Perceived regard and relationship resilience

描述（由申请人提供）：为了满足特定关系中的安全感目标，人们需要相信他们的伴侣看到了他们值得关注的品质，养育，和照顾。然而，受性格不安全感困扰的人，如低自尊或与依恋相关的焦虑，低估了伴侣对他们特定特征的积极看法，甚至低估了伴侣对他们的爱。该提案探讨了由此产生的安全感需求的激活如何影响新婚夫妇参与情感，认知和行为调节策略的能力，这些策略对持续的婚姻满意度至关重要。首先，该提案研究了感觉或多或少被积极看待如何影响人们在特定事件中感知接受或拒绝迹象的日常阈值（评估敏感性），对拒绝的日常关注如何影响人们的自尊（自尊敏感性），以及感觉或多或少被积极看待如何影响行为策略（即，相互依赖和适应调节），以减轻每天被拒绝的痛苦。第二，该提案审查了如何以及为什么 这些人内签名或反应概况随着时间的推移而变化，以及它们如何与人们对自己和他人的印象的长期变化以及他们婚姻的长期幸福有关。 计划对新婚夫妇进行纵向每日日记研究。这对夫妇将连续4年完成14天的电子日记和关系功能评估。每日日记将被设计为提供多少拒绝被解读为事件的人内测量，多少感知到的拒绝威胁自尊的人内测量，以及每个人如何对被拒绝的感觉做出行为反应的人内测量。然后，这些微过程指数将被用来预测夫妻的关系轨迹，朝着增加，稳定或减少个人和关系幸福。除了阐明依恋和相互依赖调节的动态外，这项研究还可能促进临床干预措施的发展，例如促进对伴侣积极关注和无条件接受的洞察，从而避免有害的互动模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): To satisfy felt security goals in a specific relationship, people need to believe that their partner sees qualities in them that merit attention, nurturance, and care. However, people troubled by dispositional insecurities, such as low self-esteem or attachment-related anxiety, underestimate how positively their partner sees them on specific traits and even underestimate how much their partner loves them. This proposal examines how the resulting activation of felt security needs affects newlyweds' capacity to engage in the affective, cognitive, and behavioral regulation strategies critical for continued marital satisfaction. First, the proposal examines how feeling more or less positively regarded affects people's day-to-day threshold for perceiving signs of acceptance or rejection in specific events (appraisal sensitivity), how day-to-day concerns about rejection affect people's self-esteem (self-esteem sensitivity), and how feeling more or less positively regarded affects the behavioral strategies (i.e., interdependence and accommodation regulation) people adopt to alleviate the sting of rejection on a day-to-day basis. Second, the proposal examines how and why these within-person signatures or response profiles change over time, and how they relate to long-term changes in people's impressions of themselves and others, and to the long-term well-being of their marriage. A longitudinal daily diary study of newlywed couples is planned. Both members of the couple will complete 14-day electronic diaries and relationship-functioning assessments for 4 consecutive years. The daily diaries will be designed to provide within-person measures of how much rejection is read into events, within person measures of how much perceived rejections threaten self-esteem, and within-person measures of how each person responds behaviorally to feeling rejected. These micro-process indices will then be used to predict the relationship trajectories couples take, toward increasing, stable, or decreasing individual and relationship well-being. Apart from shedding light on the dynamics of attachment and interdependence regulation, this research might also facilitate the development of clinical interventions, such as fostering insight into a partner's positive regard and unconditional acceptance that might circumvent harmful interaction patterns.