Codevelopment of Well-Being and Self-Esteem in Romantic Partners: Disentangling the Effects of Mutual Influence and Shared Environment

Autor/inn/en	Orth, Ulrich; Erol, Ruth Yasemin; Ledermann, Thomas; Grob, Alexander
Titel	Codevelopment of Well-Being and Self-Esteem in Romantic Partners: Disentangling the Effects of Mutual Influence and Shared Environment
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 1, S.151-166 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000400
Schlagwörter	Well Being; Self Esteem; Intimacy; Interpersonal Relationship; Influences; Environmental Influences; Longitudinal Studies; Dating (Social); Marriage; Adults; Life Satisfaction; Affective Behavior; Depression (Psychology); Surveys; Measures (Individuals); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Self Concept Measures; Statistical Analysis; Foreign Countries; Iowa; California; Switzerland; Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale; Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Well-being; Wellness; Wohlbefinden; Self-esteem; Selbstaufmerksamkeit; Intimität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ehe; Lebensvollendung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Messdaten; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Statistische Analyse; Ausland; Kalifornien; Schweiz
Abstract	Common sense suggests that romantic partners tend to be interdependent in their well-being and self-esteem. The authors tested the degree to which codevelopment in romantic partners (i.e., development in similar directions) is due to mutual influence between partners or due to the effects of shared environment, using longitudinal data from 5 samples of couples (N = 4,116 participants). The samples included dating, cohabiting, and married couples, with a broad age range covering young adulthood to old age. The authors used a longitudinal version of the actor-partner interdependence model and examined measures of well-being (life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and depression) and self-esteem. After conducting the study-level analyses, we meta-analytically aggregated the findings across studies. The results showed significant mutual influence between partners in life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, and depression, and significant effects of shared environment on life satisfaction, positive affect, negative affect, depression, and self-esteem. The findings suggest that both mutual influence and shared environment account for codevelopment of well-being in romantic partners. In contrast, only shared environment but not mutual influence contributes to the partners' codevelopment of self-esteem. The findings have important implications because they show that the level of well-being of a person's relationship partner has long-term influence on the person's own well-being. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01