The Dynamic Structure of Relationship Perceptions : Differential Importance as A Strategy of Relationship Maintenance  

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Karney, Benjamin R. ; Neff, Lisa A.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin (http://journals.sagepub.com/home/pspc) vol. 29 no. 11 (2003), page 1433-1446.
Topik: marital; relationship maintenance; cognitive structure; differential importance; marital quality
Fulltext: 1433PSPB2911.pdf (128.5KB)

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How do couples maintain relationship satisfaction despite specific negative perceptions of their relationships ? One way to minimize the global implications of negative perceptions is to attribute differential importance to positive and negative features of the relationship. As those features change over time, satisfied intimates may alter their perceived importance, ensuring that positive features are always more closely associated with global satisfaction than negative ones. The current study examined the specific perceptions of 82 newly married couples at five assessments across their first 3 years of marriage. A tendency to view positive perceptions as more important than negative perceptions was associated with higher marital satisfaction. Moreover, a tendency to alter the importance of specific perceptions as those perceptions changed over time was associated with more stable global satisfaction. These findings highlight the interplay between the content and the structure of intimates' perceptions in determining relationship outcomes.

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