Funcionalidade e comunicação conjugal em diferentes etapas do ciclo de vida

Abstract

The aim of this dissertation is to evaluate communication (communication levels and styles) between spouses with different levels of functionality (adjustment, cohesion and adaptability) in different stages of marital life cycle (toddlers, school age, teenagers). A quantitative study with descriptive and comparative design was held. The sample was composed by 286 married people or in a common law marriage with children aged between 0 and 18 years old. The participants answered the online protocole individually composed by a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Marital Inventory Communication Scale, Dutch Marital Satisfaction Scale, Communication Questionnaire, Family Adaptability and Cohesion Evaluation Scale, Dyadic Adjustment Scale. This dissertation is organized in a frame of two empirical articles: “Marital Communication in different stages of life cycle” and “Positive and Negative Communication: Differences between men and women”. The found findings point that the studied variables have great importance to the study of conjugal relationships and for the clinical understanding of this phenomenon.