DEVELOPMENT OF COMMITMENT IN HETEROSEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS

婚姻解体对身体、经济和健康的负面影响 家庭成员的社会福祉是有据可查的，而负面的 由无行为能力的配偶抚养子女的后果 彼此相处变得越来越明显。 参与和谐和运作良好的家庭关系， 相比之下，对家庭成员的生活质量有好处的影响。 尽管健康的家庭关系很重要，但大多数研究 集中描述了已有的特征和关联 有问题的婚姻。几乎没有进行过关于如何 早期的恋爱经历预示着他们是否会发展成 令人满意和稳定的工会。 拟议研究的主要目的是通过 哪些婚前伴侣承诺，并确定有效和 研究承诺发展的可靠方法。这个 具体目标是确定人们的主观原因如何 变得忠诚会影响到后来的满意度和稳定性 研究主观过程在多大程度上 做出哪些承诺决定反映了社会、心理、 承诺理论的核心道德考量：考察 合作伙伴在做出以下决策时测试其兼容性的情况 承诺；以及确定追溯方法对 研究承诺的发展。这项研究还将审查 关系结果与其程度之间的关系 伴侣权衡承诺的社会心理原因和 做出承诺决策时的兼容性。分三个阶段的面试 对300对异性约会夫妇的研究将在一年多的时间里进行 10个月的期限。在第一阶段，受访者将在图表上进行重建 他们的承诺在他们的关系过程中发生了怎样的变化 面试的时间，将解释为什么承诺 已更改，并将完成关于承诺和关系的调查问卷 满足感。在第二阶段，受访者将参与八项 每月进行访谈，了解承诺的方式和原因 变化。在第三阶段，他们将再次重建他们的图表和 提供有关承诺和满意度的数据。

The negative impact of marital dissolution on the physical, economic, and social well-being of family members is well-documented, and the negative consequences for children of being raised by spouses who are unable to get along with each other are becoming increasingly apparent. Participation in harmonious and well-functioning family relationships, in contrast, has beneficial effects on family members' quality of life. Despite the significance of healthy family relationships, most research has focused on describing the characteristics and correlates of already troubled marriages. Virtually no research has been conducted on how early experiences in relationships predict whether they will develop into satisfying and stable unions. The primary aim of the proposed study is to examine the processes through which premarital partners become committed and to identify valid and reliable methods for studying the development of commitment. The specific aims are to determine how people's subjective reasons for becoming committed affect the later satisfactoriness and stability of relationships; to study the extent to which the subjective process by which commitment decisions are made reflects the social, psychological, and moral considerations central to theories of commitment: to examine how well partners test their compatibility as they make decisions about commitment; and to ascertain the utility of retrospective methods for studying the development of commitment. The study also will examine the connections between relationship outcomes and the degree to which partners weigh social psychological causes of commitment and compatibility when making commitment decisions. A 3-phased interview study of 300 heterosexual dating couples will be conducted over a 10-month period. During Phase 1, respondents will reconstruct on a graph how their commitment changed over the course of their relationship up to the time of the interview, will provide explanations of why commitment changed, and will complete questionnaires on commitment and relationship satisfaction. During Phase 2, respondents will participate in eight monthly interviews to get information about how and why commitment changed. In Phase 3, they will once again reconstruct their graphs and provide data on commitment and satisfaction.