are the most likely recipients of control efforts that, in turn, reflect interpersonal problems arising from certain habits. Bilateral attempts between spouses to control health behavior may have more positive effects (Lewis & Butterfield 2007). For example, Franks and associates (2002) found that smoking cessation was more successful when both spouses tried to quit. Given this evidence, theorists have begun to conceptualize social control as a communal and multidirectional process between members of social groups rather than a one-way process (Lewis et al. 2004).
