Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to submit your manuscript to SPPS

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in Web of Science
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Web of Science (13)
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Lewis, M. A.
Right arrow Articles by Johnston-Brooks, C.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

The conceptualization and assessment of health-related social control

Megan A. Lewis

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Rita M. Butterfield

Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Lynae A. Darbes

University of California, San Francisco

Catharine Johnston-Brooks

Denver Veteran’s Affairs Medical Center

Three studies examined the conceptualization and assessment of health-related social control in marriage. Using a sample of 100 couples, Study 1 tested the idea that social control is best thought of as the exercise of power and control in close relationships. Results did not support this conceptualization or assessment of health-related social control in marriage. Based on these results, Study 2 collected qualitative data from husbands and wives via focus groups to explore the use of social control tactics that couples use to change health behavior. Results indicated that many tactics reported by spouses are not contained in the social influence literature, and that the exercise of social control in marriage may best be characterized of as an interdependent communally oriented process between spouses. Using another sample of 109 married couples, Study 3 tested the reliability and validity of a measure developed from the qualitative data. Results indicated the new measure of health-related social control tactics evidenced better reliability and validity than the measure used in Study 1.

Key Words: health • marriage • measurement • qualitative methodology • social control

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships, Vol. 21, No. 5, 669-687 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0265407504045893
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 J Health PsycholHome page
C. N. Markey, J. N. Gomel, and P. M. Markey
Romantic Relationships and Eating Regulation: An Investigation of Partners' Attempts to Control Each Others' Eating Behaviors
J Health Psychol, April 1, 2008; 13(3): 422 - 432.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 Health Educ ResHome page
M. A. Lewis, E. Gladstone, S. Schmal, and L. A. Darbes
Health-related social control and relationship interdependence among gay couples
Health Educ. Res., August 1, 2006; 21(4): 488 - 500.
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Home page
 Pers Soc Psychol BullHome page
M. A. Lewis and R. M. Butterfield
Antecedents and Reactions to Health-Related Social Control
Pers Soc Psychol Bull, March 1, 2005; 31(3): 416 - 427.
[Abstract] [PDF]