Vocational Similarity and Couple Functioning: The Mediating Role of Integrative Communication during Conflicts

Poster Session V

Keyword: Love and Marriage

Abstract: This study examined the indirect effects of conflict strategies in the relationship between vocational similarity within couples and two indicators of couple functioning: dyadic adjustment and relational stability. Results showed that vocational similarity indirectly contributed to both dyadic adjustment and relational stability through actor and partner effects of integrative communication.

• Kristel Mayrand (Presenting Author)
• Claudia Savard (Author)