The document summarizes a thesis presentation on the effect of birth order on marital adjustment. It describes a study that administered the Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale to 64 married couples, divided into two groups based on having the same or opposite birth orders. The results indicated that couples with opposite birth orders reported greater marital adjustment than those with the same birth order. The discussion proposes that opposite birth orders help avoid rank conflicts and allow partners to share strengths and weaknesses. The conclusion is that birth order significantly impacts marital adjustability, with opposite birth order couples adjusting better.
Presented by Dr. Sue Johnson at our annual Women in Mind Conference.
Dr. Sue Johnson is the Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California as well as
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
The Impact of Breaking News on Audience
Number of news channels is increasing since the emergence of electronic media. Emerging trends of providing news, information& knowledge creates a huge scope for news channels which further leads to the innovating ideas of news production. This trend gave birth to the concept of ‘Breaking News’, in which sudden news comes on the TV screen with eye catchy screen enhancements to attract majority of viewers. Keeping in view the effects of hard core news, this topic of our assignment wants to understand the meaning of the term ‘Breaking news’. It also aims at identifying the significance and Impact of breaking news on viewers. This qualitative study is done through the questioner I attached with my assignment. It is found from the questioner that people perceive breaking news as sudden shock. The results of this study suggests that media should show some sensibility and maturity in considering any news as breaking so as not to make the viewers desensitized toward it or to ignore it.
INTRODUCTION
As electronic media is flourishing, audience is experiencing new and innovative things which they have not experienced before, due to the huge flow of information. So, individuals may have different reactions toward it. Media in order to capture the eyes of audience use various strategies and varieties in their programs to ensure the maximum viewership. Viewership is directly associated with ratings of a particular program and these ratings make the industry competitive. So this high competition is changing media priorities continuously. These quick changes may have various influences on the viewers, as media effect theories also suggest the same. News may not have one single and unique definition but in short it is something which everyone wants to know.
Defining News:
News is something which is unexpected or which is not happening on regular basis or something that is not routine (Gultung & Ruge, 1965).
Types of News
News may be divided into many types. Hard news typically focused and defines hard and core issues like crime, international affairs, law and order situation, politics, economy etc. while Soft news caters light and soft information like entertainment, film, cinema, hobbies, sports etc. Hard news affects maximum viewers and soft news creates interest among viewers.
Theories That Suggest Media Effects
Different theories discussed the way, how media creates impact or effect on an individual or a society but two among those theories will be discussed here.
a. Cultivation Theory b. Magic Bullet Theory
Cultivation theory argued that media messages has long term effects on viewers but at the same time this theory is also linked TV viewing for long hours as it says more an individual has exposure of TV, more strong effects it will create.
This study further supports both the feasibility and the importance of the feedback (PCOMS) intervention. The alliance significantly predicted outcome over and above early change, demonstrating that the alliance is not merely an artifact of client improvement but rather a force for change in and of itself. The study also found that those couples whose alliance scores ascended attained significantly better outcomes than those whose alliances scores did not improve. Together these findings suggest that therapists should not leave the alliance to chance but rather routinely assess it and discuss it with clients in each session
Presented by Dr. Sue Johnson at our annual Women in Mind Conference.
Dr. Sue Johnson is the Director of the International Center for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy and Distinguished Research Professor at Alliant University in San Diego, California as well as
Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
The Impact of Breaking News on Audience
Number of news channels is increasing since the emergence of electronic media. Emerging trends of providing news, information& knowledge creates a huge scope for news channels which further leads to the innovating ideas of news production. This trend gave birth to the concept of ‘Breaking News’, in which sudden news comes on the TV screen with eye catchy screen enhancements to attract majority of viewers. Keeping in view the effects of hard core news, this topic of our assignment wants to understand the meaning of the term ‘Breaking news’. It also aims at identifying the significance and Impact of breaking news on viewers. This qualitative study is done through the questioner I attached with my assignment. It is found from the questioner that people perceive breaking news as sudden shock. The results of this study suggests that media should show some sensibility and maturity in considering any news as breaking so as not to make the viewers desensitized toward it or to ignore it.
