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Chafetz, Janet Saltzman – Journal of Family Issues, 1980
There are four strategies spouses may attempt to employ in cases of conflict: authority, control, influence, and manipulation. Rates of marital dissolution are a function of the relative equality between spouses in terms of the types of conflict-resolution strategies they are able to employ. (Author)
Descriptors: Conflict Resolution, Decision Making, Divorce, Industrialization