Lamarche, Veronica M and Seery, Mark D and Murray, Sandra L and Kondrak, Cheryl L and Saltsman, Thomas L and Streamer, Lindsey (2022) Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3. p. 100061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100061
Lamarche, Veronica M and Seery, Mark D and Murray, Sandra L and Kondrak, Cheryl L and Saltsman, Thomas L and Streamer, Lindsey (2022) Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3. p. 100061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100061
Lamarche, Veronica M and Seery, Mark D and Murray, Sandra L and Kondrak, Cheryl L and Saltsman, Thomas L and Streamer, Lindsey (2022) Lovers in a dangerous time: Ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation. Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology, 3. p. 100061. DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cresp.2022.100061
Abstract
The proposed model of ecologically motivated relationship safety regulation posits that close relationships offer symbolic safety when natural ecologically-based threats activate the need for self-preservation. The model makes the twin assumptions that (1) natural ecological threats motivate people in unreliable relationships to perceive their relationships as bastions of safety, but (2) that their personal capacities for resilience in the face of threat constrain such motivated perceptions. Two internal meta-analyses of 4 correlational/cross-sectional and 5 experimental studies (Ntotal=5,030) using different methods and conceptualizations of natural ecological threats (acute and chronic pain; pathogenic transmission) supported the hypotheses. People in less satisfying relationships symbolically defended against natural ecological threats by affirming the available safety in their close relationships when they were high in self-esteem (i.e., high in personal resiliency), but not when they were low in self-esteem. However, people in highly satisfying relationships did not defend against natural ecological threats, likely because they already felt safe in their relationships.
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Self-preservation; Ecological threats; Relationship safety; Close relationships; Self-esteem; Satisfaction |
Divisions: | Faculty of Science and Health Faculty of Science and Health > Psychology, Department of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 31 Aug 2022 13:41 |
Last Modified: | 31 Aug 2022 13:41 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/33281 |
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