AUTHENTICITY AND POSITIVITY STRIVINGS IN MARRIAGE AND COURTSHIP

被引:322
作者
SWANN, WB [1 ]
DELARONDE, C [1 ]
HIXON, JG [1 ]
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[1] UNIV CONNECTICUT,DEPT PSYCHOL,HARTFORD,CT 06112
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10.1037/0022-3514.66.5.857
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B84 [心理学];
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04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
We proposed that married persons would want their spouses to see them as they saw themselves but that dating persons would want their relationship partners to evaluate them favorably. A survey of 176 married and dating couples tested these predictions. Just as married persons were most intimate with spouses whose evaluations verified their self-views, dating persons were most intimate with partners who evaluated them favorably. For married people with negative self-views, then, intimacy increased as their spouses evaluated them more negatively. Marriage apparently precipitates a shift from a desire for positive evaluations to a desire for self-verifying evaluations.
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