INTRODUCTION
As electronic media is flourishing, audience is experiencing new and innovative things which they have not experienced before, due to the huge flow of information. So, individuals may have different reactions toward it. Media in order to capture the eyes of audience use various strategies and varieties in their programs to ensure the maximum viewership. Viewership is directly associated with ratings of a particular program and these ratings make the industry competitive. So this high competition is changing media priorities continuously. These quick changes may have various influences on the viewers, as media effect theories also suggest the same. News may not have one single and unique definition but in short it is something which everyone wants to know.
Defining News:
News is something which is unexpected or which is not happening on regular basis or something that is not routine (Gultung & Ruge, 1965).
Types of News
News may be divided into many types. Hard news typically focused and defines hard and core issues like crime, international affairs, law and order situation, politics, economy etc. while Soft news caters light and soft information like entertainment, film, cinema, hobbies, sports etc. Hard news affects maximum viewers and soft news creates interest among viewers.
Theories That Suggest Media Effects
Different theories discussed the way, how media creates impact or effect on an individual or a society but two among those theories will be discussed here.
a. Cultivation Theory b. Magic Bullet Theory
Cultivation theory argued that media messages has long term effects on viewers but at the same time this theory is also linked TV viewing for long hours as it says more an individual has exposure of TV, more strong effects it will create.
This study further supports both the feasibility and the importance of the feedback (PCOMS) intervention. The alliance significantly predicted outcome over and above early change, demonstrating that the alliance is not merely an artifact of client improvement but rather a force for change in and of itself. The study also found that those couples whose alliance scores ascended attained significantly better outcomes than those whose alliances scores did not improve. Together these findings suggest that therapists should not leave the alliance to chance but rather routinely assess it and discuss it with clients in each session
Parental stress, affective symptoms and marital satisfaction in parents of ch...James Cook University
Lovisotto, R., Caltabiano, N., & Hajhashemi, K. (2015). International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, 5(10), 30-38.
Abstract: Parents of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a life-long developmental disorder, responded to an online survey considering their stress experience, affective symptoms and marital satisfaction. As these parents sourced different programs for their children, type of program was used to assign parents to different groups in order to consider their stress, affective symptoms and marital satisfaction. The type of programs parents used included the Applied Behaviour Analysis (n=15); Early Intervention Centre (n=13) and no formal program (n=16). Parents of children with ASD in the ABA group reported significantly lower parental stress scores, lower affective symptoms scores and higher marital satisfaction scores compared to the other two groups. These results are suggestive of the beneficial effect that an ABA program can have on the family unit.
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The Effect of Family Communication Patterns on AdoptedAdoles.docxcherry686017
The Effect of Family Communication Patterns on Adopted
Adolescent Adjustment
Martha A. Rueter and
Department of Family Social Science, 290 McNeal Hall, 1985 Buford Avenue, University of
Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108 ([email protected])
Ascan F. Koerner
Department of Communication Studies, 244 Ford Hall, 224 Church St. S.E., University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis MN 55455
Abstract
Adoption and family communication both affect adolescent adjustment. We proposed that adoption
status and family communication interact such that adopted adolescents in families with certain
communication patterns are at greater risk for adjustment problems. We tested this hypothesis using
a community-based sample of 384 adoptive and 208 nonadoptive families. Adolescents in these
families were, on average, 16 years of age. The results supported our hypothesis. Adopted adolescents
were at significantly greater risk for adjustment problems compared to nonadopted adolescents in
families that emphasized conformity orientation without conversation orientation and in families that
emphasized neither conformity nor conversation orientation. Adolescents in families emphasizing
conversation orientation were at lower risk for adjustment problems, regardless of adoption status.
