creator Hicks Iii, R. Elliott advisor Sher, Tamara Destructive communication and hostile interactions between spouses has been found to elicit large increases in systolic blood pressure, heart rate, and cardiac output in patients (Nealey-Moore et al., 2007; Smith et al., 2009). This negatively impacts the cardiovascular health of the receiving partner. The present study was designed to assess the relationship between hostile criticism and patient report of marital satisfaction, physical health, and depressive symptomatology in a sample of couples participating in a cardiac risk reduction intervention. The current study uses archival data obtained during the Partners for Life cardiac risk reduction intervention for couples (Sher et al., 2002). Additionally, further observationally coded data was collected from video taped conversations recorded for the purposes of the Partners for Life study. Pearson correlation analyses indicate moderate negative relationships between Criticism and Marital Adjustment. Implications of these and other results are discussed. Submitted by Dana Lamparello (dlampare@iit.edu) on 2012-08-23T16:57:03Z No. of bitstreams: 2 thesis template PDF.pdf: 283454 bytes, checksum: ec10702a4def8afb38783015915bc268 (MD5) hicks masters cover.pdf: 9472 bytes, checksum: cf2229d8d9f743bab1800408d5cd639a (MD5) Made available in DSpace on 2012-08-23T16:57:03Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 thesis template PDF.pdf: 283454 bytes, checksum: ec10702a4def8afb38783015915bc268 (MD5) hicks masters cover.pdf: 9472 bytes, checksum: cf2229d8d9f743bab1800408d5cd639a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-05 M.S. in Clinical Psychology, May 2012 2012-04-30 2012-05 http://hdl.handle.net/10560/2847 en Thesis born digital application/pdf In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/ Restricted Access PSYCH / Institute of Psychology Illinois Institute of Technology Affiliated department