Norona Jerika C, Welsh Deborah P, Olmstead Spencer B, Bliton Chloe F
Department of Psychology, College of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1404 Circle Drive, Austin Peay Building, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA.
Department of Child and Family Studies, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville, TN, USA.
Arch Sex Behav. 2017 Aug;46(6):1673-1684. doi: 10.1007/s10508-017-0971-z. Epub 2017 May 15.
Trust contributes to young people's capacity for sustaining current and future successful relationships. To date, research has yet to examine the meaning of trust in early dating relationships and reasons for its deterioration. The present study focused on video-recorded conversations about trust between 34 heterosexual adolescent couples in dating relationships living in the U.S. Transcripts from these conversations were qualitatively analyzed using thematic analysis to identify adolescents' meanings of trust and reasons they provided for a lack of trust in their romantic partners. All 34 couples identified concerns specifically related to infidelity. Six major themes for not trusting romantic partners emerged. Results suggested that the lack of trust in romantic relationships might stem from several areas that are directly and indirectly related to the current relationship, including low self-esteem, the experience of betrayal in past romantic relationships, partners' extradyadic behaviors, and gossip among peers. Importantly, peers can play a defining role in influencing young people's perceptions of their romantic partners and developing or sustaining trust in their romantic relationships.
信任有助于年轻人维持当前及未来成功恋爱关系的能力。迄今为止，研究尚未探讨早期恋爱关系中信任的意义及其恶化的原因。本研究聚焦于居住在美国的34对处于恋爱关系中的异性青少年情侣之间关于信任的视频对话。运用主题分析法对这些对话的文字记录进行定性分析，以确定青少年对信任的理解以及他们对恋爱伴侣缺乏信任的原因。所有34对情侣都指出了与不忠行为具体相关的担忧。出现了不信任恋爱伴侣的六个主要主题。结果表明，恋爱关系中缺乏信任可能源于与当前关系直接或间接相关的几个方面，包括自卑、过去恋爱关系中的背叛经历、伴侣的外部行为以及同龄人之间的流言蜚语。重要的是，同龄人在影响年轻人对恋爱伴侣的看法以及在其恋爱关系中建立或维持信任方面可能发挥决定性作用。
