Berlamont Liesbet, Hodges Sara, Sels Laura, Ceulemans Eva, Ickes William, Hinnekens Céline, Verhofstadt Lesley
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium.
Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, 9000 Ghent, Belgium.
Motiv Emot. 2023;47(2):208-228. doi: 10.1007/s11031-022-09982-x. Epub 2022 Nov 9.
The aim of this study was to broadly investigate the role of relationship-, self-, and partner-serving motivation in empathic accuracy in couples' conflict interactions. To this end, a laboratory study was set up in which couples ( = 172) participated in a conflict interaction task, followed immediately by a video-review task during which they reported their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner to assess empathic accuracy. We used both trait and state measures of relationship-, self-, and partner-serving motivation, and we experimentally induced these three categories of motivation. Relationship-serving state motivation predicted greater empathic accuracy. In contrast, experimentally induced partner-serving motivation resulted in less empathic accuracy for men. Self-serving motivation was not found to be associated with empathic accuracy, nor were any of the trait measures. These findings underscore the complexity of the association between motivation and empathic accuracy in partners' conflict interactions.
The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11031-022-09982-x.
本研究的目的是广泛调查关系动机、自我动机和有利于伴侣的动机在夫妻冲突互动中的共情准确性方面的作用。为此，开展了一项实验室研究，172对夫妻参与了冲突互动任务，随后立即进行视频回顾任务，在此期间他们报告自己的感受和想法，并推断伴侣的感受和想法以评估共情准确性。我们使用了关系动机、自我动机和有利于伴侣的动机的特质和状态测量方法，并通过实验诱导这三类动机。有利于关系的状态动机预示着更高的共情准确性。相比之下，实验诱导的有利于伴侣的动机导致男性的共情准确性较低。未发现自我动机与共情准确性相关，特质测量也均未发现相关性。这些发现强调了伴侣冲突互动中动机与共情准确性之间关联的复杂性。
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