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Within-Couple Associations Between Communication and Relationship Satisfaction Over Time

Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communica...

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Autores principales: Johnson, Matthew D., Lavner, Justin A., Mund, Marcus, Zemp, Martina, Stanley, Scott M., Neyer, Franz J., Impett, Emily A., Rhoades, Galena K., Bodenmann, Guy, Weidmann, Rebekka, Bühler, Janina Larissa, Burriss, Robert Philip, Wünsche, Jenna, Grob, Alexander
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8915221/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34027722
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/01461672211016920
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Sumario:Relationship science contends that the quality of couples’ communication predicts relationship satisfaction over time. Most studies testing these links have examined between-person associations, yet couple dynamics are also theorized at the within-person level: For a given couple, worsened communication is presumed to predict deteriorations in future relationship satisfaction. We examined within-couple associations between satisfaction and communication in three longitudinal studies. Across studies, there were some lagged within-person links between deviations in negative communication to future changes in satisfaction (and vice versa). But the most robust finding was for concurrent within-person associations between negative communication and satisfaction: At times when couples experienced less negative communication than usual, they were also more satisfied with their relationship than was typical. Positive communication was rarely associated with relationship satisfaction at the within-person level. These findings indicate that within-person changes in negative communication primarily covary with, rather than predict, relationship satisfaction.