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- Title
Attachment, Perceived Conflict, and Couple Satisfaction: Test of a Mediational Dyadic Model.
- Authors
Brassard, Audrey; Lussier, Yvan; Shaver, Phillip R.
- Abstract
Attachment insecurities (anxiety and avoidance) are often associated with relationship dissatisfaction, but the mediators have been unclear. We examined the mediating role of perceived conflict in 274 French-Canadian couples who completed measures of attachment insecurities, perception of conflict, and relationship satisfaction. Partners' own attachment anxiety and avoidance predicted their experience of conflict. In addition, women's anxiety predicted men's experience of conflict, and men's avoidance predicted women's experience of conflict. The associations between attachment insecurities and relationship dissatisfaction were partially mediated by conflict.
- Subjects
RELATIONSHIP quality; QUALITY of life; MAN-woman relationships; ANXIETY; PSYCHOLOGICAL stress; INTERPERSONAL relations &; psychology; INTERPERSONAL conflict; ATTACHMENT behavior
- Publication
Family Relations, 2009, Vol 58, Issue 5, p634
- ISSN
0197-6664
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1741-3729.2009.00580.x