Institute of Developmental Psychology.
School of Social Work.
J Fam Psychol. 2018 Oct;32(7):986-991. doi: 10.1037/fam0000448. Epub 2018 Jul 23.
We examined the mediating roles of communication and marital affect in the association between marital quality and neuroticism. Guided by the social investment theory and the personality-relationship transactions model, we tested the actor-partner interdependence mediation model to examine the associations among the variables. Participants were 268 Chinese newlywed couples who were a maximum of 3 years into their first marriage. The path model indicated that, first, both spouses' marital quality at Time 1 was related with their own neuroticism at Time 3 after controlling for confounding variables. However, after controlling for neuroticism at Time 1, husbands' marital quality was not directly associated with their own neuroticism. Second, for wives, communication and marital affect at Time 2 fully mediated the association between marital quality and neuroticism. Conversely, for husbands, the multiple specific indirect effects were not significant. These findings suggest that communication and marital affect are mediators underlying the association between marital quality and neuroticism. Moreover, the potential mechanisms underlying the relationship effects differ between husbands and wives. The implications and future directions of these results were discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).
我们考察了沟通和婚姻情感在婚姻质量和神经质之间的关系中的中介作用。本研究以社会投资理论和人格-关系交互作用模型为指导，采用演员-伙伴相互依赖的中介模型来检验变量之间的关系。研究参与者是 268 对处于婚姻头 3 年的中国新婚夫妇。路径模型表明，首先，在控制了混杂变量后，夫妻双方在第 1 时间的婚姻质量与他们在第 3 时间的神经质呈正相关。然而，在控制了第 1 时间的神经质后，丈夫的婚姻质量与他们自身的神经质没有直接关联。其次，对于妻子来说，第 2 时间的沟通和婚姻情感完全中介了婚姻质量和神经质之间的关系。相反，对于丈夫来说，多重特定的间接效应不显著。这些发现表明，沟通和婚姻情感是婚姻质量和神经质之间关系的中介。此外，丈夫和妻子之间的关系效应的潜在机制不同。讨论了这些结果的意义和未来方向。
