Physiological bases of secure base support provision in a longitudinal study of married older adult couples.

ABSTRACT: Close others often serve as a source of support for our pursuit of personal goals. Although social psychological research indicates that individuals and relationships benefit when couple members provide each other with secure base support for personal goals, few studies have investigated the physiological bases of these types of support interactions. This study of married older adults examined support providers' cardiovascular challenge-threat responses while they engaged in a laboratory social interaction about the most important goal that their partner (the target) wanted to make progress toward during the next year. Consistent with our hypothesis, support providers' cardiovascular challenge responses were positively associated with targets' ratings of their secure base support provision

SUBMITTER: Chin B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9539597 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature