Romantic attachment, stress, and cognitive functioning in a large sample of middle-aged and older couples

Weidmann, Rebekka; Chopik, William J.

doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2022.104233

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“…The present studies do not examine the underlying process or why integrated and nonintegrated money motives matter to relationships. Relationship partners who are primarily motivated to earn money as a way to promote personal growth might also be more agreeable or open‐minded, traits which have been linked to better relationship quality (Weidmann et al, 2023). Types of money motives might also be connected to underlying need fulfillment or lack thereof (Thibault Landry et al, 2016), which might affect desires to seek need fulfillment through suboptimal avenues.…”

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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

Peetz,

Joseph

2024

Personal Relationships

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Two studies examined how financial values held by romantic partners were linked with relationship satisfaction. Across a sample of married individuals (N = 628), and a dyadic sample (N = 236), results suggest that holding or perceiving a romantic partner to hold integrated money motives—wanting to earn money to feel pride, establish one's worth, facilitate freedom, and enrich leisure activities—was linked with better relationship satisfaction. Holding or perceiving a romantic partner to hold nonintegrated money motives—wanting to earn money to enable impulse spending, to feel better than others, and to overcome self‐doubt—was linked with worse relationship satisfaction. In both samples, perceived similarity in money motives between the self and the partner was also linked to higher relationship satisfaction. Study 2 further showed that actual similarity between partners in nonintegrated money motives was also linked to better relationship satisfaction, suggesting that even nonintegrated money motives might benefit relationships, as long as both partners share these motives. Overall, these studies suggest that while holding similar financial values as your partner is linked with better relationships, some financial values are more conducive to relationship satisfaction than others.

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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

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Joseph

2024

Personal Relationships

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“…For instance, romantic partners who share certain personality characteristics have been hypothesized to be more satisfied in their relationships and stay together (“birds of a feather flock together”). Some studies indeed reported that partners who were more congruent in certain traits were less likely to separate (e.g., Rammstedt et al, 2013), whereas evidence for congruence effects on relationship satisfaction has been more mixed (van Scheppingen et al, 2019; Weidmann et al, 2023). Notably, studies that focused on strict congruence effects (i.e., only congruence predicts; shown in Fig.…”

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“…1a) may have underestimated potential fit effects in the presence of main effects of the person and (or) environment (Humberg et al, 2019). For example, Weidmann et al (2023) found significant congruence effects of spouses’ open-mindedness on relationship satisfaction when modeled with the positive main effects of each spouse’s open-mindedness score (see Fig. 1b).…”

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“…Surface plots demonstrating examples of fit-outcome relationships: higher outcome levels (here, relationship quality and satisfaction) when personal(ity) traits and environmental characteristics are congruent (here, partners’ open-mindedness). Response surface plotting from http://public.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/faculty/edwardsj/: Figure 1a exemplifies strict congruence effects of partners’ open-mindedness on relationship stability, whereas empirical polynomial regression parameters for Figure 1b are taken from Weidmann et al’s (2023) Supplementary Tables 5 and 6 ( b X = .082, b Y = .124, b X2 = –.075, b X*Y = .118, and b Y2 = –.057).…”

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A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions

Kandler,

Kühn,

Mönkediek

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Curr Dir Psychol Sci

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Environments shape people, and at the same time, people are attracted to environments that fit their characteristics because fit facilitates the achievement of people’s desired life outcomes, such as relationship satisfaction, work success, and well-being. In this article, we outline how persons and environments can fit, the relevance of fit and misfit for different life outcomes, and the benefits and pitfalls of different (mis)fit measures. We propose three directions for future research: (a) the use of both subjective and objective (mis)fit measures; (b) the consideration of complex dynamics between person and environment characteristics via pathways through multiple biological, experiential, behavioral, and social layers across the life span; and (c) the integration of insights from different disciplines, including psychology, sociology, neuroscience, and genetics, to move the field forward.

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“…Challenges in late life include physical and cognitive health declines, which also have implications for attachment‐related processes. Studies have also examined whether attachment is a protective factor for healthy aging (e.g., physical and cognitive health; Monin et al., 2013; Waldinger et al., 2015; Weidmann & Chopik, 2022). With the increasing older adult population in the next 20 years, data to assess how changes in attachment are linked with people's health and well‐being over longer periods of time among older adults is needed.…”

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Attachment security and how to get it

Chopik

Weidmann

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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Attachment theory has become a dominant framework for understanding people's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors with respect to close relationships. People often want to and are motivated to improve their personalities and their relationships. Can attachment orientations change across the lifespan? And if so, what facilitates change? Will insecure people stay insecurely attached across their life or is there hope for change? The current review provides a bird's eye view of the research on how and why attachment orientations change in adulthood. We provide some descriptive information for how attachment changes across the lifespan and how much of this variation is attributable to early life experiences. Then, we focus on the processes that are thought to engender attachment‐related changes over time. Finally, we provide some directions for future research to help fill some holes in the field's understanding about attachment orientations and how they change over time.

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Romantic attachment, stress, and cognitive functioning in a large sample of middle-aged and older couples

Cited by 7 publications

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How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

How couples think about money: Types of money motives and relationship satisfaction

A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Person-Environment Fit: Relevance, Measurement, and Future Directions

Attachment security and how to get it

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