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Marriage as a training ground: Examining change in self-control and forgiveness over the first 4 years of marriage

Do partners’ levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage? Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship abilities, we hypothesized that people increase their levels of self-control and forgiveness over time and that these...

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Autores principales: Pronk, Tila M., Buyukcan-Tetik, Asuman, Iliás, Marina M.A.H., Finkenauer, Catrin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30595617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517721065
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description Do partners’ levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage? Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship abilities, we hypothesized that people increase their levels of self-control and forgiveness over time and that these developments take place simultaneously. We tested these predictions among 199 newlywed couples in the first 4 years of marriage, using a dyadic latent growth curves analysis. Confirming our hypotheses, results showed significant increases in self-control and forgiveness as well as a positive concurrent correlation between these variables. However, the developments of self-control and forgiveness were unrelated. So, while people become more self-controlled and forgiving over the course of a marriage, these developments do not coincide.
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spelling pubmed-62934402018-12-26 Marriage as a training ground: Examining change in self-control and forgiveness over the first 4 years of marriage Pronk, Tila M. Buyukcan-Tetik, Asuman Iliás, Marina M.A.H. Finkenauer, Catrin J Soc Pers Relat Articles Do partners’ levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage? Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship abilities, we hypothesized that people increase their levels of self-control and forgiveness over time and that these developments take place simultaneously. We tested these predictions among 199 newlywed couples in the first 4 years of marriage, using a dyadic latent growth curves analysis. Confirming our hypotheses, results showed significant increases in self-control and forgiveness as well as a positive concurrent correlation between these variables. However, the developments of self-control and forgiveness were unrelated. So, while people become more self-controlled and forgiving over the course of a marriage, these developments do not coincide. SAGE Publications 2017-07-24 2019-01 /pmc/articles/PMC6293440/ /pubmed/30595617 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517721065 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293440/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30595617
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0265407517721065
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