@article{ref1,
title="Affective Synchrony in Dual‐ and Single‐Smoker Couples: Further Evidence of “Symptom‐System Fit”?",
journal="Family Process",
year="2009",
author="Rohrbaugh, Michael J. and Shoham, Varda and Butler, Emily A. and Hasler, Brant P. and Berman, Jeffrey S.",
volume="48",
number="1",
pages="55-67",
abstract="Couples in which one or both partners smoked despite one of them having a heart or lung problem discussed a health-related disagreement before and during a period of laboratory smoking. Immediately afterwards, the partners in these 25 couples used independent joysticks to recall their continuous emotional experience during the interaction while watching themselves on video. A couple-level index of affective synchrony, reflecting correlated moment-to-moment change in the two partners' joystick ratings, tended to increase from baseline to smoking for 9 dual-smoker couples but decrease for 16 single-smoker couples. Results suggest that coregulation of shared emotional experience could be a factor in smoking persistence, particularly when both partners in a couple smoke. Relationship-focused interventions addressing this fit between symptom and system may help smokers achieve stable cessation.<p />",
language="",
issn="0014-7370",
doi="10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01267.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1545-5300.2009.01267.x"
}