TY - JOUR
T1 - Response Thresholds and Demand/Withdraw Communication in Domestic Labor Conflict
AU - Knight, Kendra
AU - Alberts, Janet
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported in part by grants from the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. The authors would like to thank Cami Samuels for assistance with data collection, Dr. Karen Stewart for contributing photographs, and Dr. Laura Guerrero and Dr. F. Scott Christopher for comments on previous drafts. We also thank the editor and three anonymous reviewers, whose comments greatly helped to improve and clarify this manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Copyright:
Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/4/3
Y1 - 2018/4/3
N2 - Guided by Alberts, Tracy, and Trethewey’s (2011) integrated theory of the division of domestic labor (ITDDL), this study examines the influence of domestic labor response threshold on demand/withdraw communication in domestic labor conflict. Response threshold represents the point at which a negative stimulus produced by an unperformed task is of sufficient intensity to compel an individual to attend to it. One hundred and fifty-five heterosexual marital dyads (mean length of marriage = 19.98 years) completed an online questionnaire about their household labor conflict and response thresholds. Response thresholds were assessed using a photograph-based measure, and data were analyzed via an actor-partner interdependence model. Consistent with theoretical predictions, a significant actor-threshold-by-partner-threshold-by-sex interaction predicted reported demand/withdraw in domestic labor conflict. Individuals with low or mean response thresholds reported more self-demand/partner-withdraw the higher their partner’s response threshold, and this effect was more pronounced among women than men.
AB - Guided by Alberts, Tracy, and Trethewey’s (2011) integrated theory of the division of domestic labor (ITDDL), this study examines the influence of domestic labor response threshold on demand/withdraw communication in domestic labor conflict. Response threshold represents the point at which a negative stimulus produced by an unperformed task is of sufficient intensity to compel an individual to attend to it. One hundred and fifty-five heterosexual marital dyads (mean length of marriage = 19.98 years) completed an online questionnaire about their household labor conflict and response thresholds. Response thresholds were assessed using a photograph-based measure, and data were analyzed via an actor-partner interdependence model. Consistent with theoretical predictions, a significant actor-threshold-by-partner-threshold-by-sex interaction predicted reported demand/withdraw in domestic labor conflict. Individuals with low or mean response thresholds reported more self-demand/partner-withdraw the higher their partner’s response threshold, and this effect was more pronounced among women than men.
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U2 - 10.1080/15267431.2018.1427588
DO - 10.1080/15267431.2018.1427588
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041214315
SN - 1526-7431
VL - 18
SP - 110
EP - 123
JO - Journal of Family Communication
JF - Journal of Family Communication
IS - 2
ER -