Drinking motives and drinking behaviors in romantic couples: A longitudinal actor-partner interdependence model.

This study examines childhood emotional maltreatment as a developmental predictor of psychological aggression perpetration in young adult dating couples, using a dyadic framework to account for individual and partner effects. We further investigate observations of skillful emotion communication (i.e., discussion of emotional experiences, including emotion identification and disclosure) as potential moderator. In a sample of 60 young adult romantic couples, actor–partner interdependence model analyses found significant actor effects of emotional maltreatment on psychological aggression perpetration, but no partner effects. Consistent with hypotheses, observations of higher skillful emotion communication attenuated associations between childhood emotional maltreatment and young adult psychological aggression, but only for female participants. Findings are discussed in the context of implications for prevention and intervention for couples at risk of psychological aggression.

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Depression, emotion regulation, and the demand/withdraw pattern during intimate relationship conflict

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ◽

10.1177/0265407517733334 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 408-430 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Sarah R. Holley ◽

Claudia M. Haase ◽

Irene Chui ◽

Lian Bloch

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Online Survey ◽

Intimate Relationship ◽

Relationship Conflict ◽

Model Framework ◽

Romantic Couples ◽

Communication Behaviors ◽

Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽

Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽

Demand Withdraw

The demand/withdraw pattern is a detrimental set of communication behaviors in which one partner nags or pressures while the other partner avoids or withdraws. Past studies evaluating the influence of depression on this pattern have shown mixed findings. The present study sought to advance what is known by investigating whether difficulties in emotion regulation mediated the association between depression and the demand/withdraw pattern. A sample of 253 romantic couples participated in an online survey. Data were analyzed using a mediated actor–partner interdependence model framework. Results indicated that the association between an individual’s level of depression and his or her tendency to withdraw while the partner demanded was fully mediated by difficulties in emotion regulation. This study supports the notion that there is a link between depression and the demand/withdraw pattern and further suggests that difficulties in emotion regulation may play an important role in understanding elements of this association.

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Dark Triad Traits and Mate Retention Behaviors in Romantic Couples: The Actor–Partner Interdependence Model

Evolutionary Psychology ◽

10.1177/1474704919887703 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 147470491988770

Author(s):

Igor Kardum ◽

Jasna Hudek-Knezevic ◽

Nermina Mehic

Keyword(s):

Dark Triad ◽

Romantic Couples ◽

Men And Women ◽

Mate Retention ◽

Actor Partner Interdependence Model ◽

Almost All

By using actor–partner interdependence modeling (APIM), we examined the effects of the Dark Triad traits, psychopathy, narcissism, and Machiavellianism on two mate retention (MR) domains, cost-inflicting (C-I B) and benefit-provisioning behaviors (B-P B) as well as overall mate retention (OMR) on the sample of 100 heterosexual romantic couples. These effects were examined first without and then with the control of the overlap between the traits. The results show that actor effects of the Dark Triad traits on MR were stronger in men, and regarding partner effects, the Dark Triad traits in men exerted more frequent MR in women than women’s Dark Triad traits in men. In line with our prediction, psychopathy had the strongest actor and partner effects on MR behaviors, both in men and women. Considering MR domains, we found actor effects on C-I B only in men, whereas actor effects on B-P B in both men and women. The Dark Triad traits, especially in men, exerted stronger partner effects on C-I B than on B-P B domain. Almost all actor and partner effects of psychopathy and narcissism remained significant after the control for the overlap between the traits, whereas all actor effects of Machiavellianism became nonsignificant. In both sets of analyses, without and with the control for the overlap between these traits, the most frequent plausible dyadic patterns were actor-only and couple pattern.

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