85 husband-wife pairs indicated separately how likely they were to use each of 38 coping responses. Eight empirically-derived factors of coping behavior emerged. Husband-wife differences in utilization appeared on 4 of the 8 factors. Correlations of husband-wife utilization indicated two patterns, an active-passive pattern and an “other-abuse” and “self-abuse” pattern.
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