Perceived regard and relationship resilience

感知尊重和关系弹性

• 批准号: 6897168
• 负责人: Sandra L. Murray
• 金额: $ 34.52万
• 依托单位: STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BUFFALO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6897168
• 关键词: behavioral /social science research tag; clinical research; coping; dyadic interaction; emotional adjustment; emotional dependency; human subject; impression; interpersonal relations; longitudinal human study; love /affection; personal log /diary; psychological adaptation; psychological stressor; questionnaires; self concept; social behavior; social perception; social psychology

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：为了在一段特定的关系中满足安全感目标，人们需要相信他们的伴侣在他们身上看到了值得关注、培养和关心的品质。然而，受性格不安全感困扰的人，比如低自尊或依恋相关的焦虑，低估了伴侣在特定特征上对他们的积极看法，甚至低估了伴侣对他们的爱。本研究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信号的日常阈值（评价敏感性），对拒绝的日常担忧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，人们在日常生活中采用相互依赖和适应规则来减轻被拒绝的痛苦。其次，该提案探讨了如何以及为什么