Affection is a fundamental need, however, humans vary in their expression and interpretation of affectionate behavior which may affect the degree to which this need is met. This study examines dyadic written accounts of affection within romantic relationships. Results indicate a high level of variance between partners’ accounts of recent affection expressions. Furthermore, these accounts contain multiple affection behaviors per episode, multiple types of affection behaviors, and reflect sex differences regarding recall of recent affectionate expressions. Implications for individual and relational health are discussed. Further, study results are compared to existing affection measures and suggest a need to modify existing indexes to account for the role of context in affectionate communication revealed from qualitative affection accounts.

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探索二元感情账户的一致性

感情是最基本的需求，但是，人类对情感行为的表达和解释各不相同，这可能会影响满足这种需求的程度。这项研究检查了浪漫关系中感情的二元书面记录。结果表明，伴侣对最近情感表达的描述之间存在很大差异。此外，这些记录包含每个情节的多种情感行为，多种类型的情感行为，并反映出与回忆最近的情感表达有关的性别差异。讨论了对个人和关系健康的影响。此外，将研究结果与现有的情感测度进行比较，并建议需要修改现有的指标，以说明情境在定性情感描述中揭示的情感交流中的作用。