Transactions between self-esteem and perceived conflict in romantic relationships: A 5-year longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT: Self-esteem has been shown to be both predictive of and predicted by characteristics of romantic relationships. While there is an increasing number of studies yielding support for reciprocal influences between self-esteem and perceived conflict in romantic relationships, longitudinal transactions between these constructs from both partners' perspectives have not been studied systematically to date. Our aim was to close this gap. To that end, we examined the transactional and longitudinal interplay between self-esteem and perceived relationship conflict in continuing romantic couples from a dyadic perspective. Our sample consisted of N = 1,093 young adult female-male relationships from the German Family Panel. Individuals' self-esteem, perceived conflict frequency, and their perceptions of

SUBMITTER: Richter J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041199 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature