Scholz Urte, Berli Corina, Goldammer Philippe, Lüscher Janina, Hornung Rainer, Knoll Nina
Department of Psychology, Developmental & Health Psychology, University of Konstanz.
University of Bern.
Fam Syst Health. 2013 Dec;31(4):354-65. doi: 10.1037/a0033063. Epub 2013 Aug 19.
A common form of social regulation of an individual's health behavior is social control. The contextual model of social control assumes that higher relationship quality goes along with more beneficial effects of social control on health behavior. This study examined potential differential moderating effects of different dimensions of relationship quality on the associations between positive and negative social control and smoking behavior and hiding smoking. The sample consisted of 144 smokers (n = 72 women; mean age = 31.78, SD = 10.04) with a nonsmoking partner. Positive and negative social control, dimensions of relationship quality consensus, cohesion and satisfaction, numbers of cigarettes smoked (NCS), hiding smoking (HS), and control variables were assessed at baseline. Four weeks later NCS and HS were assessed again. Only for smokers with high consensus, but not cohesion and satisfaction, a negative association between positive control and NCS emerged. Moreover, smokers with high consensus tended to report more HS when being positively and negatively socially controlled. This also emerged for cohesion and positive control. Satisfaction with the relationship did not display any interaction effects. This study's results emphasize the importance of differentiating not only between positive and negative social control but also between different dimensions of relationship quality in order to gain a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics in romantic dyads with regard to social regulation of behavioral change.
对个体健康行为进行社会调节的一种常见形式是社会控制。社会控制的情境模型假定，较高的关系质量与社会控制对健康行为产生的更有益影响相伴而生。本研究考察了关系质量的不同维度对积极和消极社会控制与吸烟行为及隐藏吸烟之间关联的潜在差异调节作用。样本由144名有非吸烟伴侣的吸烟者组成（n = 72名女性；平均年龄 = 31.78，标准差 = 10.04）。在基线时评估了积极和消极社会控制、关系质量的共识、凝聚力和满意度维度、吸烟支数（NCS）、隐藏吸烟（HS）以及控制变量。四周后再次评估NCS和HS。仅对于具有高共识但凝聚力和满意度不高的吸烟者，积极控制与NCS之间出现了负相关。此外，具有高共识的吸烟者在受到积极和消极社会控制时往往报告更多的隐藏吸烟行为。凝聚力与积极控制之间也出现了这种情况。对关系的满意度未显示出任何交互作用。本研究结果强调，不仅要区分积极和消极社会控制，还要区分关系质量的不同维度，以便全面理解浪漫伴侣关系中行为改变社会调节的动态过程。
