Thriving Through Relationships: A Longitudinal Investigation of Support for Thriving Over a Decade of Marriage

亲密和关怀的关系与生命各个阶段的健康和福祉息息相关。然而，亲密关系促进最佳福祉和繁荣的具体途径还没有得到很好的理解。该项目提供了一个描述影响人类繁荣的人际过程的综合理论模型。这个项目的目标是测试一个模型的社会支持和繁荣的发展，从三个文献的整合-积极的福祉文献，社会支持文献，和密切关系的文献。该模型突出了两个生活环境，通过这些生活环境，人们可能会茁壮成长，它提出了两个关系支持功能，促进在每个生活环境中茁壮成长，并确定了机制，通过关系支持可能会对茁壮成长产生长期影响。该模型是通过检查密切的关系过程中，随着时间的推移，在夫妇谁已经结婚十多年。这个观点可以帮助我们理解社会支持是如何成为一个重要的人际过程，有助于夫妻的繁荣，也有助于个人的幸福。本项目探讨了社会支持作为一个人际过程，影响繁荣的整合模型。在2005/2006年新婚的夫妇（N = 160）将在他们进入婚姻第11年时再次接受调查。纵向数据收集包括调查，目的是根据结婚头几年的观察和调查预测长期繁荣。数据收集还包括观察和生理会议，以检查关系支持功能对驱动长期繁荣结果的机制的影响，包括生理机制。数据收集还包括每日日记的组成部分，以检查关系支持功能对近端结果的影响。最后，在婚姻的第12年，夫妻将完成对繁荣的后续评估，目的是从婚姻的第11年评估的人际关系过程中前瞻性地预测繁荣。该项目为理解人际关系过程及其在繁荣中的作用以及旨在促进公共卫生的基于关系的干预措施的发展奠定了基础。这一点尤其重要，因为社会支持是美国和世界各地幸福和心理健康的主要贡献者。

Close and caring relationships are undeniably linked to health and well-being at all stages in the lifespan. Yet the specific pathways through which close relationships promote optimal well-being and thriving are not well understood. This project offers an integrative theoretical model describing interpersonal processes that influence human thriving. The goal of this project is to test a model of social support and thriving developed from an integration of three literatures - the positive well-being literature, the social support literature, and the close relationships literature. This model highlights two life contexts through which people may potentially thrive, it proposes two relational support functions that promote thriving in each life context, and it identifies mechanisms through which relational support is likely to have long-term effects on thriving. The model is tested by examining close relationship processes over time in couples who have been married for over a decade. This perspective can help us understand how social support may be a critical interpersonal process that contributes to couples' thriving, and also to individual well-being.This project examines an integrative model of social support as an interpersonal process that influences thriving. Couples (N = 160) who were newly married in 2005/2006 will again be investigated as they enter their 11th year of marriage. A longitudinal data collection includes surveys with the aim of predicting long-term thriving from observations and surveys obtained in the first years of marriage. The data collection also includes an observational and physiological session to examine the effects of relational support functions on mechanisms that drive long-term thriving outcomes, including physiological mechanisms. The data collection also includes a daily diary component to examine the effects of relational support functions on proximal outcomes. Lastly, in the 12th year of marriage, couples will complete follow-up assessments of thriving with the aim of prospectively predicting thriving from the interpersonal processes assessed in the 11th year of marriage. This project provides a foundation for understanding interpersonal processes and their role in thriving, and the development of relationship-based interventions aimed at promoting public health. This is especially important because social support is a major contributor to well-being and mental health in the U.S. and across the world.