Individuals are likely to vary in their abilities to enact appropriate relationship behavior. With the aim of quantifying such differences, young adult participants were asked to rate the likelihood that they would respond to simulated relationship challenges in different ways and such responses were transformed into a Romantic Competence-Behavioral Tendency (RC-BT) metric through the use of several innovations. Three studies (total N = 496) then showed that higher RC-BT scores were predictive of prosocial feelings for the partner in combination with lesser aggression. Further, both participants and their partners were more satisfied and committed to their relationships with higher RC individuals. The findings provide support for a new way of thinking about romantic competence that builds on situated decision-making processes.

个人制定适当的关系行为的能力可能会有所不同。为了量化这种差异，要求年轻的成年参与者对他们以不同方式应对模拟的人际关系挑战的可能性进行评估，并通过使用以下方式将其转化为浪漫能力行为倾向（RC-BT）指标。几项创新。三项研究（总计N = 496），则表明较高的RC-BT分数可预示伴侣的亲社会感和较少的攻击性。此外，参与者和他们的伙伴都更加满意并致力于与更高的RC个人的关系。研究结果为基于浪漫的决策过程的浪漫能力的新思维方式提供了支持。