ArticleFrontiers in psychology2016
Emotional Interdependence and Well-Being in Close Relationships.
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- Well-Being and Romantic Relationships: A Systematic Review in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Pooled it
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- Does Observed Conflict Recovery Play a Role in Adolescent Dating Aggression?Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2023Article
- Couples' extrinsic emotion regulation and dyadic adjustment: an actor-partner interdependence model analysis.Current psychology (New Brunswick, N.J.) · 2022Article
- Emotional interdependence: the key to studying extrinsic emotion regulation.Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS · 2022Review
- A Systematic Study into the Factors that Affect the Predictive Accuracy of Multilevel VAR(1) Models.Psychometrika · 2022Article
- The occurrence and correlates of emotional interdependence in romantic relationships.Journal of personality and social psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Emotional interdependence-here defined as partners' emotions being linked to each other across time-is often considered a key characteristic of healthy romantic relationships. But is this actually the case? We conducted an experience-sampling study with 50 couples indicating their feelings 10 times a day for 7 days and modeled emotional interdependence for each couple separately taking a dyadographic approach. The majority of couples (64%) did not demonstrate strong signs of emotional interdependence, and couples that did, showed great inter-dyad differences in their specific patterns. Individuals from emotionally more interdependent couples reported higher individual well-being than individuals from more independent couples in terms of life satisfaction but not depression. Relational well-being was not (relationship satisfaction) or even negatively (empathic concern) related to the degree of emotional interdependence. Especially driving the emotions of the partner (i.e., sender effects) accounted for these associations, opposed to following the emotions of the partner (i.e., receiver effects). Additionally, assessing emotional interdependence for positive and negative emotions separately elucidated that primarily emotional interdependence for positive emotions predicted more self-reported life satisfaction and less empathic concern. These findings highlight the existence of large inter-dyad differences, explore relationships between emotional interdependence and key well-being variables, and demonstrate differential correlates for sending and receiving emotions.
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