情绪分享和感知恋人回应对亲密关系满意度的影响

The Influence of Emotion Sharing and Perceived Partner Responsiveness on Intimacy Relationship Satisfaction

研究通过问卷星收集了150对异性恋情侣的情绪分享、感知恋人回应、亲密关系满意度的数据,并采用行动者-对象互依模型进行统计分析。结果显示:(1)情绪分享通过感知恋人回应的中介作用影响亲密关系满意度。女性的积极情绪分享与男性的消极情绪分享直接正向影响自身亲密关系满意度。(2)男性的积极情绪分享正向影响女性的亲密关系满意度。研究揭示了亲密关系中情绪分享和感知恋人回应对关系满意度的影响特点。

Purposes:as a social animal species,human have abundant emotions.When people come across emotional events,they have a desire to share these events and their emotions with others.Emotion Sharing can bring many positive effects,such as emotion recovery,pain relief,positive emotion enhancement and social fusion.Compared with other relationship types,more emotions are shared in romantic relationship,and which influences relationship satisfaction.Emotion can be divided into two types:positive emotion and negative emotion.Depending on if the emotion arises in social context,emotion divided into personal emotion and relational emotion.In the interpersonal process model of intimacy,perceived partner responsiveness is also an important variable:the mediation variable in this study.It refers to perceiving the understanding,care and appreciation of the listener.The more responsiveness one perceives from the partner,the more satisfied one becomes with the romantic relationship.It can create and maintain trust and intimacy in a relationship,increase the partner’s confidence in accepting their feelings,meet the internal needs of interpersonal belonging,intimacy and secure attachment.According to interdependency theory,two partners in a romantic relationship are not independent individuals,they have a strong interdependence.This study treats a couple as an integral unit in data analysis.The method is used for exploring the influence of Emotion Sharing on romantic relationship.The influence of emotion valence on relationship between emotion sharing and relationship satisfaction remains largely unexplored.This study is aimed at exploring the influence of positive and negative emotion sharing on relation satisfaction in romantic relationships.The role of perceived partner responsiveness is also investigated.Method:155 romantic dyads participated in our study.They completed SSE scale,perceived partner responsiveness scale and intimacy satisfaction scale.We adopted Actor-Partner Interdependence Model(APMI)to verify actor effect,partner effect and mediation of perceived partner responsiveness.Results:With positive emotion,the mediated actor effect was significant.Male positive emotion sharing significantly influenced their relationship satisfaction,which was fully mediated by perceived partner responsiveness.Female positive emotion sharing significantly influenced their relationship satisfaction,which was partially mediated by perceived partner responsiveness.Partner effect was partially significant.Male positive emotion sharing directly and positively influenced their partner’s relationship satisfaction.However,female positive emotion sharing did not influence their partner’s relationship satisfaction.With negative emotion,the mediated actor effect was significant.Male negative emotion sharing significantly influenced their relationship satisfaction,which was partially mediated by perceived partner responsiveness.Female negative emotion sharing significantly influenced their relationship satisfaction,which was fully mediated by perceived partner responsiveness.Partner effects were not significant.Results showed that in romantic relationships,romantic partners were interdependent,Emotion Sharing influenced relationship satisfaction through perceived partner responsiveness.However,the influence of different emotions on relationship satisfaction differed between male and female.When couples shared positive emotions,women were more likely to be affected.In the process of emotion communication,both need to trust,understand and tolerate the counterpart.Only by doing this,romantic partners can be satisfied with their intimacy,and their relationship can healthily develop for a long time.