Associations between affect and empathic accuracy during conflict interactions in couples

Autor:	Liesbet Berlamont, Laura Sels, William Ickes, Eva Ceulemans, Céline Hinnekens, Lesley Verhofstadt
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	affective similarity FEELINGS PERCEPTIONS Sociology and Political Science Social Psychology intimate relationships Communication conflict Social Sciences THOUGHT affect MINDS SIMILARITY Developmental and Educational Psychology COGNITION empathic accuracy
Zdroj:	JOURNAL OF SOCIAL AND PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS Ghent University Academic Bibliography
ISSN:	0265-4075 1460-3608
Popis:	The current research examined how intimate partners’ affect is related, on a moment-to-moment basis, to their level of empathic accuracy during conflict interactions. To this end, we analyzed data from two laboratory-based studies ( n = 155 and n = 172 couples) in which couples participated in a conflict interaction task, followed immediately by a video-review task during which they reported on their own feelings and thoughts and inferred those of their partner at different moments in the interaction. We found that the partners’ affective similarity—for both positive (Studies 1 and 2) and negative affect (Study 2)—was related to greater perceiver empathic accuracy for both the partner’s feelings (Studies 1 and 2) and the partner’s thoughts (Study 2). The data from Study 2 also revealed a complementary effect: lower levels of empathic accuracy for feelings at moments of affective dissimilarity between the partners (i.e., when a perceiver was feeling positive while his/her partner was feeling negative).
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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