亲密关系中的自我扩张

Self-expansion in close relationships

自我扩张理论认为,人们通过将他人的资源、观点和认同纳入自我来实现自我扩张,增强完成目标的效能感。该理论作为动机领域的新热点,研究多以亲密关系为背景。现有研究主要采用实验法和问卷法,以自我扩张动机和将他人纳入自我为基点展开,内容涉及择偶、关系质量、不忠、关系破裂和维持等方面。未来研究需进一步考察不同亲密关系类型、关系与非关系中自我扩张的运作机制,以及亲密关系双方自我扩张的相互作用。

Self-expansion theory mentions that people expand themselves by including the others’ resources, perspectives and identities into themselves to improve self-efficacy. As a new important focus of motivation researches, numerous studies have been conducted in the context of close relationships. Furthermore, most of researches about self-expansion are mainly based on self-expansion motivation and inclusion of others in the self, such as mate selection, relationship satisfaction, infidelity, relational dissolution and maintenance, according to the questionnaire and experiment. In the future, we should explore different types of close relationships and the mechanism of self-expansion in and out of close relationships, as well as the mutual effect between couples’ self-expansion.