ArticlePersonality & social psychology bulletin2022
Within-Couple Associations Between Communication and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time.
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- Comparing Relationship Satisfaction and Body-Image-Related Quality of Life in Pregnant Women with Planned and Unplanned Pregnancies.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Does income moderate basic relationship processes?Journal of marriage and the family · 2023Article
- The role of relationship beliefs in predicting levels and changes of relationship satisfaction.European journal of personalityArticle
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Abstract
Relationship science contends that the quality of couples' communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in future relationship satisfaction. We examined within-couple associations between satisfaction and communication in three longitudinal studies. Across studies, there were some lagged within-person links between deviations in negative communication to future changes in satisfaction (and vice versa). But the most robust finding was for concurrent within-person associations between negative communication and satisfaction: At times when couples experienced less negative communication than usual, they were also more satisfied with their relationship than was typical. Positive communication was rarely associated with relationship satisfaction at the within-person level. These findings indicate that within-person changes in negative communication primarily covary with, rather than predict, relationship satisfaction.
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