Dyadic effects of interpersonal perception on the quality of couple relationships: Idealization and accuracy matter

IF 1.8 3区心理学 Q2 FAMILY STUDIES

Journal of marital and family therapy Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI:10.1111/jmft.12633

Marta Salla PhD, Guillem Feixas PhD

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Interpersonal perceptions have an impact on the quality of couple relationships but we want to examine the putative moderating role of gender considering personal meanings as the target of perception. We employed the Couple's Grid to measure interpersonal perception based on personal constructs and the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (pooled regression) to analyze the mutual effects of partners' observations. We explore the dyadic effects of seven variables of interpersonal perception on relationship quality in a sample of 26 Spanish opposite-sex couples. Idealization of the partner was associated with one's own and partner's relationship quality (actor and partner effects), while being accurate in the perception of the partner's self-image was positively related to men's relationship quality but negatively related to women's (actor effects). The findings stimulate the existing debate regarding the benefits of being accurate or biased in a relationship and the need to take into account gender differences for guiding therapeutic interventions.

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人际感知对夫妻关系质量的双重影响:理想化和准确性问题

人际感知对夫妻关系的质量有影响，但考虑到个人意义作为感知的目标，我们想检查假定的性别调节作用。我们采用夫妻栅格测量基于个人构念的人际感知，采用行动者-伴侣相互依赖模型(混合回归)分析伴侣观察的相互影响。我们在26对西班牙异性伴侣的样本中探讨了人际感知的七个变量对关系质量的二元效应。对伴侣的理想化与自己和伴侣的关系质量相关(演员和伴侣效应)，而对伴侣自我形象的准确感知与男性的关系质量呈正相关，而与女性的关系质量负相关(演员效应)。这一发现激发了关于在一段关系中准确或有偏见的好处以及在指导治疗干预时考虑性别差异的必要性的现有争论。

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Journal of marital and family therapy Multiple-

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Marital & Family Therapy (JMFT) is published quarterly by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy and is one of the best known and most influential family therapy journals in the world. JMFT is a peer-reviewed journal that advances the professional understanding of marital and family functioning and the most effective psychotherapeutic treatment of couple and family distress. Toward that end, the Journal publishes articles on research, theory, clinical practice, and training in marital and family therapy.