Interpersonal Complementarity and Affect in Daily Life.

ABSTRACT: The current study examines the associations between interpersonal complementarity and affective reactions during social interactions in daily life, as well as contextual moderators of these associations. This research aims to understand how satisfaction/frustration of interpersonal motives (operationalized as interpersonal complementarity) impacts affect, using Contemporary Integrative Interpersonal Theory as a guiding framework. Participants (N = 227) rated actor and partner agency and communion in interpersonal interactions in 6 prompted surveys per day for 21 days. Results suggested that communal and agentic complementarity was associated with more positive affect valence, though this association was stronger for communal complementarity. Additionally, agentic complementarity imp

SUBMITTER: Halberstadt AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11233140 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature