Pusch Sebastian, Schönbrodt Felix D, Zygar-Hoffmann Caroline, Hagemeyer Birk
Institut für Psychologie, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Germany.
Department Psychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany.
Front Psychol. 2022 May 23;13:827746. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.827746. eCollection 2022.
This article presents an integrative conceptual model of motivational interdependence in couples, the MIC model. Based on theoretical tenets in motivation psychology, personality psychology, and research on interpersonal perception, the MIC model postulates that two partners' motive dispositions fundamentally interact in shaping their individual motivation and behavior. On a functional level, a partner's motivated behavior is conceptualized as an environmental cue that can contribute to an actor's motive expression and satisfaction. However, the partner's motivated behavior is considered to gain this motivational relevance only via the actor's subjective perception. Multilevel analyses of an extensive experience sampling study on partner-related communal motivation ( = up to 60,803 surveys from 508 individuals nested in 258 couples) supported the MIC model. Participants, particularly those with strong communal motive dispositions, behaved more communally at moments when they perceived their partners to behave more communally. In addition, participants experienced momentary boosts in satisfaction when they behaved more communally and, at the same time, perceived their partners' behavior as similarly communal. Broader implications of the MIC model for research on romantic relationships are discussed.
本文提出了一种夫妻间动机相互依赖的综合概念模型，即MIC模型。基于动机心理学、人格心理学的理论原则以及人际知觉研究，MIC模型假定，两个伴侣的动机倾向在塑造他们各自的动机和行为方面存在根本的相互作用。在功能层面上，伴侣的动机行为被概念化为一种环境线索，它可以促进行为者的动机表达和满足。然而，伴侣的动机行为只有通过行为者的主观感知才能获得这种动机相关性。一项关于伴侣相关的共同动机的广泛经验抽样研究（来自258对夫妻中的508个人的多达60803份调查）的多层次分析支持了MIC模型。参与者，尤其是那些具有强烈共同动机倾向的人，在他们认为伴侣表现得更具共同性的时刻，会表现得更具共同性。此外，当参与者表现得更具共同性，同时又认为伴侣的行为同样具有共同性时，他们会在瞬间体验到满意度的提升。本文还讨论了MIC模型对浪漫关系研究的更广泛影响。
