Perceptions of Conflict and Support in Romantic Relationships: The Role of Attachment Anxiety.

Campbell, Lorne; Simpson, Jeffry A.; Boldry, Jennifer G.; Kashy, Deborah A.

doi:10.1037/0022-3514.88.3.510

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“…It seems likely that evidence and feedback play some role in updating expectancies. Expectancies also likely have some deeper core tracing back to basic working models for the self, others, and relationships that are built up over the course of a lifetime (e.g., Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005). Baldwin and Keelan (1999) argued that individuals higher in trait self-esteem had more positive interpersonal expectancies about their own ability to secure affiliation from others.…”

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Assertiveness expectancies: How hard people push depends on the consequences they predict.

Ames¹

2008

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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The present article seeks to explain varying levels of assertiveness in interpersonal conflict and negotiations with assertiveness expectancies, idiosyncratic predictions people make about the social and instrumental consequences of assertive behavior. This account complements motivation-based models of assertiveness and competitiveness, suggesting that individuals may possess the same social values (e.g., concern for relationships) but show dramatically different assertiveness due to different assumptions about behavioral consequences. Results clarify the form of assertiveness expectancies, namely that most people assume increasing assertiveness can yield positive social and instrumental benefits up to a point, beyond which benefits decline. However, people vary in how assertive this perceived optimal point is. These individual differences in expectancies are linked in 4 studies to assertiveness, including selfreported assertiveness, rated behavioral preferences in assorted interpersonal conflict scenarios, partner ratings of participants' behavior in a face-to-face dyadic negotiation, and work colleague ratings of participants' assertiveness in the workplace. In each case, the link between expectancies and behavior remained after controlling for values. The results suggest a place for expectancies alongside values in psychological models of interpersonal assertiveness.

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Section: Lessons For Studying Assertiveness Expectanciesmentioning

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Assertiveness expectancies: How hard people push depends on the consequences they predict.

Ames¹

2008

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…Research on adult attachment has shown that anxiously attached individuals tend to interpret their partners' conflict behavior more negatively than securely attached individuals (Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005;Simpson, Rholes, & Phillips, 1996), which can then affect conflict behavior. Similarly, those who do not feel valued by their partners respond more negatively to relationship threats (Murray, Bellavia, Rose, & Griffin, 2003), and these insecure individuals often express their insecurities to their partners, further threatening the relationship (Lemay & Clark, 2008;Murray et al, 2003).…”

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Partner enhancement versus verification and emotional responses to daily conflict

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Burke

2014

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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This study investigated the moderating role of partner enhancement and verification on couples' emotional responses to daily conflicts. Each evening for 5 weeks, 264 couples in which one partner was under stress reported whether a conflict occurred and both positive and negative relationship feelings. Partners rated each other on relationshipcentral and relationship-peripheral traits before the diary period, allowing us to examine the consequences of derogation (partner views more negative than self-views) and enhancement (partner views more positive than self-views) relative to verification. Derogation on both relationship-central and relationship-peripheral traits was associated with more negative conflict responses. Enhancement on relationship-peripheral traits was associated with more negative conflict responses than verification. Although not as consistent a pattern, results suggest that enhancement on relationship-central traits was beneficial.

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“…That is, our test of the proposition that attachment style would predict couple interactions was prospective. Earlier studies tended to look only at the association between attachment style and couple interactions at the same point in time (e.g., Campbell, Simpson, Boldry, & Kashy, 2005;Simpson, Rholes, & Phillips, 1996;Tucker & Anders, 1998), a research strategy less able to evaluate the direction of hypothesized effects. In any case, the present findings clearly demonstrate the significance of behavioral interactions in close relations in predicting romantic attachment security.…”

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Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security.

Dinero¹,

Conger²,

Shaver³

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Couple and Family Psychology: Research and Practice

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According to attachment theory, attachment security or attachment style derives from social experiences that begin early in life and continue into the adult years. In this study we examined these expectations by examining associations between the quality of observed interaction patterns in the family of origin during adolescence and self-reported romantic attachment style and observed romantic relationship behaviors in adulthood (at ages 25 and 27). Family and romantic relationship interactions were rated by trained observers from video recordings of structured conversation tasks. Attachment style was assessed with items from Griffin and Bartholomew's (1994) Relationship Scales Questionnaire. Observational ratings of warmth and sensitivity in family interactions were positively related to similar behaviors by romantic partners and to self-reported attachment security. In addition, romantic interactions characterized by high warmth and low hostility at age 25 predicted greater attachment security at 27, after controlling for attachment security at age 25. However, attachment security at age 25 did not predict later romantic relationship interactions after controlling for earlier interactions. These findings underscore the importance of social experiences in close relationships for the development of romantic attachment security but they are inconsistent with the theoretical expectation that attachment security will predict the quality of interactions in romantic unions.

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Perceptions of Conflict and Support in Romantic Relationships: The Role of Attachment Anxiety.

Cited by 614 publications

References 69 publications

Assertiveness expectancies: How hard people push depends on the consequences they predict.

Assertiveness expectancies: How hard people push depends on the consequences they predict.

Partner enhancement versus verification and emotional responses to daily conflict

Influence of family of origin and adult romantic partners on romantic attachment security.

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