Capitalizing on everyday positive events uniquely predicts daily intimacy and well-being in couples coping with breast cancer.

Otto, Amy K.; Laurenceau, Jean-Philippe; Siegel, Scott D.; Belcher, Amber

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“…Research also consistently indicates that responsiveness contributes to personal well-being. For example, responsiveness is associated with higher levels of intimacy and emotional well-being among cancer patients [15 ], openness to feedback about personal deficiencies [16], non-defensiveness [17], self-integration (connecting negative experiences to the self-concept)…”

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Current research has honed in on responsiveness as the active ingredient that underlies many of the important qualities that define satisfying, healthy relationships. This article describes a dynamic interpersonal model of responsiveness in close relationships that is suggested by recent findings. In particular, we review evidence regarding three key questions of contemporary research interest. First, does responsiveness, in and of itself, promote relationship and personal well-being? Second, to what extent does perceived responsiveness depend on accurate understanding of the self by partners? Third, is perceived responsiveness grounded in the partner's actions, the perceiver's motivated interpretations, or both? Answers to these questions contribute to the development of an integrated model of responsiveness for future work to build upon. AddressesWhen people are asked what they want from their close relationship partners, they usually mention qualities like having someone to confide in, share in life's joys, be an empathic listener, and provide appropriate support when needed. Consistent with lay impressions, research demonstrates that these qualities are associated with the health of relationships. Researchers have recognized that these processes may share a common foundation, and the active ingredient that binds them to relationship quality has been termed responsiveness [1]. Responsiveness describes how partners attend to and support each other's needs and goals; it is a deliberately broad and inclusive construct that touches on many familiar concepts and processes in relationship science. The advantage of focusing on this common element is that it suggests a theoretical model that can help organize seemingly diverse phenomena into a coherent whole.Responsiveness is rooted in the personalities, goals, and relationship history of interacting persons, grounded in the elements of their interaction, and revealed in their perceptions of those interactions. It contributes to the growth and well-being of relationships, or, in its absence, to their decline and dissolution; likewise, responsiveness fosters the growth and well-being of individuals, or, in its absence, their stagnation and discontent. Because it is a fundamentally interpersonal process with intrapersonal origins and consequences, responsiveness highlights the centrality of relationships for understanding individuals.In this article, we build on theoretical models that we and others have reported previously to discuss recent advances in theorizing about responsiveness [2,3]. We begin by describing the central concepts of this model in general terms. Subsequently we address three key questions suggested by the model that have been the focus of recent research. Throughout this review, for the sake of currency, we emphasize research that has appeared in the past few years, but this is done with full awareness that these studies stand on the shoulders of prior work. A fuller review can be found in [4 ]. A model of responsivenessOur working model of responsi...

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Section: A Model Of Responsivenessmentioning

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Responsiveness

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2015

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“…Responsiveness is linked to greater personal well-being as well, including greater emotional well-being among cancer patients [17], increased ability to integrate negative experiences into one’s self-concept [18], and greater personal thriving [19]. Because it shares common elements with many important relationship constructs—providing core validation of the self, and leading to feelings of warmth, acceptance, belonging, and trust—it has been argued that partner responsiveness is an organizing principle in the study of relationships [20].…”

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Protective processes underlying the links between marital quality and physical health

Slatcher

Schoebi

2017

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Although the links between marital quality and physical health are now well established, the psychological processes through which marriage impacts health remain unclear. Additionally, prior research on the links between marriage and health has focused mainly on how negative aspects of relationships (e.g., conflict, hostility) can be damaging to one's physical health. In this article, we describe the strength and strain model of marital quality and health, which provides a roadmap for studying protective factors underlying marriage-health links. We home in one relationship process-partner responsiveness-and one broad class of psychological mechanisms -affective processes-to illustrate core aspects of the model. Our review suggests that future research will profit from a greater integration of theory from the social psychology of close relationships into studies of relationships and health. Keywords marriage; health; marital quality; relationships; cortisol For many, marriage is the most important adult relationship that they will enter in their lifetimes. A troubled marriage leads to pain and heartache, whereas a happy marriage is one of the strongest predictors of personal well-being [1]. Increasingly, people are asking a lot from their marriages, expecting spouses to satisfy their personal psychological needs (e.g., self-esteem needs) more than any other time in history [2]. It thus may come as no surprise that the quality of peoples' marriages are consistently linked to physical health and longevity. Support for this comes from a recent meta-analysis showing that people in higher quality marriages have better physical health and lower levels of mortality [3]. However, what could not be determined from that meta-analysis was notable. For instance, only a handful of studies separated out effects of positive marital characteristics (e.g., responsiveness, intimacy) from negative characteristics (e.g., conflict, hostility), and almost Please address correspondence to Richard B. Slatcher (rich.slatcher@gmail.com). Publisher's Disclaimer: This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final citable form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain. A roadmap for answering the question of how marital quality impacts physical health may be found in Figure 1. This theoretical framework-the strength and strain model [originally described in 4 but refined here]-has guided our work in this area. In this model, marital strengths-such as partner responsiveness-have salutary effects on health, above and beyond the deleterious effects of marital strains, marked by conflict, hostility, and related processes. Further, this model describes how marital strengths can h...

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“…There is also evidence showing the role of savouring in adaptation to cancer among both patients and caregivers. Couples engaging in more joint capitalising on positive events reported better spousal relationships (Otto, Laurenceau, Siegel, & Belcher, ). Individual changes in positive and negative affect were not associated with synchronised capitalising, suggesting the importance of taking into account both patients’ and spouses’ savouring in predicting positive adjustment outcomes.…”

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Savouring and psychological well‐being in family dyads coping with cancer: An actor–partner interdependence model

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Previous studies have investigated interdependence of the associations between predictors and negative psychological outcomes in dyads of cancer patients and family caregivers. This study examined the dyadic effects of perceived capability of savouring the moment on psychological well‐being. A total of 152 dyads of cancer patients and caregivers reported their perceived capability of savouring the moment (Savoring Beliefs Inventory), state positive affect (Chinese Affect Scale) and life satisfaction (Satisfaction With Life Scale) within 6 months following diagnosis. Actor–Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) demonstrated that patients’ and caregivers’ savouring the moment was positively associated with their own positive affect and life satisfaction (actor effects: βs = 0.309–0.603, 95% CIs = 0.171–0.502, 0.446–0.703, ps < 0.001). Patients’ savouring the moment was positively associated with caregivers’ positive affect (β = 0.158, 95% CI = 0.018, 0.299, p = 0.028), whereas caregivers’ savouring the moment was positively associated with patients’ life satisfaction (β = 0.158, 95% CI = 0.026, 0.289, p = 0.020). Partner effects between caregivers’ savouring the moment and patients’ positive affect and between patients’ savouring the moment and caregivers’ life satisfaction were not significant. The findings suggest the role of savouring in psychological well‐being within patient–caregiver dyads, highlighting the importance of investigating positive psychological pathways in their joint adaptation.

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Capitalizing on everyday positive events uniquely predicts daily intimacy and well-being in couples coping with breast cancer.

Cited by 65 publications

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