Support Behaviours in Long-Distance Relationships

远距离关系中的支持行为

• 批准号: 2751227
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2751227
• 关键词: Support; Behaviours; Long; Distance; Relationships

Support-seeking refers to how an individual elicits support from an attachment figure, and the supportprovided in response is defined as caregiving (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2016; Mikulincer, 2006). There arethree attachment styles which an individual can have towards their caregiving - secure (comfortablegiving and seeking support), avoidant (resistant to seek or provide support; Simpson et al., 1992), oranxious (excessive seeking, or hesitant if they doubt availability, ineffective caregiving; (Fraley & Shaver,1998; Mikulincer, 2006). Couples in long-distance relationships (LDRs) rarely have an option for face-tofacecommunication and therefore must employ other communication channels to seek and providesupport, like technology (Morris, 2020). Currently, there is no research assessing these supportbehaviours in LDRs, despite partner support being the best predictor or satisfaction for these couples(Freitas, 2004). Therefore, this research aims to address this gap by investigating the support-seekingbehaviours which are employed by members of long-distance relationships, whilst assessing whethercertain communication channels serve specific purposes and if these behaviours are influenced byattachment style. Additionally, the research aims to assess the influence of these behaviours onrelational and personal wellbeing. It is speculated that LDR's will rely on technology to seek support, butavoidant individuals will seek and provide less support and favour channels that do not provideimmediate responses (like email) whilst anxious individuals seek and provide excessive support usingintrusive channels (like unplanned video calls). I expect that these individuals will have lower personaland relational wellbeing due to these mistimed communications.

寻求支持指的是个体如何从依恋对象中获得支持，而作为回应提供的支持被定义为支持（Mikulincer & Shaver，2016; Mikulincer，2006）。一个人对自己的生活有三种依恋类型--安全型（舒适的给予和寻求支持），回避型（拒绝寻求或提供支持;辛普森等人，1992），或焦虑（过度寻求，或犹豫，如果他们怀疑可用性，无效的搜索;（Fraley & Shaver，1998; Mikulincer，2006）。处于远距离关系（LDR）中的夫妇很少有面对面沟通的选择，因此必须使用其他沟通渠道来寻求和提供支持，如技术（莫里斯，2020）。目前，没有研究评估这些支持行为在LDR，尽管伴侣的支持是最好的预测或满意度，这些夫妇（Freitas，2004年）。因此，本研究旨在通过调查远距离关系中成员的寻求支持行为，同时评估某些沟通渠道是否服务于特定目的以及这些行为是否受到依恋风格的影响来解决这一差距。此外，该研究旨在评估这些行为对关系和个人幸福的影响。据推测，LDR将依赖于技术来寻求支持，但回避的人将寻求和提供较少的支持，并青睐不提供即时响应的渠道（如电子邮件），而焦虑的人则使用侵入性渠道（如计划外的视频通话）寻求和提供过多的支持。我预计这些人会因为这些不合时宜的沟通而降低个人和关系的幸福感。