| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to replicate a 1978 qualitative research project entitled "The Death of a Dyad." Twenty unstructured retrospeclive interviews were conducted wilh urban divorced individuals in order to test the validity of four phases in marital relationship dissolution and nine interpersonal problem areas. Through content analysis, contemporary inquiry also discerned four "diseased states." The nine conflict variables observed in 1978 continue to be problematic in marriages a decade later. The primary problem area in bolh studies was interpersonal communication between spouses. Seven additional variables were also found to be significant contributors to relationship dissolution. |
