Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!

Berlamont, Liesbet; Hodges, Sara D.; Sels, Luc; Ceulemans, Eva; Ickes, William; Hinnekens, Céline; Verhofstadt, Lesley

doi:10.1007/s11031-022-09982-x

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“…Investigating affect-worsening regulation is challenging, potentially because people are unwilling to report such instances out of evaluative concerns (Niven et al, 2011), and may require a more targeted approach than the present research. For example, studying couples’ conflict interactions (e.g., Berlamont et al, 2023; Sasaki & Overall, 2023), where negative emotions are relatively more salient, may offer further insight into this type of regulation than everyday interactions more broadly.…”

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Why do we engage in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation?

Tran,

Greenaway,

Kalokerinos

2024

Emotion

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Why do we engage in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation?

Tran,

Greenaway,

Kalokerinos

2024

Emotion

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“…Does similarity in empathic accuracy indeed reflect a power balance in the relationship? It could be that other underlying mechanisms are at play as well, with similarity in empathic accuracy reflecting similarity in pro-relationship motivation or even commitment of partners (as pro-relationship motivation is known to influence empathic accuracy levels (see for example Berlamont et al, 2023).…”

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Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being

Berlamont,

Ceulemans,

Carlier

et al. 2023

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Are intimate partners similar in how accurately they infer each other’s feelings and thoughts, and if so, does this similarity predict their relationship well-being? To answer this question, we analyzed data from two laboratory-based studies ( n = 155 and n = 172 couples) in which couples participated in a conflict interaction task and afterwards reported on their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner. Relationship well-being was measured on both a global (i.e., relationship satisfaction) and a situational level (i.e., post-interaction closeness and satisfaction with the outcome of the interaction). We found that intimate partners were more similar in their empathic accuracy than randomly-paired individuals. This similarity predicted the extent to which partners reported that the conflict interaction had led to a positive outcome for their relationship, but was not associated with partners’ global relationship satisfaction or their post-interaction closeness.

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“…Variations in EA in children could be mostly explained by factors specific to the relationship, rather than age. Motivation is a unique predictor of EA especially in close relationships (Berlamont et al, 2022). As shown by McLaren and Pederson (2014), parents tend to give importance to the relational outcomes of interactions with their adolescent, while adolescents focus on the direct outcome of the interaction.…”

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Empathic Accuracy across Childhood and in Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review

Mauroy,

Galdiolo,

Meillerais

et al. 2024

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Empathic accuracy is an ability to precisely understand someone else’s current thoughts and feelings during an interaction. EA has mostly been studied in adult populations, although intra-individual differences in EA could be explained by age and developmental changes during childhood. A systematic review was conducted to synthesize the existing literature on empathic accuracy (EA) in childhood and during parent-child interactions. Following PRISMA norms, five electronic databases were searched and yielded 22 references. Most studies were conducted in samples of adolescents. Besides, the operationalization of EA varied across studies. Few results support age variations in EA during childhood. Children’s and parents’ EA is linked to parental and children’s behaviors during interactions. Parents and children also hold beliefs that girls and mothers should have higher empathy than boys and fathers. Finally, this systematic review highlighted a lack of transparent methodologies and specific assessment of EA in children in the current literature.

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Motivation and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples: it’s complicated!

Cited by 5 publications

References 74 publications

Why do we engage in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation?

Why do we engage in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation?

Couple similarity in empathic accuracy and relationship well-being

Empathic Accuracy across Childhood and in Parent-Child Interactions: A Systematic Review

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