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Identity Verification, Control, and Aggression in Marriage:
Jan E. Stets,Peter Burke +1 more
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In this article, the authors study the identity verification process and its effects in marriage and find that a lack of verification in the spouse identity (i.e., a spouse's perception of control over the environment) threatens stable self-meanings and interaction patterns between spouses.Abstract:
In this research we study the identity verification process and its effects in marriage. Drawing on identity control theory, we hypothesize that a lack of verification in the spouse identity (1) threatens stable self-meanings and interaction patterns between spouses, and (2) challenges a (nonverified) spouse's perception of control over the environment. In response to both of these circumstances, spouses increase control over their partners to counteract disturbances to self-in-situation meanings and to regain the perception of control over their environment. When increased control over the partner does not reaffirm one's identity or restore the perception of control, one may use aggression to gain control. Analysis of data from newly married couples over the first two years of marriage provides results that are consistent with this thesis. In general, we see how the lack of identity verification is tied to the control process, leads to dysfunctional interaction patterns in marriage, and more broadly threatens a stable social structure.read more
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Three Faces of Identity
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New Directions in Identity Control Theory
Jan E. Stets,Peter Burke +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the emotional consequences of identity non-verification and found that the negative emotional consequences depend upon the context of the social structure in which the nonverification occurs.
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
TL;DR: For instance, in the case of an individual in the presence of others, it can be seen as a form of involuntary expressive behavior as discussed by the authors, where the individual will have to act so that he intentionally or unintentionally expresses himself, and the others will in turn have to be impressed in some way by him.
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The Measurement of Meaning
TL;DR: In this article, the authors deal with the nature and theory of meaning and present a new, objective method for its measurement which they call the semantic differential, which can be adapted to a wide variety of problems in such areas as clinical psychology, social psychology, linguistics, mass communications, esthetics, and political science.