Department of Psychology.
School of Family Life, Brigham Young University.
J Fam Psychol. 2020 Feb;34(1):1-11. doi: 10.1037/fam0000566. Epub 2019 Aug 8.
Spouses perceiving that they have shared power in marriage has been linked to higher marital quality and attachment security. Existing research, however, is limited in assessing how these perceptions influence both spouses and whether these influences endure over time. To address these limitations, we analyzed the longitudinal relationship reports from 319 couples from the Flourishing Families Project (FFP) to estimate biyearly (Waves 1, 3, and 5) and yearly (Waves 3-5) longitudinal actor-partner interdependence models. Reporting shared power in marriage was linked to the actors' higher marital quality and lower attachment insecurity over time (although less consistently for attachment insecurity). Longitudinal partner effects and indirect effects were also found from reports of shared marital power on both marital quality and attachment insecurity over time. The combined evidence suggests that power dynamics in a marriage are an important predictor of changes in couples' overall relational well-being. Accordingly, marriages appear to benefit from husbands and wives mutually seeking to help each other feel empowered in a relationship as equal and full partners. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
配偶双方认为他们在婚姻中拥有平等的权力，这与更高的婚姻质量和更安全的依恋关系有关。然而，现有研究在评估这些看法如何影响夫妻双方，以及这些影响是否会随着时间的推移而持续存在方面存在局限性。为了解决这些局限性，我们分析了来自“繁荣家庭项目”（FFP）的 319 对夫妇的纵向关系报告，以估计每两年（第 1、3 和 5 波）和每年（第 3-5 波）的纵向主体-伙伴相互依存模型。随着时间的推移，报告婚姻中共同拥有权力与主体的更高婚姻质量和更低的依恋不安全感有关（尽管对依恋不安全感的影响不太一致）。从报告的共同婚姻权力对婚姻质量和依恋不安全感的纵向伙伴效应和间接效应也随着时间的推移而发现。综合证据表明，婚姻中的权力动态是夫妻整体关系幸福感变化的一个重要预测因素。因此，婚姻似乎受益于丈夫和妻子相互寻求帮助对方在关系中感到有权力，作为平等和完整的伴侣。
