AN INVESTIGATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COMMUNICATOR STYLE AND MARITAL ADJUSTMENT

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This study assumes that communication is the essence of the marital relationship, and that communicator style occupies a central role in such relationships. It was argued that a more productive way of understanding marital communication would be to investigate communicator style from a multidimensional perspective. Therefore, this study investigated the association between six dimensions of communicator style (dominant, communicator image, impression leaving, attentive, open, and dramatic) and marital adjustment. Specifically, three research questions were asked: (1) Is there an association between married couples' similarity of communicator style and marital adjustment? (2) Is there an association between accuracy of husbands' perception of wives' communicator style and marital adjustment? (3) Is there an association between accuracy of wives' perception of husbands' communicator style and marital adjustment? To address these questions, 103 married couples completed Spanier's Dyadic A

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