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Much
of our research employs daily diaries, experience
sampling methodology (ESM) and an innovative portable recording device called
the Electronically
Activated Recorder (EAR). Using these methods, we examine how
the ways in which couples and families behave in everyday life are linked to relationship
quality and physical health.
For example, how do satisfied couples differ from unsatisfied couples
in the ways they talk in everyday life? And how do parent-child
interactions at home impact how happy and healthy children are during
adolescence? By unobtrusively observing
how couples and families talk in their natural settings, we can test
previously
developed theories of social psychological processes and push
relationship science in new and exciting directions. Click here
to read a related article from the Chronicle
of Higher Education about this research. Our investigations of daily relationship processes can be grouped into 3 distinct but related areas. First, we examine the nature of self-disclosure in everyday interactions; specifically, we look at how self-disclosure (opening up to another person about one's thoughts and feelings) is linked to relationship quality and stability. Second, we examine how the specific words that people use in their daily conversations are associated with the quality of their relationships (e.g, Slatcher, Vazire & Pennebaker, 2008). Third, we examine how daily marital and parent-child interactions are linked to fluctuations in stress hormones (e.g., cortisol) and changes in physical health (e.g., Slatcher, Robles, Repetti & Fellows, 2010 and Slatcher & Robles, in press).
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