Marital Interactions of Drug-Abusing Patients and Their Partners: Comparisons With Distressed Couples and Relationship to Drug-Using Behavior
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Couples with a drug-abusing husband (n = 17) and non-substance-abusing, distressed couples (n = 17) completed several self-report measures of relationship adjustment and participated in videotaped marital conflict-resolution discussions that were coded with the Clinician Rating of Adult Communication (CRAC). Although no differences were found between the couple types on the self-report inventories, drug-abusing couples had higher scores (indicating more frequent use of dysfunctional communication behaviors) on 3 of the 5 CRAC subscales (i.e., Abusiveness, Problem-Solving Skills, and Attribution of Blame) and a higher CRAC total score (a global measure of communication skill) than distressed couples. In addition, the CRAC total score for drug-abusing couples was negatively related to husbands' percentage of days abstinent during the year before entering substance abuse treatment.
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