We assessed the association of personality pathology with romantic couples' observed interpersonal behaviors. Couples engaged in four discussion tasks, after which observers used the Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics method to continuously rate each participant's dominance and warmth over the course of each discussion. Using these ratings, we derived indices of average behaviors and changes in behaviors over the course of discussions. Generally, results indicated that the more personality pathology either spouse reported, the colder husbands were on average, and the colder they became toward their wives over time. However, personality disorder symptoms and overall interpersonal problems were largely unassociated with wives' behaviors. Results also indicated that the more dominance-related problems husbands and wives reported, the more dominantly and coldly they behaved, the more submissive or withdrawn their partners were, and the colder wives became over time; and the more warmth problems wives reported, the more dominantly, they behaved.

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人格病理学和配偶的人际交往行为。

我们评估了人格病理学与浪漫情侣观察到的人际关系的关联。夫妻进行了四个讨论任务，然后观察者使用“人际动态连续评估”方法对每个参与者在每个讨论过程中的主导地位和热情进行连续评估。使用这些评级，我们得出了在讨论过程中平均行为和行为变化的指数。通常，结果表明，配偶双方报告的人格病理学越多，平均而言，丈夫越冷，随着时间的流逝，她们对妻子的态度就越冷。但是，人格障碍症状和整体人际关系问题与妻子的行为无关。结果还表明，丈夫和妻子报告的与优势相关的问题越多，他们的行为就越占主导地位和越冷漠，伴侣的顺从或退缩就越多，随着时间的流逝，妻子变得越冷。妻子报告的保暖问题越多，他们的行为就越占主导地位。