Dyadic discussions that directly tap into spouses' views on spirituality and religiousness (S/R) represent an understudied but important facet of marital functioning that may be tied, for better or worse, to marital conflict and resolution processes. This study used longitudinal data gathered from 164 married couples across the transition to parenthood (TtP) to address this possibility. Specifically, during late pregnancy and when their infant was 3, 6, and 12 months old, husbands and wives completed measures about both spouses' spiritual intimacy (i.e., self-disclosure and support of partner's disclosures about spirituality) and spiritual one-upmanship (i.e., relying on spiritual and religious [dis]beliefs and opinions to assert superiority in conflicts). Criterion variables were the frequency of marital conflict and both partners' use of collaborative, hostile, and stalemating communication strategies during marital conflicts. Using fixed-effects regression models with both predictors entered, we found that greater spiritual intimacy by wives and husbands predicted less frequent conflict (p < .01), more collaborative communication by husbands (p < .01) and less stalemating (p < .01) by both spouses. Wives' spiritual intimacy also predicted more collaboration and less verbal hostility by wives (p < .01). By contrast, greater spiritual one-upmanship by both spouses predicted greater stalemating by both spouses (p < .05) and verbal hostility by husbands (p < .05). The findings indicate that 2 contrasting types of S/R dialogues are differentially linked to disagreements and conflict-resolution skills after accounting for stable aspects of the couples across the TtP (e.g., personality traits). (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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精神上的亲密、精神上的高人一等，以及在为人父母的过渡过程中的婚姻冲突。

直接利用配偶对灵性和宗教性（S/R）的看法的二元讨论代表了婚姻功能的一个尚未充分研究但很重要的方面，无论好坏，它可能与婚姻冲突和解决过程有关。本研究使用从 164 对已婚夫妇在为人父母过渡 (TtP) 过程中收集的纵向数据来解决这种可能性。具体来说，在怀孕后期以及婴儿 3、6 和 12 个月大时，丈夫和妻子完成了有关配偶双方精神亲密程度（即自我表露和支持伴侣披露灵性）和精神上的超人行为（即依靠精神和宗教的[不]信仰和观点来在冲突中主张优越性）。标准变量是婚姻冲突的频率以及婚姻冲突期间双方使用合作、敌对和僵持的沟通策略。使用输入两个预测变量的固定效应回归模型，我们发现妻子和丈夫之间精神上的亲密程度越高，冲突就越少（p < .01），丈夫之间的协作沟通就越多（p < .01），僵局就越少（p < .01）。 01) 由配偶双方共同承担。妻子精神上的亲密也预示着妻子之间的合作会更多，言语上的敌意会更少（p < .01）。相比之下，配偶双方的精神上的高人一等预示着配偶双方会陷入更大的僵局 (p < .05) 以及丈夫的口头敌意 (p < .05)。研究结果表明，在考虑了 TtP 中夫妻的稳定方面（例如人格特质）后，两种截然不同类型的 S/R 对话与分歧和冲突解决技能存在不同的联系。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。