Dyadic Cross-Sectional Associations Between Negative Mood, Marital Idealization, and Relationship Quality. Issue 7 (2nd October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gana, Kamel; Saada, Yaël; Broc, Guillaume; Koleck, Michèle; Cazauvieilh, Christophe
• Is Part Of: Journal of psychology. Volume 150:Issue 7(2016)
• Page Start: 897
• Page End: 915
• Publication Date: 2016-10-02
• Subjects: Negative mood -- marital idealization -- mood reciprocity -- relationship quality -- dyadic analysis; Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Psychologie; 150
• DOI: 10.1080/00223980.2016.1211982
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-3980

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study aimed to evaluate (a) dyadic associations between relationship quality (RQ) and both depressive and anxious mood (DM and AM), (b) reciprocity hypotheses of negative mood within dyadic interactions, and (c) mediational role of marital idealization between negative mood and relationship quality. Actor-partner interdependence models (APIMs) were performed using data from a sample of 198 dyads. Our results showed that (a) these two facets of negative mood did not have the same weight on RQ and that they had a gender-specific effects pattern, and (b) there was no support for the mood transmission hypothesis. Men's DM displayed direct and indirect (via marital idealization) actor as well as partner effects on RQ, whereas women's DM displayed only a direct actor effect on RQ. There were no significant direct actor effects of AM on RQ, meaning that this link is fully mediated by marital idealization. However, only women's AM showed such indirect effects on RQ.