Jolin Stéphanie, Lafontaine Marie-France, Lussier Yvan, Brassard Audrey
School of Psychology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada.
Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada.
Emerg Adulthood. 2023 Apr;11(2):482-496. doi: 10.1177/21676968221128080. Epub 2022 Sep 20.
Early romantic relationships are salient to the development of healthy future relationships. Yet, little is known about the evolution of romantic relationships of emerging adults since most of the research has been conducted on married or well-established couples. The current study aims to examine how relationship satisfaction and negative communication evolve and are interrelated during emerging adulthood. Using age as a time metric, we conducted group-based dual trajectory modeling analyses on 1566 unmarried Canadian individuals (from 17 to 24 years old) in a relationship, who could either stay with the same partner or change partner over time. A four-group model for relationship satisfaction and a four-group model for negative communication were found. Dual analyses highlighted the high concordance between specific trajectories of both constructs. These findings demonstrate that relationship satisfaction and negative communication do not evolve in the same ways for everyone and provide useful insights to existing clinical interventions.
早期浪漫关系对未来健康关系的发展至关重要。然而，由于大多数研究是针对已婚或关系稳定的夫妻进行的，对于刚成年的年轻人浪漫关系的演变了解甚少。本研究旨在探讨在刚成年阶段，关系满意度和负面沟通是如何演变以及它们之间是如何相互关联的。以年龄作为时间度量，我们对1566名处于恋爱关系中的未婚加拿大个体（年龄在17至24岁之间）进行了基于群体的双轨迹建模分析，这些个体可能会与同一伴侣保持关系，也可能随着时间推移更换伴侣。我们发现了一个关于关系满意度的四组模型和一个关于负面沟通的四组模型。双重分析突出了这两个构念特定轨迹之间的高度一致性。这些发现表明，关系满意度和负面沟通并非以相同方式在每个人身上演变，并且为现有的临床干预提供了有用的见解。
