Two approaches to marital interaction: Relational control patterns in marital types

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• Robin N. Williamson is Assistant Professor of Communication, St. Thomas More College, and Mary Anne Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor of Communication, University of Wisconsin. The authors wish to thank Joseph N. Cappella, University of Wisconsin, and Thomas Putnam, Purdue University, for their invaluable assistance in this project. This article is based on the doctoral dissertation of the first author completed under the direction of the second author.
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