using a non-probabilistic convenience sampling through a snowball design a in-depth interview was a applied to a sample of 60 homosexual (30 men, 30 women). They were asked about aspects of the affective experience (formation of the relationship, satisfaction, conflict management). The results show the participants have a positive view of their couple's life, without significant differences in the perception of the two groups in the aspects evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The objective of this study is to define the concept of couples' gridlock, to identify its different types and possible gridlocks resolutions strategies from the perspective of expert couples therapists and high adjusted marital couples. We have developed an exploratory, comparative, descriptive and analytic design based on the qualitative grounded theory methodology. There are two therapists groups in this study, the first one is constituted by 3 couples therapists and their task was to define and classify gridlocks and to design four couples' clinical vignettes. These vignettes were transformed into four video sequences (seven minutes each) and then, were presented to the second couple therapists' group (4) and high adjusted marital couples (8). Here, we discuss the gridlock definition and classification and the differences and resemblances in the resolution and prevention of gridlocks observed in each group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Few studies have addressed the subject of romantic relationships in adolescence. In fact, it has been a little investigated in the Caribbean region. Considering this, the present study was carried out with the purpose of exploring the meaning of the word "love" within the context of adolescence, Dominican adolescence in particular. Thirty (30) high schools students participated and were subjected to the semantic networks technique proposed by Valdez (1998). The word stimulus used was "love". Results tend to show that "respect" is the word most closely associated with "love", and that differences by gender are also evident. Future studies that analyze the relation between love and adolescent sexuality are proposed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The level of intimacy and communication in four stages of marriage life was measured and related to the variable "marital Satisfaction" (dyadic adjustment). The sample was formed by 200 married couples divided in four groups according to the marital stage they were in (Melville, 1983). The Inventory of Marital Communication of Nina Estrella (1991) was applied. The Inventory of Intimacy (personal assessment of intimacy in relationship, of Olson and Shaefer, 1987), already adapted to a Mexican sample (Dionne, 1996) was also applied. Data were compared with the results obtained in the Inventory of Marital Satisfaction (Scale of Diadic Adjustment of Spanier, 1976). Significant differences (p <.05) in the variables "diadic adjustment", "real intimacy", and "ideal intimacy" in the four stages of the marriage were found. There was no difference regarding the variable "communication" in any of the stages. Also, the variables "communication", "real intimacy", and "ideal intimacy" corelate with "marital adjustment" in a moderate way. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]