Relational turbulence and openness to social network support for marital conflicts

Kellie St.Cyr Brisini; Denise Haunani Solomon; Xi Tian

doi:10.1080/10570314.2021.1994638

Relational turbulence and openness to social network support for marital conflicts

Kellie St.Cyr Brisini^*
, Denise Haunani Solomon
, Xi Tian

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Communication Studies

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This paper examines associations between relational turbulence, whether people talk about marital conflicts with their close social network members, and defensive processing of hypothetical support messages. Married adults (N = 479) identified a disagreement within their marriage and indicated whether they discussed the disagreement with a social network member. Those who did (n = 292), evaluated a hypothetical support message and completed measures assessing defensive processing. Relational turbulence was not significantly associated with disclosure about marital conflicts, but it was positively associated with counterarguing, source derogation, and negative affect, which in turn, were negatively associated with evaluations of support quality.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	83-102
Number of pages	20
Journal	Western Journal of Communication
Volume	86
Issue number	1
Early online date	9 Nov 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/10570314.2021.1994638
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2022

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Defensive Processing
Motivated Reasoning
Relational Turbulence
Social Support
Supportive Communication

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