Self-expansion perceptions and behaviors uniquely contribute to relationship quality over time.
Self-expansion perceptions and behaviors uniquely contribute to relationship quality over time.
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随着时间的推移，自我扩展的观念和行为对关系质量有着独特的贡献。
DOI：
10.1037/fam0001188
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发表时间：
2024
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Dobson K
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作者：
Dobson K
自我拓展指的是通过参与新活动、获得新技能和获得新视角来拓展自我的过程，并被认为在很大程度上是由一个人的亲密关系驱动的。自我扩展体验包括对潜力的感知（即，对未来如何自我扩展关系的信念），对当前体验的感知（即，对当前如何自我扩展关系的信念），以及制定的行为（即，参与新颖有趣的活动）。在两项预先登记的二元日常经验研究中，我们研究了自我扩展潜力是否是行为自我扩展和当前感知的先决条件，以及这些不同的自我扩展成分如何独特地协同预测日常和长期的关系满意度和承诺。结果表明，自我扩张电位对行为自我扩张和日常自我扩张感知均有前瞻性预测。自我扩展潜力、当前感知和行为分别预测了更高的关系满意度和日常承诺。自我扩展潜力——而不是行为或当前感知——也积极预测了2个月后的满意度和承诺。讨论了关系中潜在力量的含义，包括未来研究考虑自我扩展的这一重要方面的必要性。（PsycInfo数据库记录(c) 2024 APA，版权所有）
Self-expansion refers to the process of broadening the self via engaging in novel activities, gaining new skills, and acquiring new perspectives and is proposed to be driven in large part by one’s close relationships. Self-expansion experiences include perceptions of potential (ie, beliefs about how self-expanding a relationship could be in the future), perceptions of current experiences (ie, beliefs about how self-expanding a relationship is present), and enacted behaviors (ie, engagement in novel, interesting activities). In two preregistered dyadic daily experience studies, we examined whether self-expansion potential is an antecedent to behavioral self-expansion and current perceptions, and how these distinct self-expansion components uniquely and synergistically predict relationship satisfaction and commitment daily and over time. Results revealed that self-expansion potential prospectively predicted both behavioral self-expansion and daily perceptions of current self-expansion. Self-expansion potential, current perceptions, and behaviors separately predicted greater relationship satisfaction and commitment daily. Self-expansion potential—but not behaviors or current perceptions—also positively predicted satisfaction and commitment 2 months later. Implications regarding the power of potential in relationships are discussed, including the need for future research to consider this important facet of self-expansion.(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved)