Thriving Through Relationships: A Longitudinal Investigation of Support for Thriving Over a Decade of Marriage

不可否认，亲密和关爱的关系与人生各个阶段的健康和幸福息息相关。然而，亲密关系促进最佳福祉和繁荣的具体途径还没有得到很好的理解。这个项目提供了一个综合的理论模型，描述了影响人类茁壮成长的人际过程。这个项目的目标是测试一个社会支持和繁荣的模型，该模型是由三个文献--积极幸福文献、社会支持文献和亲密关系文献--整合而成的。该模型强调了两种生活环境，人们可能通过这两种生活环境获得成功，它提出了两种关系支持功能，可以在每种生活环境中促进成功，并确定了关系支持可能对成功产生长期影响的机制。该模型是通过研究结婚超过十年的夫妇随时间推移的亲密关系过程来检验的。这个观点可以帮助我们理解社会支持可能是一个关键的人际过程，有助于夫妻的兴旺，也有助于个人的幸福。这个项目考察了社会支持的一个综合模型，社会支持是一个影响兴旺的人际过程。在2005/2006年间新婚的夫妇(N=160)将在他们进入婚姻的第11个年头时再次接受调查。纵向数据收集包括调查，目的是通过观察和在结婚头几年获得的调查来预测长期的兴旺。数据收集还包括一次观察和生理会议，以检查关系支持功能对推动长期繁荣结果的机制的影响，包括生理机制。数据收集还包括每日日记部分，以检查关系支持功能对近期结果的影响。最后，在结婚的第12年，夫妻将完成对婚姻兴旺的后续评估，目的是前瞻性地预测在结婚第11年评估的人际关系过程中的兴旺。该项目为了解人际关系过程及其在蓬勃发展中的作用以及制定旨在促进公共卫生的以关系为基础的干预措施提供了基础。这一点尤其重要，因为社会支持是美国和世界各地幸福和心理健康的主要贡献者。

Close and caring relationships are undeniably linked to health and well-being at all stages in the lifespan. Yet the specific pathways through which close relationships promote optimal well-being and thriving are not well understood. This project offers an integrative theoretical model describing interpersonal processes that influence human thriving. The goal of this project is to test a model of social support and thriving developed from an integration of three literatures - the positive well-being literature, the social support literature, and the close relationships literature. This model highlights two life contexts through which people may potentially thrive, it proposes two relational support functions that promote thriving in each life context, and it identifies mechanisms through which relational support is likely to have long-term effects on thriving. The model is tested by examining close relationship processes over time in couples who have been married for over a decade. This perspective can help us understand how social support may be a critical interpersonal process that contributes to couples' thriving, and also to individual well-being.This project examines an integrative model of social support as an interpersonal process that influences thriving. Couples (N = 160) who were newly married in 2005/2006 will again be investigated as they enter their 11th year of marriage. A longitudinal data collection includes surveys with the aim of predicting long-term thriving from observations and surveys obtained in the first years of marriage. The data collection also includes an observational and physiological session to examine the effects of relational support functions on mechanisms that drive long-term thriving outcomes, including physiological mechanisms. The data collection also includes a daily diary component to examine the effects of relational support functions on proximal outcomes. Lastly, in the 12th year of marriage, couples will complete follow-up assessments of thriving with the aim of prospectively predicting thriving from the interpersonal processes assessed in the 11th year of marriage. This project provides a foundation for understanding interpersonal processes and their role in thriving, and the development of relationship-based interventions aimed at promoting public health. This is especially important because social support is a major contributor to well-being and mental health in the U.S. and across the world.