We tested hypotheses about moment-to-moment interpersonal influences on anger during couples’ conflict, and the association of those anger dynamics with relationship satisfaction and intimate partner violence (IPV). Displayed anger was coded from laboratory observations of cohabiting couples (N = 197); experienced anger was assessed via a video-recall procedure. Credible, but variable, associations were found in which a person’s anger display at one moment was linked to change in the partner’s anger display and experience in the next moment. Women’s anger experience was more strongly influenced by men’s anger displays in couples with higher levels of IPV and couples with lower levels of relationship satisfaction. The displayed anger of men who perpetrated higher levels of IPV was more strongly influenced by women’s anger displays. Overall, when individuals displayed higher intensity anger, partners reacted with increasingly angry feelings but decreasingly angry displays. Results suggest that anger dynamics relate to dyadic processes and that dynamics relate to important relationship outcomes. Dyadic anger dynamics might prove a worthy intervention target.

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夫妻在冲突中的愤怒动态：人际愤怒调节、关系满意度和亲密伴侣暴力

我们测试了关于夫妻冲突期间人际交往对愤怒的影响的假设，以及这些愤怒动态与关系满意度和亲密伴侣暴力 (IPV) 之间的关联。显示的愤怒是根据对同居夫妇的实验室观察编码的（N = 197); 通过视频回忆程序评估经历过的愤怒。发现了可信但多变的关联，其中一个人在某一时刻的愤怒表现与下一刻伴侣的愤怒表现和经历的变化有关。在 IPV 水平较高的夫妻和关系满意度较低的夫妻中，女性的愤怒体验更受男性愤怒表现的影响。实施较高水平 IPV 的男性表现出的愤怒受到女性愤怒表现的影响更大。总体而言，当个人表现出更高强度的愤怒时，合作伙伴的反应是越来越愤怒，但越来越少的愤怒表现。结果表明，愤怒动态与二元过程有关，而动态与重要的关系结果有关。