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We preregister a research project (“Motivationale Interdependenz in intimen Partnerschaften”) that is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). We focus here on the main research questions, the study design, and the employed methods. A theoretical model (MIC model; see Pusch et al., 2022) is tested that postulates motivational and cognitive mechanisms to explain the interdependence of motivational dispositions in couple relationships. The motives of the partner are conceptualized as environmental conditions that affect the motivational process of the actor in (1) the phase of motive expression and (2) the subsequent phase of motive satisfaction. Since the partner's dispositional motives (as well as current motivations) are hypothetical constructs and thus not directly observable, their effects on the actor's motivation process must be mediated via observable partner behavior and the actor's subjective perception of it. Core assumptions of the MIC model were already corroborated by correlational studies (Pusch et al., 2020, 2021, 2022). The current research project aims to investigate the main causal relations implied in the MIC model with an experimental and observational design. |
