Buffering the Responses of Avoidantly Attached Romantic Partners in Strain Test Situations
Buffering the Responses of Avoidantly Attached Romantic Partners in Strain Test Situations
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DOI：
10.1037/fam0000186
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发表时间：
2016-08-01
影响因子：
2.7
通讯作者：
Shallcross, Sandra L.
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作者：
Farrell, Allison K.;Simpson, Jeffry A.;Shallcross, Sandra L.
压力测试是对人际关系有重要影响的独特背景，但在社会互动中很少被研究。我们调查了更多的回避型个人(响应者)在他们的恋人(提问者)请求配合一个需要响应者做出重大牺牲的重要计划/目标时的反应。正如预测的那样，更多的回避型应答者在被要求做出牺牲时不那么随和，并且在压力测试讨论后表现出信任和承诺的下降。然而，某些提问者的行为-表达对响应伙伴将促进请求的信心，并承认他们在这样做的过程中做出的牺牲-导致更多的回避型应答者在菌株测试讨论期间和之后做出更积极的反应。表现出响应性是另一种积极的提问者行为，它促进了信任和承诺的增长，但这并不能帮助更多的回避型响应者对提问者的目标做出更积极的反应。融合了相互依赖和依恋理论的关键原则，这是第一项行为观察研究，旨在确定特定的伴侣行为，帮助高度回避型的人在紧张测试情况下做出建设性的反应，并建议回避型伴侣如何在他们的浪漫关系中变得更加信任和承诺。
Strain tests are unique contexts that have important implications for relationships, but they have rarely been studied in social interactions. We investigate how more avoidant individuals (responders) react when their romantic partners (askers) request cooperation with an important plan/goal that requires a major sacrifice from responders. As predicted, more avoidant responders were less accommodating when asked to sacrifice and showed drops in trust and commitment following the strain test discussion. However, certain asker behaviors-expressing confidence that the responding partner will facilitate the request, and acknowledging their sacrifices in doing so-led more avoidant responders to react more positively during and after the strain test discussions. Showing responsiveness, another positive asker behavior, promoted growth in trust and commitment, but it did not help more avoidant responders react more positively to the asker's goal. Blending key principles of interdependence and attachment theory, this is the first behavioral observation study to identify the specific partner behaviors that help highly avoidant people respond constructively in strain test situations and to suggest how avoidant partners can become more trusting and committed in their romantic relationships.