Specific Characteristics of Interaction in the Premarital Young Couple Living Together

The main goal of the current study was to determine the specially difference in the interaction of a premarital couple during the process of solving a joint task in comparison with the marital ones. As a joint activity, we have taken a technique from the art-therapy that is called "joint drawing". During this task, a couple should create a joint drawing in two variants: with the "blind" instruction and with the image of their future. We expect that premarital couples will be more anxious, unclear in the communication and competitive than marital ones. The study consists of two parts. The first part is to receive data through the diagnostics and includes 3 instruments: a specially designed demographics questionnaire, a test of spousal communication (by Aleshina Yu. E., Gozman L.Ya., Dubovskoy E.M.). The second part is devoted to the joint drawing, which was discussed at the end of the meeting. The sample includes 2 groups: young women and men who are in both registered and unregistered relationships, living together and having no children.