Emotional flooding in response to negative affect in couple conflicts: Individual differences and correlates.

ABSTRACT: This study explored whether individual differences in self-reported emotional flooding were associated with observational behaviors and experienced and displayed anger during a 10-min problem solving discussion. A sample of 233 married or cohabiting couples, comprising 4 groups (distressed with intimate partner violence [IPV], distressed/nonIPV, satisfied/IPV, and satisfied/nonIPV) was recruited via random digit dialing. Consistent with predictions, both men's and women's flooding were positively associated with partners' negative affect variables, including partners' experienced and displayed anger, as well as positively associated with their own anger. A multinomial logistic regression revealed significant differences between flooding in prediction of couples' group status; specifically

SUBMITTER: Malik J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007326 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature