SPOUSES' UNITY IN VALUE-SEMANTIC AREAS AND PRONENESS TO CONFLICT

Abstract

Poor coincidence of spouses’ value positions leads to a great deal of family conflicts. The subject under investigation is the difference of spouses’ value positions and their influence on the spouses’ behavior in conflict situations. It was shown that the difference of value positions has less influence on the husband’s conflict behavior with respect to the wife’s; not all kinds of differences of value positions have an impact on the conflict process in a family; the same differences of value positions in some areas show different influence on the wife and husband’s conflict behavior; poorer husband’s individual level in comparison with the wife’s one always leads to harder psychological losses for the family.