Emotion regulation is a critical ingredient for successful interpersonal relationships. How each partner regulates positive and negative emotions has consequences for own and partners' relationship outcomes. The present study examined how emotion contagion, the tendency to feel and share emotions with one's partner, is associated with emotion regulation and marital satisfaction in a sample of 132 younger (<44) and older (>44) couples. Results from actor-partner interdependence models found partners' chronic reappraisal was associated with theirs and their partners' higher marital satisfaction especially in older age couples. Partners' higher emotion suppression was associated with own lower marital satisfaction across age groups. Partners' emotion contagion (especially of emotions of sadness, happiness, and love) mediated the observed actor and partner regulation effects. The results point to the sharing of emotion and age as moderators of emotion regulation in couples.
Emotion regulation and marital satisfaction: the mediating effect of emotion contagion. A dyadic analysis / Mazzuca, Silvia; Livi, Stefano; Presaghi, Fabio; Kafetsios, Konstantinos. - ELETTRONICO. - (2015). (Intervento presentato al convegno IARR 2015 Self-Regulation and Close relationships tenutosi a Amsterdam).
Emotion regulation and marital satisfaction: the mediating effect of emotion contagion. A dyadic analysis
MAZZUCA, SILVIA;LIVI, Stefano;PRESAGHI, Fabio;KAFETSIOS, KONSTANTINOS
2015
Abstract
Emotion regulation is a critical ingredient for successful interpersonal relationships. How each partner regulates positive and negative emotions has consequences for own and partners' relationship outcomes. The present study examined how emotion contagion, the tendency to feel and share emotions with one's partner, is associated with emotion regulation and marital satisfaction in a sample of 132 younger (<44) and older (>44) couples. Results from actor-partner interdependence models found partners' chronic reappraisal was associated with theirs and their partners' higher marital satisfaction especially in older age couples. Partners' higher emotion suppression was associated with own lower marital satisfaction across age groups. Partners' emotion contagion (especially of emotions of sadness, happiness, and love) mediated the observed actor and partner regulation effects. The results point to the sharing of emotion and age as moderators of emotion regulation in couples.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.