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Differences among divorced and normal couples (husbands and wives) in communication patterns of the survival stances; placating, blaming, being super reasoning and irrelevant of communication patterns have been observed in subjects of all ages. This study was designed to investigate whether such differences persist in divorced couples and normal couples. To realize the study objective, a questionnaire was developed consists of 128 items, distributed to four main parts related to the survival stances ; placating, blaming, being super reasoning, and irrelevant of communication patterns, its validity and reliability, and internal consistency by Cronbach Alpha were achieved through a pilot study. The questionnaire was answered through interview with the couples, who were asked about their communication patterns. The couples answered the questionnaire items of survival stances: being super reasoning, blaming, placating, and irrelevant of communication patterns, through interview. To answer the study questions, data obtained from (48) normal couples, and (50) divorced couples was entered at the SPSS program, means, and the standard deviations are calculated, to investigate the significant differences among divorced and normal couples, then the Multivariate analysis is computed. The results showed that the husbands from the divorced couples and the normal couples had higher means in the survival stances being super reasonable and placating more than the wives from the divorced and the normal couples, but the wives who are from divorced and normal couples had higher means in blaming and irrelevant survival stances of communication patterns more than the husbands from the divorced and the normal couples. The Multivariate results indicated that there were significant differences among husbands and wives in survival stances: blaming, irrelevant of communication patterns in favor of the wives, and the survival stances being super reasoning and placating of communication patterns in favor of the husbands .The study ended by some recommendations.
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