Communication Among Premarital Couples at Three Stages of Dating.

Krain, Mark

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Publication Date: 1975

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Communication Among Premarital Couples at Three Stages of Dating

Krain, Mark

Journal of Marriage and the Family, 37, 3, 609-618, Aug 75

Systematic observation methods were used to investigate the nature of communication in a cross-sectional study of 80 dating and engaged couples that were grouped into dating stages of various degrees of commitment. Results indicate more communication of the critical kind was in evidence at later stages of dating. (Author/EJT)

Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication (Thought Transfer), Dating (Social), Human Relations, Interaction Process Analysis, Interpersonal Competence, Research Projects, Social Development

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