Deciding to Dissolve: Individual- and Relationship-Level Predictors of Roommate Breakup

Bahns, Angela J.; Crandall, Christian S.; Canevello, Amy; Crocker, Jennifer

doi:10.1080/01973533.2013.764301

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“…Other findings from this study appear in Bahns, Crandall, Canevello & Crocker (2013), Canevello & Crocker (2010, Study 1; 2011), Canevello, Granillo, & Crocker (2013, Study 2), Crocker, Canevello, Breines, & Flynn (2010, Study 2). Note that RSC is not included in any analyses in any of these articles.…”

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The association between compassionate goals and relational-interdependent self-construal

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Although research has examined the consequences of relational self-construal, little is known about what psychological factors predict it. Four studies examined the association between compassionate goals and relational self-construal. Study 1 showed that compassionate goals are positively associated with relational self-construal in college students. Study 2 replicated this association among adults in romantic relationships. Studies 3 and 4 showed that compassionate goals predict increased relational self-construals over time in college roommates. Moreover, Studies 2–4 showed that responsiveness to relationship partners statistically mediated the association between compassionate goals and self-construal. These studies suggested that people with compassionate goals have highly relational self-construals and that they also develop higher levels of relational self-construals by being responsive to relationship partners.

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“…For example, Kerckhoff and Davis (1962) found that value similarity was related to persistence in the relationship among couples who had been dating less than 18 months, but it was no longer related to relationship outcomes among couples who had been dating 18 months or longer. Decisions such as whether or not to continue living with a college roommate are also often based on similarity and made very early in the relationship process (Berg, 1984; Bahns, Crandall, Canevello, & Crocker, 2013).…”

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Similarity in relationships as niche construction: Choice, stability, and influence within dyads in a free choice environment.

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A series of field studies focused on the role of similarity as niche construction in friendships. Using a free-range dyad harvest method, we collected 11 independent samples with 1,523 interacting pairs, and compared dyad members' personality traits, attitudes, values, recreational activities, and alcohol and drug use. Within-dyad similarity was statistically significant on 86% of variables measured. To determine whether similarity was primarily attributable to niche construction (i.e., selection) or social influence, we tested whether similarity increased as closeness, intimacy, discussion, length of relationship, and importance of the attitude increased. There were no effects on similarity of closeness, relationship length, or discussion of the attitude. There were quite modest effects of intimacy, and a reliable effect of the shared importance of the attitude. Because relationship length, intimacy, closeness, and discussion can all serve as markers of opportunity for, or potency of social influence, these data are consistent with the "niche construction" account of similarity. In 2 follow-up controlled longitudinal field studies, participants interacted with people they did not know from their large lecture classes, and at a later time completed a survey of attitudes, values, and personality traits. Interacting pairs were not more similar than chance, but for the 23% of dyads that interacted beyond the first meeting, there was significant similarity within dyad members. These 2 lines of inquiry converge to suggest that similarity is mainly due to niche construction, and is most important in the early stages of a relationship; its importance to further relationship development wanes. (PsycINFO Database Record

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“…11 The sample was 74.7% female and ranged in age from 18 to 21 years ( M = 18.1, SD = 0.36; see SOM for additional participant demographics). A sensitivity power analysis for dyadic data (Ackerman & Kenny, 2016) showed that this sample size provides a power of .80 to detect effect sizes as small as pr = .20 at p = .05 for indistinguishable dyads.…”

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How Relationships Foster Growth: Compassionate Goals Predict Growth-Seeking Through Perceived Available Support Independent of Relationship Security

Jiang

Canevello

Crocker

2022

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Growth-seeking refers to a general tendency to pursue growth when facing challenges. The current studies examined whether and how benevolent intentions to support others and not harm them (i.e., compassionate goals in relationships) predict growth-seeking and whether this association is independent of relationship security, which may also predict growth-seeking. Two cross-sectional studies (Studies 1a and 1b, N = 1,032) and two longitudinal studies (Study 2: 3-wave weekly survey, N = 404; Study 3: 12-wave weekly survey, N = 230) showed that compassionate goals correlate with growth-seeking and predict increased growth-seeking over time through perceived available support. The results hold after controlling for participants’ (Studies 1–3) and their partners’ (Study 3) relationship security, which suggests that compassionate goals may foster growth-seeking through perceived available support independent of relationship security. In addition, Study 3 suggests an intrapersonal process (i.e., projected perceptions) underlying the link between compassionate goals and perceived available support.

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Deciding to Dissolve: Individual- and Relationship-Level Predictors of Roommate Breakup

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The association between compassionate goals and relational-interdependent self-construal

The association between compassionate goals and relational-interdependent self-construal

Similarity in relationships as niche construction: Choice, stability, and influence within dyads in a free choice environment.

How Relationships Foster Growth: Compassionate Goals Predict Growth-Seeking Through Perceived Available Support Independent of Relationship Security

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