Experimentelle Prüfung von alltäglichen Motivationsprozessen in Partnerschaften durch Ecological Momentary Interventions

本研究项目的目标是DFG项目“亲密夫妻关系中内隐动机的动态”的持续延续，该项目显示了动机对夫妻关系中短期动机和调节过程的重要性：动机倾向通过动机状态定向，选择和激励行为以实现特定目标。当达到期望的目标状态时，所经历的情感取决于当前所经历的动机状态（动机对情感的放大），这一过程路径可能解释动机倾向与关系质量之间的关联。这种由当前动机所介导的动机倾向的功能性动态作用模式是“动机满足动力学”（DynaMoS）模型的内容，这一点在上一个项目中通过对合作伙伴的微观纵向分析得到了相关证实，相关的公共动机。该研究项目以这些发现为基础，通过测试解决了DynaMoS模型过程路径因果关系的基本问题在基于智能手机的实验性微干预的帮助下，在夫妇的日常生活中（“生态瞬时干预”），假设机制的功能性作用模式。它将集中在全面了解公共动机领域内的动机系统。除了考虑时间的组成部分的过程中，具体的关系的行为和影响的表现形式将收集多模态：具体的自我和合作伙伴的报告，在经验采样将补充不引人注目的移动的传感和文本消息的内容分析。通过这个项目，我们遵循大量研究人员的集体呼吁，以实现面向未来的人格研究的当前需求：（a）研究动机、情感和认知过程的共同相互作用，（B）将微观层面的动态自我过程与宏观层面的个体间差异联系起来，（c）考虑自我过程的因果关系，特别是那些在人格特质和社会结果之间起联系作用的过程。此外，因果关系的动机微观动力学在亲密关系和日常生活中的自然评估的方法提供了一个知情的基础上，（夫妇）治疗环境中的循证干预措施的发展，适合日常使用。除了更好地了解亲密关系中的动机过程外，该项目还为心理个性、动机和关系研究以及应用实践的整合做出了重要贡献。

The goal of this research project is a consistent continuation of the DFG project "Dynamics of implicit motives in intimate couple relationships", which showed the importance of motives for short-term motivation- and regulation processes in couple relationships: Motive dispositions orient, select and energize behavior towards the attainment of specific goals via motivational states. The experienced affect when reaching the desired goal state depends on the currently experienced motivational state (affect amplification by motivation), a process path that might explain the associations between motive dispositions and relationship quality. This functional, dynamic mode of action of motive dispositions, mediated by the current motivation, is the content of the "Dynamics of Motive Satisfaction" (DynaMoS) model, which was correlatively confirmed in the previous project by micro-longitudinal analyses for partner-related communal motives.The research project builds on these findings and addresses the fundamental question of the causality of the process paths of the DynaMoS model by testing the functional mode of action of the postulated mechanisms with the help of smartphone-based experimental microinterventions in the everyday life of couples ("ecological momentary interventions"). It will focus on comprehensively understanding the motivational system within the communal motive domain. In addition to considering the temporal component of the process, the manifestations of relationship-specific behavior and affect will be collected multimodally: Specific self and partner reports in experience sampling will be complemented by unobtrusive mobile sensing and content analysis of text messages. With this project we follow the collective call of a large number of researchers to fulfill the current desiderata of a future-oriented personality research: (a) to investigate the joint interplay of motivational, affective, and cognitive processes, (b) to link the microlevel of dynamic intrapersonal processes with the macrolevel of interindividual differences, and (c) to consider the causality of intrapersonal processes, especially those processes that act as a link between personality traits and social outcomes. Additionally, the causal approach to motivational microdynamics in intimate relationships and the natural assessment in everyday life provides an informed basis for the development of evidence-based interventions in (couple-)therapeutic contexts, suitable for everyday use. In addition to a better understanding of motivational processes in intimate relationships, the project makes an important contribution to the integration of psychological personality, motivation, and relationship research, as well as applied practice.