Relationship social comparisons in dating and marital relationships: Adding relationship social comparison interpretations
| Autor: | Tamara A. Sucharyna, Marian M. Morry |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Social comparison theory
Mediation (statistics) Variables Social Psychology media_common.quotation_subject Self 05 social sciences 050109 social psychology Cognition 050105 experimental psychology Relationship Type Happiness 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Quality (business) Psychology Social psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of Social Psychology. 159:398-416 |
| ISSN: | 1940-1183 0022-4545 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00224545.2018.1498826 |
| Popis: | How an individual interprets a relationship social comparison may have important implications for the self and one's relationship. We asked whether these interpretations significantly mediated the relation between the manipulated social comparison direction and relationship satisfaction, relationship commitment, satisfaction with life, and happiness for both dating (Studies 1 and 2) and married (Study 2) individuals. Participants were randomly assigned to make an upward or downward comparison to a friend's romantic relationship and completed measures of their interpretations, relationship quality, satisfaction with life, and happiness. For both dating and married individuals, there were indirect effects of manipulated social comparison direction through the interpretations for all dependent variables. Although there were some differences in mediation for married and dating individuals, the effect sizes were not significantly different. |
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