Communication effects on divorce mediation: How participants' argumentativeness, verbal aggression, and compliance‐gaining strategy choice mediate outcome satisfaction

Presents a study which examined the interrelatedness of compliance-gaining strategies, argumentativeness, verbal aggressiveness and satisfaction with divorce mediation. Process in which divorcing spouses negotiate some or all of the terms of their settlement agreement with the aid of a neutral and trained third party; Types of compliance-gaining strategies; Trait which predisposes the individual in communicative situations to advocate positions on controversial issues and to attack verbally the positions which other people take on the issues.