Emotional Expressiveness and Marital Adjustment

The purpose of the study was to ascertain the relationship between emotional expressiveness and marital adjustment in two different cultural settings. The Emotional Expressiveness Scale and the Dyadic Adjustment Scale were administered to a sample of 106 couples from the United States and 96 couples from Colombia. No difference in expressiveness was found among U.S. males, Colombian males, and Colombian females. However, U.S. females were significantly more expressive than all other groups. Emotional expressiveness correlated positively with marital adjustment for the U.S. sample but not for the Colombians. Similarity in expressiveness of spouses correlated positively with marital adjustment for the Colombians but not for the U.S. sample. The expression of the positive emotions of love and happiness contributed to good marital adjustment for the U.S. sample, whereas for the Colombians anger and sadness were the most salient emotions. A theoretical model was developed that takes the above mentioned cultural differences into account

Anger · Developmental psychology · Emotional expression · Geography · Happiness · Sadness · Sample (material) · Scale (ratio) · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Psychology · Social Psychology

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