Positive illusions about dyadic perspective-taking as a moderator of the association between attachment insecurity and marital satisfaction.

ABSTRACT: Attachment insecurity (i.e., attachment anxiety or avoidance) puts people at risk for dissatisfying relationships. However, the dyadic regulation model of insecurity buffering suggests that an understanding and responsive partner may help insecure individuals to regulate emotions, thus improving couples' relationships. It may also be that perceiving partners as understanding and empathic, especially in an exaggeratedly positive way (i.e., positive illusions) will buffer insecurity. In 196 mixed-gender newlywed couples, we investigated whether spouses' positive illusions about partner's dyadic perspective-taking moderated the association between spouses' attachment insecurity and spouses' and partners' marital satisfaction over two years. Positive illusions generally predicted more satisfyi

SUBMITTER: Rigby RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10126462 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature