Relationship Maintenance Knowledge and Self-Efficacy

关系维持知识和自我效能

• 批准号: 2203769
• 负责人: Katie Adams
• 金额: $ 6.9万
• 依托单位: Adams, Katie N
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Fellowship Award
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2203769&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Relationship; Maintenance; Knowledge; Self; Efficacy

This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellowships (SPRF) program. The goal of the SPRF program is to prepare promising, early career doctoral-level scientists for scientific careers in academia, industry or private sector, and government. SPRF awards involve two years of training under the sponsorship of established scientists and encourage Postdoctoral Fellows to perform independent research. NSF seeks to promote the participation of scientists from all segments of the scientific community, including those from underrepresented groups, in its research programs and activities; the postdoctoral period is considered to be an important level of professional development in attaining this goal. Each Postdoctoral Fellow must address important scientific questions that advance their respective disciplinary fields. Under the sponsorship of Dr. Christopher R. Agnew at Purdue University, this postdoctoral fellowship award supports an early career scientist investigating a novel and integrative analysis of relationship maintenance strategies. A variety of thoughts and behaviors have been shown to promote relationship satisfaction and commitment, which, in turn, contribute to long-term stability. However, many adults are unaware of these strategies and there is a disconnect between relationship attainment and relationship sustenance. This project examines whether adults are aware of these relationship maintenance strategies, whether they perceive themselves as able to employ such strategies, and how their readiness affects these perceptions. Disseminating information on effective maintenance strategies and ways to implement them can improve relationship success and longevity. This research examines what it is that adults know about relationship maintenance strategies and how their knowledge affects their efforts to achieve a desired relationship state. The first aim in this research is to assess and validate adults’ beliefs regarding relationship maintenance strategies, including their belief in strategy efficacy and self-efficacy for maintaining relationships. Specifically, adults are provided with strategies that vary in effectiveness for maintaining relationships, and they report on their perceptions of (a) whether a specific strategy is effective and (b) their own self-efficacy in implementing the strategies. The second aim investigates whether reports of relationship maintenance efficacy and commitment readiness obtained from participants and from members of their social network predict their future relationship success. This aim involves a prospective, longitudinal design in which participants provide responses over time as they initiate a new relationships, people in their social network provide similar responses, and these are combined to predict relationship success. The third aim tests whether raising awareness of effective maintenance strategies and/or bolstering maintenance self-efficacy leads to greater likelihood of subsequent relationship initiation(s) and use of strategies. The project improves the prediction of relationship stability in a way that simultaneously improves the probability of relationship maintenance.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项是作为NSF的社会，行为和经济科学博士后研究奖学金（SPRF）计划的一部分提供的。SPRF计划的目标是为学术界，工业或私营部门和政府的科学事业准备有前途的早期职业博士级科学家。SPRF的奖励包括在知名科学家的赞助下进行两年的培训，并鼓励博士后研究员进行独立研究。NSF致力于促进来自科学界各部门的科学家，包括来自代表性不足的群体的科学家参与其研究计划和活动;博士后期间被认为是实现这一目标的专业发展的重要水平。每个博士后研究员必须解决推进各自学科领域的重要科学问题。在Christopher R.阿格纽在普渡大学，这个博士后奖学金支持一个早期的职业科学家调查一个新的和综合分析的关系维护策略。各种各样的想法和行为已经被证明可以促进关系的满意度和承诺，这反过来又有助于长期稳定。然而，许多成年人并不知道这些策略，关系的获得和关系的维持之间存在脱节。本项目探讨成年人是否意识到这些关系维护策略，他们是否认为自己能够采用这些策略，以及他们的准备如何影响这些看法。传播有效的维护策略和实施方法的信息可以改善关系的成功和长寿。本研究探讨了成年人对关系维持策略的了解，以及他们的知识如何影响他们实现理想关系状态的努力。本研究的第一个目的是评估和验证成年人对关系维持策略的信念，包括他们对维持关系的策略效能和自我效能的信念。具体而言，成年人提供的策略，不同的有效性，以维持关系，他们报告他们的看法（a）是否一个特定的策略是有效的和（B）他们自己的自我效能在执行的战略。第二个目的是调查是否报告的关系维护效能和承诺准备从参与者和他们的社会网络的成员预测他们未来的关系成功。这个目标涉及一个前瞻性的，纵向的设计，其中参与者提供响应随着时间的推移，因为他们发起了一个新的关系，人们在他们的社交网络提供类似的反应，并结合这些来预测关系的成功。第三个目标测试是否提高有效的维护策略的认识和/或支持维护自我效能导致更大的可能性，随后的关系启动（S）和使用的策略。该项目提高了关系稳定性的预测，同时提高了关系维护的概率。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。