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Assessing how much couples work at their relationship: the behavioral self-regulation for effective relationships scale.
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A scale to assess relationship self-regulation was developed and it accounted for substantial variance in relationship satisfaction in both newlywed samples and in a 3rd sample of 61 long-married couples.Abstract:
It is widely believed that satisfying couple relationships require work by the partners The authors equated the concept of work to relationship self-regulation and developed a scale to assess this construct A factor analysis of the scale in a sample of 187 newlywed couples showed it comprised 2 factors of relationship strategies and effort The factor structure was replicated in an independent sample of 97 newlywed couples In both samples the scale had good internal consistency and high convergent validity between self- and partner-report forms Self-regulation accounted for substantial variance in relationship satisfaction in both newlywed samples and in a 3rd sample of 61 long-married couples The self-regulation and satisfaction association was independent of mood or self-report common method varianceread more
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Matters of the variable heart: respiratory sinus arrhythmia response to marital interaction and associations with marital quality.
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Forgiveness and relationship satisfaction: mediating mechanisms.
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Does working at your marriage help? Couple relationship self-regulation and satisfaction in the first 4 years of marriage.
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