Keywords
adjustment; adolescents; adoption; family communication patterns
Recent changes in the modern family have led researchers to pay closer attention to the growing
complexity of family structures, such as step-families, families formed through assisted
reproduction, and adoptive families. Recent reviews attest to particular interest in adoptive
families and in adopted child adjustment (cf. Bimmel, Juffer, van IJzendoorn, & Bakermans-
Kranenburg, 2003; Juffer & van IJzendoorn, 2005; Lee, 2003; O’Brien & Zamostny, 2003;
van IJ-zendoorn, Juffer, & Klein Poelhuis, 2005). These reviews compared adopted,
nonadopted, domestically adopted, and internationally adopted youth on several adjustment
dimensions, including internalizing and externalizing problems, attachment to parents, and
academic achievement. Overall, these reviews reported that most adopted children and
adolescents were well adjusted. A small but notable group, however, experienced significant
behavioral or mental health problems. It is this group that may account for mean differences
in adjustment that often are observed in studies comparing adopted to biological children
(Bimmel et al.; Brand & Brinich, 1999).
Differences in adjustment for this small group have generally been attributed to a number of
factors unique to adopted children. For example, relative to nonadoptees, adopted children
have more likely experienced early childhood adversity that can result in developmental delays
Correspondence to: Ascan F. Koerner.
This article was edited by Cheryl Buehler.
NIH Public Access
Author Manuscript
J Marriage Fam. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2009 August 1.
Published in final edited form as:
J Marriage Fam. 2008 August ; 70(3 ...
The Norway Couple Project: Lessons LearnedBarry Duncan
Couple therapists in routine practice may find it difficult to apply findings from an increasingly expanding and complex body of couple therapy research. Meanwhile, concerns have been raised that competency in evidence-based treatments is insufficient to inform many practice decisions or ensure positive treatment outcomes (American Psychological Association
Presidential Task Force on Evidence-Based Practice, American Psychologist, 2006, 271). This article aims to narrow the research/practice gap in couple therapy. Results from a large, randomized naturalistic couple trial (Anker, Duncan, & Sparks, 2009) and four companion studies are translated into specific guidelines for routine, eclectic practice. Client feedback, the therapeutic alliance, couple goals assessment, and therapist experience in couple therapy provide a research-informed template for improving couple therapy outcomes.
In every society in the world, certain level of participation of male in reproductive health exists It depends upon many socio-cultural and value related aspects. In India, situation is different may be because of traditional and cultural aspects. This study is based on empirical field based data, published in Communicator.
The subject of divorce has been the topic of multiple research s.docxsarah98765
The subject of divorce has been the topic of multiple research studies over the course of many years. Take a look at this model for relationship breakdowns.
Do you think this Vulnerability-Stress-
Adaptation
model has merit? Why or why not?
SCIENCE BRIEFS
Keeping Marriages Healthy, and Why It’s So Difficult
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By Benjamin R. Karney
0210karneyBenjamin Karney is an Associate Professor of Social Psychology and co-director of the Relationship Institute at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on how marriages change or remain stable over time, and in particular how relationship maintenance is constrained or enhanced by the contexts in which it takes place. Currently this includes research on marriages in the military, funded by the Department of Defense, and marriages in low-income populations, funded by the National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.
He received the Gerald R. Miller Award for Early Career Achievement from the International Association for Relationship Research in 2004 and has twice been the recipient of the National Council on Family Relation’s Reuben Hill Research and Theory Award for outstanding contributions to family science. His textbook, Intimate Relationships (coauthored with Thomas Bradbury), will be published by W. W. Norton in January, 2010.
People rarely change their minds about subjects that are important to them. Those who favor gun control today are likely to favor gun control ten years from now, and those who vote for Democratic candidates today are likely to do so throughout their lives.
