Journal of Social and Personal Relationships ( IF 2.681 ) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 , DOI: 10.1177/02654075211005843 Emily J. Cross 1 , Nickola C. Overall 1 , Shanuki D. Jayamaha 1 , Chris G. Sibley 1
People low in self-esteem are likely more vulnerable to the wellbeing costs of relationship dissolution. Yet, several methodological limitations may mean that prior studies have overestimated such vulnerability. Overcoming prior limitations, we apply propensity score matching (PSM) to compare the later wellbeing of matched samples who experienced a dissolution over the past year (N = 1,333) versus remained in a romantic relationship (N = 1,333). Controlling for pre-dissolution wellbeing, people who experienced a dissolution reported lower later wellbeing compared to people who remained in a relationship. Although this pattern was more pronounced for people initially lower in self-esteem, the relative effects were small. Using PSM to provide stringent tests of the wellbeing effects of dissolution reveals a general resilience when experiencing dissolution and indicates that the vulnerability of low self-esteem may be smaller than assumed. Acknowledging the strengths and limitations of the PSM approach, we consider theoretical and methodological implications.
中文翻译:
自尊心低是否预示着关系破裂后的幸福感会降低?
自尊心低的人可能更容易遭受关系破裂带来的幸福感。但是,一些方法上的局限性可能意味着先前的研究高估了这种脆弱性。克服先前的局限性,我们应用倾向得分匹配(PSM)来比较在过去一年中经历解散(N = 1,333)与保持恋爱关系(N= 1,333)。控制了解散前的幸福感,经历了解散的人的后期幸福感比留在伴侣中的人低。尽管这种模式对于最初自尊心较低的人更为明显,但相对影响却很小。使用PSM对溶出的幸福感进行严格的测试可以揭示溶出时的一般复原力,并表明低自尊的脆弱性可能比假设的要小。认识到PSM方法的优势和局限性,我们考虑了理论和方法论的含义。