Durtschi Jared A, Fincham Frank D, Cui Ming, Lorenz Frederick O, Conger Rand D
School of Family Studies and Human Services, Kansas State University.
Department of Family and Child Sciences, Florida State University.
Fam Relat. 2011 Oct;60(4):421-434. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-3729.2011.00655.x. Epub 2011 Sep 1.
Marital processes in early marriage are important for understanding couples' future marital quality. Spouses' attributions about a partner's behavior have been linked to marital quality, yet the mechanisms underlying this association remain largely unknown. Using couple data from the Family Transitions Project (N = 280 couples) across the first four years of marriage, results from actor-partner interdependence modeling demonstrated that early marriage responsibility attributions were associated with marital quality four years later, after controlling for initial marital quality. Further, couple's warm and hostile behavior two years into the marriage mediated the attribution-marital quality association. The results suggest that interventions designed to facilitate change in romantic relationships may benefit from addressing attributions for the partner's behavior, in addition to changing behaviors, as part of a dyadic process unfolding across time.
新婚初期的婚姻过程对于理解夫妻未来的婚姻质量至关重要。配偶对伴侣行为的归因与婚姻质量相关，但这种关联背后的机制在很大程度上仍不为人知。利用来自家庭转变项目（N = 280对夫妻）新婚头四年的夫妻数据，行为者-伴侣相互依赖模型的结果表明，在控制了初始婚姻质量之后，新婚初期的责任归因与四年后的婚姻质量相关。此外，结婚两年时夫妻的温暖和敌对行为介导了归因与婚姻质量之间的关联。结果表明，旨在促进恋爱关系变化的干预措施，除了改变行为之外，可能还会受益于解决对伴侣行为的归因问题，这是一个随着时间推移而展开的二元过程的一部分。
