Marital disclosure and marital satisfaction: direct-effect versus interaction-effect models

This investigation assessed two competing hypotheses regarding the relationship between self-disclosure in marriage and the marital satisfaction of husbands and wives: an interaction-effect hypothesis, which suggests the relationship between self-disclosure and marital satisfaction for either spouse is contingent on the level of self-disclosure of the other, and a direct-effect hypothesis, which suggests that the marital satisfaction of each spouse varies directly as a function of the level of self-disclosure of both self and other in marriage. The simpler, lower-order, direct-effect hypothesis is concluded to account adequately for the data.
Marital Disclosure and Marital Satisfaction: Direct-Effect Versus Interaction-Effect [...]