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Couples’ self-control and marital conflict: Does similarity, complementarity, or totality matter more?
- Source :
- Social Science Research. 102:102638
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2022.
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Abstract
- Research that approached self-control as a dyad-level predictor of relationship outcomes is hitherto scarce. To address this research gap, this study investigates three configurations of couples’ level of self-control on marital conflict. We test three competing hypotheses suggested in the literature: similarity hypothesis, complementarity hypothesis, and totality hypothesis. The data used to test these hypotheses is a unique couple data (N = 1698 individuals from 894 married couples) of husbands and wives from a representative sample in Hong Kong. Two-level random-intercept models were employed. Based on our analysis with the difference-score method and response surface analysis, we find evidence to support the similarity hypothesis. The similarity of self-control between husband and wife is important in predicting marital conflict. In contrast, the total level of self-control is not predictive of marital conflict. This study highlights that marital conflict is strongly associated with the mismatch of self-control between partners.
Details
- ISSN :
- 0049089X
- Volume :
- 102
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Social Science Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....81a6417ba6919d9923bf1d14b9563bca