Yet intimate relationships, and marriages in particular, are the exception to this rule. After two people stand before everyone important to them in the world and publicly declare that they love each other and intend to remain together for the rest of their lives, everything social psychology has learned about the stability of publicly declared opinions suggests that these will be the most stable opinions of all (Festinger, 1957). Yet of course they aren’t. Despite the almost uniform happiness and optimism of newlyweds, most first marriages will end in divorce or permanent separation (Bramlett & Mosher, 2002), and the rate of dissolution http://bestofassignment.com for remarriages is even higher (Cherlin, 1992).
In most cases, this represents a drastic and unwanted change in a highly valued belief, a change that is emotionally and financially costly to both members of the couple. Even in marriages that remain intact, newlyweds’ initially high levels of marital satisfaction tend to decline over time (VanLaningham, Johnson, & Amato, 2001). How can we account for this change? How is it that marital satisfaction declines so frequently, despite our best efforts to hold on to the positive feelings that motivate marriage in the first place? And what is it those couples that maintain their initial happiness are doing right?
What couples that stay happy are doing right
Understandi.
1Running head INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION AND MARRIAGE BLISS.docxeugeniadean34240
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Running head: INTROVERSION-EXTRAVERSION AND MARRIAGE BLISS
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Use header. Note the phrase “Running head” is uppercase-lowercase, but the short title is all capital letters. Short title should be different from the main title, no more than 50 letters including spaces. Make sure the font type and size through out the document is the same, this includes headers.
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Introversion and Extraversion Personality Traits and Marital Bliss
Jason King
Argosy University
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Add “Author Note”. Observe the word “Note” is singular. Use your name and email address in the note.
Author Note
This research was carried out as partial fulfillment towards the Research Methods course at Argosy University by Jason King.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jason King, Department of Psychology, Argosy University, Phoenix 2233 West Dunlap Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85021 Email: [email protected]
Introversion and Extraversion Personality Traits and Marital Bliss
This is the first summary of your study. Please note that the study reference is now different form M1A3 assignment.
Put main title of the study here.
Emotional responses tell us how an individual is processing her environment, and if it contains negative stimuli, emotions reflect such negativity in behavior. Tamir, Robinson, and Clore (2002) carried out four experiments in this study and investigated reaction time (RT), to positive and negative adjectives. In the first study, 102 participants responded to a RT task and then completed Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) developed by Watson, Clark, and Tellegen, (1988) to determine their moods, followed by International Personality Item Pool (IPIP) scales (short form) by Goldberg (1997) to assess their extraversion. The RT task required each participant to respond to a block of words, the participants wanted (e.g., love, happiness etc), or not wanted (failure, pain, etc.,) or neutral (afternoon, definition, etc.,). Extraverts were faster than introverts on positive mood task, and introverts were faster with negative mood tasks. For both type of individuals, RT slowed down if they performed the opposite mood tasks. After the first experiment Tamir et al., (2002) carried out three other experiments manipulating mood conditions and found essentially the same results. This study proposes that traits of introversion and extraversion regulate mood and behavior to pleasant and non-pleasant stimulus material, and would be useful for my proposal, because it suggests that extraverted and introverted individuals may process pleasant and unpleasant affective stimulation from the spouse differently leading to marital bliss or nightmare.
Why is it that extraverts associate with positive moods and introverts w.
Positive Expectations in the Early Years of Marriage Should C.docxChantellPantoja184
Positive Expectations in the Early Years of Marriage: Should Couples
Expect the Best or Brace for the Worst?
James K. McNulty
The Ohio State University
Benjamin R. Karney
University of Florida
The current study examined whether the effects of positive expectations on changes in marital satisfac-
tion over the first 4 years of marriage were moderated by the nature of spouses’ interaction behaviors and
relationship attributions. Consistent with predictions, when spouses’ skills were most positive, positive
expectations predicted more stable satisfaction over time whereas less positive expectations predicted
steeper declines. Alternatively, when spouses’ skills were most negative, positive expectations predicted
steeper declines in satisfaction over time whereas less positive expectations predicted more stable
satisfaction. Thus, in contrast to the idea that expectations in the early years of marriage exert main
effects on satisfaction, the current findings suggest that the effects of expectations interact with the skills
partners bring to their relationships.
