Department of Psychology.
Department of Business Administration, South China Agricultural University.
J Fam Psychol. 2018 Apr;32(3):366-374. doi: 10.1037/fam0000380. Epub 2018 Mar 8.
In intimate relationships, spousal support (or dyadic coping) can directly benefit relationships (i.e., direct effect) and protect the relationship against the negative spillover effects of stress (i.e., buffer effect). As stress-coping theories suggest, both processes can vary between persons as well as within persons. However, empirically, this distinction is not always made explicit, resulting in potentially misleading conclusions about dyadic stress-coping processes. In the current study, we investigated stress and coping processes in couples at both between- and within-person levels. Participants were 84 Chinese dual-earning couples (N = 168 individuals) participated in a 7-day diary study. Between persons, our multilevel analyses replicated well-established buffering effects: The link between average stress and relationship outcomes was reduced if the partner provided more support on average. Within persons, results implied a significant buffer effect only in women; their relationship satisfaction was highest on days when they experienced higher levels of stress and higher levels of partner support. The present findings demonstrate how distinguishing between- and within-person effects can provide a better conceptual understanding of dyadic processes in intimate relationships while examining stress-coping associations in an understudied group. (PsycINFO Database Record
在亲密关系中，配偶支持（或对偶应对）可以直接有益于关系（即直接效应），并保护关系免受压力的负面溢出效应（即缓冲效应）。正如压力应对理论所表明的，这两个过程在人与人之间以及人与人之间都可能有所不同。然而，从经验上看，这种区别并不总是明确的，这可能导致对偶压力应对过程的结论产生误导。在本研究中，我们在个体间和个体内两个层面上研究了夫妻的压力和应对过程。84 对中国双职工夫妇（N=168 人）参与了为期 7 天的日记研究。在个体间，我们的多层次分析复制了成熟的缓冲效应：如果伴侣平均提供更多的支持，平均压力与关系结果之间的联系就会减少。在个体内，结果仅在女性中暗示了一个显著的缓冲效应；当她们经历更高水平的压力和更高水平的伴侣支持时，她们的关系满意度最高。本研究结果表明，区分个体间和个体内效应如何在研究压力应对关联的同时，为亲密关系中的对偶过程提供更好的概念理解。（PsycINFO 数据库记录）
