Predicting Relationship Status and Satisfaction After Six Months Among Dating Couples  

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Fine, Mark A. ; JENNIFER A. SACHER

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Marriage and the Family vol. 58 no. 01 (Feb. 1996), page 21-32.
Topik: relationship status; commmitment; dating relationships; relationship satisfaction; Investments

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Perpustakaan PKPM Nomor Panggil: J43 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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This study used the investment model to predict relationship status and satisfaction among a sample of heterosexual dating couples. Both partners of 42 couples completed measures of commitment, relationship satisfaction, alternative quality, perceptions of how easy it would be to do better in another relationship than in the present one), and relationship duration at Time 1. Six months later, measures of relationship status and satisfaction were completed. On several dimensions, females had cognitions that were more relationship maintaining than did males. A path analysis did not support the investment model however, females' perceptions at Time that they had poor quality relationship alternatives predicted positive relationship status 6 months later. Time 1 scores predicted both males' and females Time relationship satisfaction, although males' Time 1 views of the relationship were more strongly predictive of females' Time 2 relationship satisfaction than vice versa. These findings suggest that females may be more invested in their relationships

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