Things become better when you expect the best instead of the worst.
—Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking (1952)
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
—Alexander Pope, Letter to Gay (1727; as cited in Bartlett & Dole,
1919/2000)
Although they lived centuries apart, poet Alexander Pope (see
Bartlett & Dole, 1919/2000) and motivational writer Norman
Vincent Peale (1952) agreed that what people expect to receive
affects how they evaluate what they actually receive. The authors
differ, however, in how they described the nature of this effect.
According to Peale, expectations inspire outcomes that are consis-
tent with those expectations. Thus, he argued that positive expec-
tations should be cultivated because they direct people toward
positive outcomes. According to Pope, however, any expectations
leave people vulnerable to disappointment should they fail to
be met. Thus, he argued that positive expectations should be
avoided because they increase the likelihood of experiencing
disappointments.
The difference between these two views mirrors an ongoing
debate within research on intimate relationships. Although studies
agree that what partners expect to receive in their relationships
affects their evaluations of those relationships (e.g., Baucom,
Epstein, Rankin, & Burnett, 1996; Downey, Freitas, Michaelis, &
Khouri, 1998; Fletcher, Simpson, & Thomas, 2000; Knee, 1998;
McNulty & Karney, 2002, Murray, Holmes, & Griffin, 1996b;
Stanley, Blumberg, & Markman, 1999), there is little consensus
about the direction of this effect. One line of research suggests that
positive expectations lead to positive outcomes. On the basis of
this idea, some authors have argued that positive expectations
about a relationship are necessary for developing and maintaining
healthy relationship functioning. For example, in one approach to
preventing marital distr.
Marital Conflict Correlates, Structure, and ContextFrank D. F.docxinfantsuk
Marital Conflict: Correlates, Structure, and Context
Frank D. Fincham1
Psychology, Department, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York
Abstract
Marital conflict has deleterious effects on mental, physical, and family health, and three decades of research have yielded a detailed picture of the behaviors that differentiate distressed from nondistressed couples. Review of this work shows that the singular emphasis on conflict in generating marital outcomes has yielded an incomplete picture of its role in marriage. Recently, researchers have tried to paint a more textured picture of marital conflict by studying spouses’ backgrounds and characteristics, investigating conflict in the contexts of support giving and affectional expression, and considering the ecological niche of couples in their broader environment.
Keywords
conflict patterns; marital distress; support
Systematic psychological research on marriage emerged largely among clinical psychologists who wanted to better assist couples experiencing marital distress. In the 30 years since this development, marital conflict has assumed a special status in the literature on marriage, as evidenced by three indices. First, many of the most influentialtheories of marriage tend to reflect the view that "distress results from couples' aversive and ineffectual response to conflict" (Koerner & Jacobson, 1994, p. 208). Second, research on marriage has focused on what spouses do when they disagree with each other, and reviews of marital interaction are dominated by studies of conflict and problem solving (see Weiss & Heyman, 1997). Third, psychological interventionsfor distressed couples often target conflict-resolution skills (see Baucom, Shoham, Mueser, Daiuto, & Stickle, 1998).
IS MARITAL CONFLICT IMPORTANT?
The attention given marital conflict is understandable when we consider its implications for mental, physical, and family health. Marital conflict has been linked to the onset of depressive symptoms, eating disorders, male alcoholism, episodic drinking, binge drinking, and out-of-home drinking. Although married individuals are healthier on average than the unmarried, marital conflict is associated with poorer health and with specific illnesses such as cancer, cardiac disease, and chronic pain, perhaps because hostile behaviors during conflict are related to alterations in immunological, endocrine, and cardiovascular functioning. Physical aggression occurs in about 30% of married couples in the United States, leading to significant physical injury in about 10% of couples. Marriage is also the most common interpersonal context for homicide, and more women are murdered by their partners than by anyone else. Finally, marital conflict is associated with important family outcomes, including poor parenting, poor adjustment of children, increased likelihood of parent-child conflict, and conflict between siblings. Marital conflicts that are frequent, intense, physical, unresolved, and child relat ...
