Abstract

Forming, maintaining, and ending romantic relationship is a crucial developmental task in emerging adulthood and highly correlated with psychosocial well-being. Although the direction of associations between relational and individual processes has been investigated in married couples, the longitudinal links between relationship satisfaction and life satisfaction has not yet been explored in premarital relationships of emerging adults. Therefore, the present study aimed to explore whether there is a top-down, bottom-up, or bidirectional effect between these two variables. Emerging adults (n = 182; 155 females, 27 males; M_age = 21.23, SD_age = 1.62) from a public university responded self-report measures of the Couples Satisfaction Index and the Satisfaction with Life Scale at two time points over a 14-week interval. A cross-lagged autoregressive panel model analysis indicated that there was a bidirectional association between satisfaction in relationship domain and overall life satisfaction in premarital romantic relationships of emerging adults. The present findings importantly contribute to close relationships and well-being literatures. Study strengths, limitations, and implications are discussed.

摘要

形成，维持和结束恋爱关系是成年后成年的至关重要的发展任务，并且与社会心理健康高度相关。尽管已在已婚夫妇中研究了关系和个体过程之间的关联方向，但尚未在新兴成年人的婚前关系中探索关系满意度和生活满意度之间的纵向联系。因此，本研究旨在探讨这两个变量之间是否存在自顶向下，自底向上或双向作用。新兴成年人（n  = 182；女性155；男性27；M_年龄 = 21.23，SD_年龄） = 1.62）来自公立大学，在14周的时间间隔内的两个时间点对夫妇满意度指数和生活满意度量表进行了自我报告。交叉滞后的自回归面板模型分析表明，在新兴成年人的婚前浪漫关系中，关系域的满意度与整体生活满意度之间存在双向关联。本研究结果对建立亲密关系和幸福的文献具有重要意义。讨论了研究的优势，局限性和含义。