Ogolsky Brian G, Gray Christine R
Department of Human and Community Development, The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Department of Family and Child Development, Texas State University.
J Fam Psychol. 2016 Mar;30(2):171-80. doi: 10.1037/fam0000148. Epub 2015 Aug 31.
The literature on relationship maintenance has focused primarily on the beneficial outcomes of maintenance, and, as a result, little is known about relational processes that may interfere with reports of partners' maintenance. The authors examine how daily conflict influences individuals' reports of their partners' maintenance, and how a constructive communication style buffers this influence by reducing negative emotion on conflict days. In a daily diary study of 98 same-sex couples in romantic relationships, they found that the negative association between conflict and reports of a partner's relationship maintenance was mediated by negative emotion. That is, there was an indirect effect by which daily conflict was associated with higher levels of daily negative emotion, which was associated with reports of lower levels of partners' relationship maintenance. This indirect effect was moderated by couples' overall level of constructive communication such that higher levels diminished the degree to which couples experienced negative emotion on days with episodes of relational conflict. The authors discuss results in the context of interpersonal theory and provide implications for clinicians and practitioners.
关于关系维持的文献主要聚焦于维持关系所带来的有益结果，因此，对于可能干扰伴侣关系维持报告的关系过程知之甚少。作者们研究了日常冲突如何影响个体对其伴侣关系维持情况的报告，以及建设性沟通风格如何通过减少冲突日的负面情绪来缓冲这种影响。在一项对98对处于浪漫关系中的同性伴侣的日记研究中，他们发现冲突与伴侣关系维持报告之间的负相关是由负面情绪介导的。也就是说，存在一种间接效应，即日常冲突与更高水平的日常负面情绪相关，而更高水平的日常负面情绪又与更低水平的伴侣关系维持报告相关。这种间接效应受到伴侣总体建设性沟通水平的调节，即更高水平的建设性沟通会减少伴侣在关系冲突事件发生日所体验到的负面情绪程度。作者们在人际理论的背景下讨论了研究结果，并为临床医生和从业者提供了启示。
