Coordinated Interpersonal Timing in Marital Interactions

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dc.contributor.advisorMurphy, Christopher M
dc.contributor.authorSchmitz, Theresa Marie
dc.contributor.departmentPsychology
dc.contributor.programPsychology
dc.date.accessioned2015-10-14T03:14:18Z
dc.date.available2015-10-14T03:14:18Z
dc.date.issued2009-01-01
dc.description.abstractPrevious research has recommended that temporal patterning be investigated in marital interactions. This project examined Coordinated Interpersonal Timing (CIT), which is a means of assessing the temporal patterns of speech, in marital interactions. Associations were explored between CIT and general relationship satisfaction, as well as between CIT and behavioral coding of the same interaction utilizing Rapid Marital Interaction Coding System (RMICS). CIT considers an individual's sounds (vocalizations), silences between the vocalizations of the same speaker (pauses), and silences between the turns of one speaker and the turns of the other speaker, which are attributed to the speaker who initiated the pause (switching pauses). These various states are assessed free of their intonation and verbal content. CIT utilizes these speech parameters to evaluate their coordination in the rhythms of dialogue. In this sample of 19 married couples (N = 38, with 19 men and 19 women), CIT uniquely accounted for 39% of the variance in relationship adjustment. Wife's Switching Pause CIT was inversely related to husband's satisfaction. Husband's Pause and Switching Pause CIT were both positively related to wife's satisfaction, and husband's Vocalization CIT was inversely related to wife's satisfaction. This research highlights important contributions and necessitates additional investigation into temporal assessment of marital interactions. Given that patterns within communication are considered clinically diagnostic, it is the case improved that understanding and application of this approach to couples' interactions will provide cost-effective, descriptive data on marital interactions.
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dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M2NX0V
dc.identifier.other10183
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/1092
dc.languageen
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dc.subjectCouples
dc.subjectInteractions
dc.subjectRMICS
dc.subjectTemporal Patterning
dc.titleCoordinated Interpersonal Timing in Marital Interactions
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