Ideals as Anchors for Relationship Experiences.
Ideals as Anchors for Relationship Experiences.
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DOI：
10.1177/0003122415581333
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发表时间：
2015-06
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
Trinitapoli J
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作者：
Frye M;Trinitapoli J
对撒哈拉以南非洲青年性行为的研究通常将性行为概念化为个人层面的危险行为。我们引入了一种新方法，将性行为开始的条件与随后的关系幸福联系起来，将关系视为相互依存的事件序列，并将关系经历与个人持有的理想联系起来。来自马拉维南部的新卡片分类数据在一个连续的框架中捕捉了年轻女性的关系经历和她们的理想。使用最佳匹配，我们测量理想和经验关系序列之间的距离，以（1）评估意识形态一致性和感知关系幸福感之间的关联，（2）将这种基于理想的方法与其他基于经验的替代方法进行比较，以及（3）确定浪漫领域中理想和经验之间一致性的个人和夫妻层面的相关性。我们表明，理想和经历之间的一致性可以从四个维度传达关系幸福感：爱和支持的表达、健全的沟通习惯、感知的生物安全性和感知的关系稳定性。我们进一步表明，一致性是由社会经济地位决定的，并受到浪漫二人组中共同理想的支持。我们认为，将理想视为性体验如何表现的锚点可以推进当前对浪漫关系的理解，并且我们建议这种方法可以应用于生活的其他领域。
Research on young-adult sexuality in sub-Saharan Africa typically conceptualizes sex as an individual-level risk behavior. We introduce a new approach that connects the conditions surrounding the initiation of sex with subsequent relationship well-being, examines relationships as sequences of interdependent events, and indexes relationship experiences to individually held ideals. New card-sort data from southern Malawi capture young women’s relationship experiences and their ideals in a sequential framework. Using optimal matching, we measure the distance between ideal and experienced relationship sequences to (1) assess the associations between ideological congruence and perceived relationship well-being, (2) compare this ideal-based approach to other experience-based alternatives, and (3) identify individual- and couple-level correlates of congruence between ideals and experiences in the romantic realm. We show that congruence between ideals and experiences conveys relationship well-being along four dimensions: expressions of love and support, robust communication habits, perceived biological safety, and perceived relationship stability. We further show that congruence is patterned by socioeconomic status and supported by shared ideals within romantic dyads. We argue that conceiving of ideals as anchors for how sexual experiences are manifest advances current understandings of romantic relationships, and we suggest that this approach has applications for other domains of life.