Deeds matter: Daily enacted responsiveness and intimacy in couples' daily lives.

Debrot, Anik; Cook, William L.; Perrez, Meinrad; Horn, Andrea B.

doi:10.1037/a0028666

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“…In essence, it demonstrates that expectations of partner responsiveness, although susceptible to the influence of a couple's history, can be changed in the moment—at least for couples in relatively new relationships. These findings also add to the growing literature on the importance of perceived responsiveness to general relationship well‐being (e.g., Debrot et al, ; Gable et al, ; Lemay & Neal, ; Reis et al, ), showing that just changing expectations of responsiveness can significantly affect relational outcomes.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Shifting expectations of partners' responsiveness changes outcomes of conflict discussions

Marigold¹,

Anderson

2016

Personal Relationships

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Expecting responsiveness from a partner may increase the chance of successful conflict resolution through a self‐fulfilling prophecy. Such expectations derive in part from people's history of receiving responsiveness and from their belief that their partner values them (S. L. Murray, J. G. Holmes, & N. L. Collins, 2006). This belief can be fostered by having individuals reframe a partner's compliment in an abstract way (D. C. Marigold, J. G. Holmes, & M. Ross, 2007). In this study, 96 dating couples were randomly assigned to complete a compliment reframing intervention (or not) prior to discussing a conflict. Without intervention, couples who typically had a lot of conflict reported less positive expectations of their partner for the upcoming discussion and subsequently worse outcomes than low‐conflict couples; these differences were eliminated in the compliment reframing condition. This research demonstrates the importance of perceived value and expectations of responsiveness in shaping the outcomes of conflict discussions, suggesting additional points of intervention beyond communication skills for high‐conflict couples.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

Shifting expectations of partners' responsiveness changes outcomes of conflict discussions

Marigold¹,

Anderson

2016

Personal Relationships

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“…For example, a study conducted by Debrot et al (2012), aimed at investigating interpersonal emotion regulation processes within romantic relationships, highlighted only small and somewhat inconsistent gender differences between partners. Similarly, van Middendorp et al (2005) did not find any gender difference regarding the difficulty in experiencing and describing emotions, as well as in emotional control.…”

Section: Gender Differences In Emotion Regulationmentioning

confidence: 97%

Gender moderates the relationship between attachment insecurities and emotion dysregulation

Velotti

D'Aguanno

Campora

et al. 2015

South African Journal of Psychology

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The relation between attachment styles and emotion regulation is well documented, and emotion\ud dysregulation is considered characteristic of individuals with insecure attachment styles. Although\ud gender differences in emotion regulation have often been reported, it is not clear whether the\ud association between attachment styles and aspects of emotion dysregulation may vary across\ud gender. A sample of 229 newlywed couples completed the Experiences in Close Relationship–\ud Revised scale and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. First, we confirmed previous\ud evidence on the association between attachment insecurities and emotion dysregulation. Indeed,\ud attachment anxiety and avoidance were both related to emotional nonacceptance and lack of\ud emotional clarity. Moreover, attachment anxiety was associated with difficulties in impulse control\ud and limited access to effective emotion regulation strategies, whereas attachment avoidance was\ud uniquely related to lack of emotional awareness. Finally, gender was found to moderate the\ud association that both attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance had with difficulties in pursuing\ud desired goals when experiencing negative emotions. Specifically, among women (but not men),\ud attachment anxiety was associated with greater difficulties in engaging in goal-directed behavior\ud when distressed. Conversely, the association between attachment avoidance and difficulties in\ud pursuing desired goals when distressed was positive for men and negative for women

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“…A good deal of responsiveness research has shown robust links to relationship well-being, with responsive interactions fostering intimacy in couples [14], improved interactions between leaders and subordinates [15], and between physicians and their patients [16]. 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].…”

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confidence: 99%

Protective processes underlying the links between marital quality and physical health

Slatcher

Schoebi

2017

Current Opinion in Psychology

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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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Deeds matter: Daily enacted responsiveness and intimacy in couples' daily lives.

Cited by 86 publications

References 60 publications

Shifting expectations of partners' responsiveness changes outcomes of conflict discussions

Shifting expectations of partners' responsiveness changes outcomes of conflict discussions

Gender moderates the relationship between attachment insecurities and emotion dysregulation

Protective processes underlying the links between marital quality and physical health

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