Ideal Standards, Acceptance, and Relationship Satisfaction: Latitudes of Differential Effects

Autor: Catrin Finkenauer, Lorne Campbell, Johan C. Karremans, Asuman Buyukcan-Tetik, Gesa Kappen
Přispěvatelé: Youth in Changing Cultural Contexts, Social Psychology
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Psychology, Vol 8 (2017)
Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers in Psychology, 8(SEP):1691. Frontiers Media
Buyukcan-Tetik, A, Campbell, L, Finkenauer, C, Karremans, J C & Kappen, G 2017, ' Ideal standards, acceptance, and relationship satisfaction : Latitudes of differential effects ', Frontiers in Psychology, vol. 8, no. SEP, 1691 . https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01691
Frontiers in Psychology, 8. Frontiers Media S.A.
Frontiers in Psychology, 8
ISSN: 1664-1078
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01691/full
Popis: Contains fulltext : 176738.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access) We examined whether the relations of consistency between ideal standards and perceptions of a current romantic partner with partner acceptance and relationship satisfaction level off, or decelerate, above a threshold. We tested our hypothesis using a three-year longitudinal data set collected from heterosexual newlywed couples. We used two indicators of consistency: pattern correspondence (within-person correlation between ideal standards and perceived partner ratings) and mean-level match (difference between ideal standards score and perceived partner score). Our results revealed that pattern correspondence had no relation with partner acceptance, but a positive linear/exponential association with relationship satisfaction. Mean-level match had a significant positive association with actor's acceptance and relationship satisfaction up to the point where perceived partner score equaled ideal standards score. Partner effects did not show a consistent pattern. The results suggest that the consistency between ideal standards and perceived partner attributes has a nonlinear association with acceptance and relationship satisfaction, although the results were more conclusive for mean-level match. 11 p.
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