Supplemental Material for Closeness Regulation in Couples: The Temporal Dynamics and Dissociations of Closeness Frustration and Closeness Surfeit
Year: 2024
Type: supplementary-materials
Abstract: The present models included two latent processes, the rate of change (dθt) in closeness discrepancies for both the male and female partner within the couple.Each latent variable was assessed by a single manifest indicator, with fixed loadings set to 1 across all measurement occasions for identification purposes.In the measurement model, manifest intercepts were fixed to zero, and manifest error variances and covariances were freely estimated for both processes.Continuous error variances and covariances (Q), along with the means, variances and covariances of the initial observations, were freely estimated.Random effects were introduced for means and intercepts.The inclusion of any additional random effects led to unstable model solutions and was therefore omitted.The drift matrix, capturing the auto-and cross-effects (i.e., the effects of the processes on each other) of the two latent processes, underwent step-wise restrictions to ensure model fit.Initially, all drift parameters were estimated without constraints.Subsequently, the auto-effects were specified in a more complex manner, as detailed in the following section, and set equal for both partners.Except intercepts and error variances, parameters were set equal for male and female partners.The crosseffects were fixed to zero due to the absence of significant coefficients (fit indices are presented in Table ST1). Complex auto-effectsWith regard to the nonlinear capabilities of continuous time models, we incorporated complex auto-effect parameters into the model.This encompassed both a common auto-effect (Abase) and a
Source: Motivation Science
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4403172608