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The Therapeutic Alliance
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The Therapeutic Alliance
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The therapeutic alliance is a subject m, which has constantly been discussed for several decades. Conferring to several sources and tests, the client-therapist association is an essential secondary and primary factor in the therapy. Research that is conducted by Charles J. Geslo from the University of Maryland. From the experiment, Charles established that the connection among the therapist, along with the client, is linked to the outcome of the medication therapy. What is more, the therapy is the acuity of the client, which adds to the quality of the effect of the medication. In order to have a good and operational liaison between the therapist and client, there are components, which must be available. The conclusions in this paper are to back up the point that the client-therapist affiliation is critical in a session of the therapy.
The therapeutic relationship has always been a debated subject for several decades; few people consider that the relationship does have an impact on the medication results while other people do not approve of this. The therapeutic relationship performs a vital action in the aftermath of the therapy session. The therapeutic relationship comprises of three fundamentals: they include, therapeutic alliance, a dynamic process, as well as a real and personal relationship. Besides, for a long time, there has been extra consideration on the transference along with the therapeutic alliance than in the actual bond amid the clinician and the client. Mr. Charles J. Geslo, who worked at Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, directed an investigation to discover how the client-clinician relationship influenced the result of the medication. To attain this, Mr Charles Geslo worked with an illustration of 43 patrons in the experiment.
At the start of the medication, he assessed the connection between both the clients and therapists in the early medication sitting. After finalizing the four therapy meetings, Mr. Charles Geslo established that the connection amid the client and the therapists is precisely associated to the results of the medication of the meetings of therapy. Rendering to Geslo, the clients who professed their liaison with the clients positively had good results compared to the clients who negatively perceived the relationship. Through re.
11. The effect of marital adjustment `on birth order was studied. Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale was administered to a sample of 64 married couples. Participants were divided into two groups, 32 with same birth order and 32 for opposite birth order. T-test was used for the statistical analysis of data. Significant result indicates that couples with opposite birth order have greater marital adjustability as compare to same birth order. ABSTRACT
12. Marital Adjustment Defined as: A dynamic process, and marital satisfaction is listed as one of the outcomes of the adjustment process. Marital adjustment can also be defined as a dynamic process and yet be measured as a state at a given point in time, dynamic change involves, such as negotiation between the spouses. By Spanier
13. Birth Order Birth order is the chronological order of sibling births in a family By Adler
24. DEMOGRAPHIC SHEET Number of siblings Birth order Number of children Years of marriage Occupation Income Education Family system (i.e. nuclear or combine) Arranged marriage OR Love-come arranged marriage OR Love marriage.
25. Spanier Revised Dyadic Adjustment Scale: It is a 14 item questionnaire. Self inventory test used widely across world. It has three subscales that are as follows: Consensus Satisfaction Cohesion
29. DISCUSSION This hypothesis was formulated keeping the birth order theory along with the theory of Toman, (1976) and Leman, (1998) both the theorists believe that the opposite birth order of husband and wife leads to more healthy relationship in order to avoid rank conflict and to embrace the earned birth order in the family of in-laws.
30. The opposite earned birth order is the one for which an individual strives throughout the sib ship. This means that by observing the overly achieved first-born, last-born would more likely to be associated with his/her older sibling in order to encash the deprived trait of him/her.
31. Therefore in couples of opposite birth order, both partners will be able to associate and share their weak and strong traits with each other that would result in solution of rank conflict.
32. CONCLUSION It is concluded that there is an effect of birth order onmarital adjustability. It is noted that hypothesis was statistically significant and it can be safely concluded that couples of opposite birth order have high marital adjustability as compared to couples of same birth order.
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