@article{ref1,
title="Fiery wives and icy husbands: Pre-marital counseling and covenant marriage as buffers against effects of childhood abuse on gendered marital communication?",
journal="Social science research",
year="2010",
author="Krivickas, Kristy M. and Sanchez, Laura A. and Kenney, Catherine T. and Wright, James D.",
volume="39",
number="5",
pages="700-714",
abstract="We examine relationships between childhood abuse and two maladaptive marital communication patterns - hostile and withdrawing - and test whether covenant marriage or pre-marital counseling mediate the effects of childhood abuse. Drawing on a sample from the Marriage Matters (1997-2004) data, we find both gendered differences in communication and in the relationship between childhood abuse and negative communication patterns. Wives are more likely to use a hostile style of communication, whereas husbands are more likely to use a withdrawing style. We also find that childhood abuse affects hostile communication for both spouses but influences only wives' withdrawing. Neither covenant marriage nor pre-marital counseling is associated with hostile communication for either spouse. Covenant marriage increases husbands' withdrawal from conflict, whereas pre-marital counseling increases the use of withdrawing communication in both wives and husbands.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0049-089X",
doi="10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.05.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.05.003"
}