Objectives:

Guided by interpersonal theory, this study examined the links between everyday perceptions of interpersonal dynamics, trait-level interpersonal styles, and time-varying social contexts (i.e., with spouses, family, non-family) as they unfold in older people’s everyday life.

Method:

A sample of 78 late-middle-aged and older adults completed 2,739 reports of their social interactions over a one-week period (average 5.02 per day, SD = 2.95). For each report, participants recorded their perceptions of their own agentic and communal behavior, as well as that of their partner.

Results:

Results from multilevel modeling revealed that the complementarity in agentic behaviors was stronger when people were interacting with spouses and family members, whereas such contextual differences were not found to influence the degree of communal complementarity. Individuals with higher level trait agency tended to view their partner as more agentic across interactions with different social partners. Individuals with higher level trait communion tended to view their partner as more communal during interactions; this tendency was more pronounced when interacting with non-family members.

Conclusions:

The differing degrees of perceived complementarity along the dimensions of agency and communion should be understood through varying social contexts. Participants’ trait interpersonal styles tended to affect how they viewed the agentic and communal behaviors of others.

中文翻译：

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中晚期和老年人对人际互补的看法：人际特质和社会背景在强化的生态瞬时评估框架中的作用

目标：

在人际关系理论的指导下，这项研究考察了在老年人日常生活中不断发展的人际关系的日常感知，特质水平的人际交往风格以及时变的社会环境（即与配偶，家庭，非家庭生活）之间的联系。

方法：

在78名中晚​​期老年人中，有一个样本在一周内完成了2739份社交互动报告（平均每天5.02，SD = 2.95）。对于每份报告，参与者都记录了他们对自己和伴侣的代理和公共行为的看法。

结果：

多层次建模的结果表明，当人们与配偶和家庭成员互动时，代理人行为的互补性更强，而未发现这种上下文差异会影响公共互补性的程度。具有较高特质的代理人倾向于在与不同社会伙伴的互动中将其伙伴视为更具代理性。具有较高水平特质共融的人在互动过程中倾向于将自己的伴侣视为更多的共融。与非家庭成员互动时，这种趋势更加明显。

结论：

应该通过变化的社会环境来理解代理和共融维度上不同程度的感知互补。参与者的特质人际交往风格往往会影响他们如何看待他人的代理和社区行为。