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Thank You for Changing: Gratitude Promotes Autonomous Motivation and Successful Partner Regulation.
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- Adult attachment and intimate relationship satisfaction among university students: the chain mediating roles of appreciation and sense of giving.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Couples-based health behavior change interventions: A relationship science perspective on the unique opportunities and challenges to improve dyadic health.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Romantic partners often attempt to improve their relationship by changing each other's traits and behaviors, but such partner regulation is often unsuccessful. We examined whether gratitude expressed by agents (i.e., partners requesting change) facilitates greater regulation success from targets (i.e., partners making change) by encouraging targets' autonomous motivation. Across studies, including observational (Study 1,
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