Examining relationships between interpersonal emotion regulation, psychopathology, andrelationship quality in female friend dyads
Year: 2019
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: One way individuals can create social connections is through providing and receiving social support (i.e., enacted support).Although both social support (e.g., Piferi & Lawler, 2006) and emotion regulation (ER) have been linked to mental health (e.g., Aldao et al., 2010) outcomes, the application of an ER framework to the construct of enacted support is relatively unexplored.The current study advances our understanding by examining dyadic reports of the use of ER strategies on symptoms of psychopathology, relationship closeness, and relationship influence in female friend pairs.121 pairs of undergraduate female friends (M age = 19 years, SD = 1.32) completed questionnaires assessing their perception of the habitual use of ER strategies with their friend and their friend's habitual use of ER strategies with them (Gross & John, 2003;Treynor et al., 2003), symptoms of psychopathology (Fairburn & Beglin, 1994;Radloff, 1977;Mattick & Clarke, 1998;Spitzer et al., 2006), relationship closeness (Aron, Aron, & Smollan, 1992), and relationship influence (Berscheid et al., 1989).Actor-Partner Interdependence Models (APIM; Cook & Kenny, 2005) were conducted, entering provision and receipt of brooding rumination, expressive suppression, and reappraisal as predictors, and a composite psychopathology score, relationship closeness, and relationship influence as outcomes.I found that an individual's perceptions of providing and receiving brooding rumination and suppression were positively associated with her Dedication "Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think.It's splendid to find that there are so many of them in the world."-L.M. Montgomery This dissertation is dedicated to the powerful friendships that have inspired and sustained me.
Author: Christensen, Kara Alise
Institution: The Ohio State University
Language: English
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7009754745