Neural basis of romantic partners' decisions about participation in leisure activity.

ABSTRACT: Leisure activity is one of key ingredients for individual happiness and life satisfaction. Enjoying leisure activity with one's partner can increase marital satisfaction. This study aimed to identify the neural basis of making decisions on participation in a leisure activity with one's romantic partner as well as the relationship between leisure activity and satisfaction with life. Thirty-seven soon-to-be married heterosexual couples were participated in functional MRI while deciding participation in specific leisure activities in the individual, partner, with-friend, and with-partner conditions. We constructed analysis of variance models and investigated couple characteristics such as personality similarity, leisure activity matching rate, and spatial similarity in the bilateral frontopar

SUBMITTER: Kyeong S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6783572 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature