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- Title
Attachment, emotion regulation, and well-being in couples: Intrapersonal and interpersonal associations.
- Authors
Brandão, Tânia; Matias, Marisa; Ferreira, Tiago; Vieira, Joana; Schulz, Marc S.; Matos, Paula Mena
- Abstract
<bold>Objective: </bold>There is a well-established link in the literature between secure romantic attachment orientation and psychological well-being. The underlying processes of this link and the couple interplay between attachment and well-being are notably less explored. Using a dyadic framework, this study examines both couple members' emotion regulation strategies as potential mediators of this link.<bold>Method: </bold>One hundred and nineteen heterosexual couples completed self-report measures on attachment style, psychological well-being, tendency to suppress emotions, and emotion expression. Analyses were performed using the actor-partner interdependence mediation model that distinguishes between intrapersonal and interpersonal influences.<bold>Results: </bold>Results showed that controlling for relationship length, there was an intrapersonal indirect effect of attachment avoidance on psychological well-being through emotion suppression. Moreover, interpersonal indirect effects were found (a) with individual attachment avoidance being associated with partner's psychological well-being through own emotion expression and (b) individual's attachment anxiety being associated with partner's psychological well-being through both own's emotion expression and partner's emotion suppression.<bold>Conclusions: </bold>These findings highlight the complex associations among attachment, emotion regulation, and well-being and point out the role of emotion regulation as a potential underlying pathway explaining these associations. The results suggest the importance of considering the relational nature of emotional and attachment dynamics in couples.
- Subjects
PSYCHOLOGY of couples; WELL-being; EMOTIONS; SELF-control; ATTACHMENT behavior; INTERPERSONAL relations &; psychology
- Publication
Journal of Personality, 2020, Vol 88, Issue 4, p748
- ISSN
0022-3506
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1111/jopy.12523