Tesser A, Beach S R
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602-2401, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1998 Jan;74(1):36-52. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.74.1.36.
Relationships among stressful life events, negative affect, and judged quality of intimate relationships were explored. Three studies and a mini-meta-analysis revealed that as negative life events increased, judgments of close relationships gradually became less favorable, jumped back toward positivity, and then, again, gradually became less favorable. The same methods of analysis revealed a relationship between negative life events and negative affect with no evidence of significant discontinuities. Moreover, the correlation between relationship satisfaction and negative affect (with negative events held constant), was maximized at the point of relationship-judgment discontinuity. Although the findings are complex, they are consistent with the authors' theoretical account and represent an initial attempt to conceptualize the effect of negative life events in light of the recent social judgment literature.
本研究探讨了应激性生活事件、消极情绪和亲密关系质量评价之间的关系。三项研究和一项小型元分析表明，随着负面生活事件的增加，亲密关系的评价逐渐变得不那么积极，之后又迅速恢复到积极状态，然后再次逐渐变得不那么积极。同样的分析方法显示，负面生活事件与消极情绪之间存在关联，且没有明显的间断性证据。此外，在关系评价间断点处，关系满意度与消极情绪之间的相关性（控制负面事件不变）达到最大值。尽管研究结果较为复杂，但它们与作者的理论观点一致，并且是根据最近的社会判断文献，对负面生活事件的影响进行概念化的初步尝试。
