Relational Turbulence and Openness to Social Network Support for Marital Conflicts

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Abstract

This paper examines associations between relational turbulence, whether people talk about marital conflicts with their close social network members, and defensive processing of hypothetical support messages. Married adults (N = 479) identified a disagreement within their marriage and indicated whether they discussed the disagreement with a social network member. Those who did (n = 292), evaluated a hypothetical support message and completed measures assessing defensive processing. Relational turbulence was not significantly associated with disclosure about marital conflicts, but it was positively associated with counterarguing, source derogation, and negative affect, which in turn, were negatively associated with evaluations of support quality.

Publication Source (Journal or Book title)

Western Journal of Communication

First Page

83

Last Page

102

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