TY - JOUR
T1 - Marriage as a training ground
T2 - Examining change in self-control and forgiveness over the first 4 years of marriage
AU - Pronk, Tila M
AU - Buyukcan-Tetik, Asuman
AU - Iliás, Marina M A H
AU - Finkenauer, Catrin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - Do partners' levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage? Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship abilities, we hypothesized that people increase their levels of self-control and forgiveness over time and that these developments take place simultaneously. We tested these predictions among 199 newlywed couples in the first 4 years of marriage, using a dyadic latent growth curves analysis. Confirming our hypotheses, results showed significant increases in self-control and forgiveness as well as a positive concurrent correlation between these variables. However, the developments of self-control and forgiveness were unrelated. So, while people become more self-controlled and forgiving over the course of a marriage, these developments do not coincide.
AB - Do partners' levels of self-control and forgiveness change over the course of marriage? Based on the idea that marriage may function as a training ground for these vital relationship abilities, we hypothesized that people increase their levels of self-control and forgiveness over time and that these developments take place simultaneously. We tested these predictions among 199 newlywed couples in the first 4 years of marriage, using a dyadic latent growth curves analysis. Confirming our hypotheses, results showed significant increases in self-control and forgiveness as well as a positive concurrent correlation between these variables. However, the developments of self-control and forgiveness were unrelated. So, while people become more self-controlled and forgiving over the course of a marriage, these developments do not coincide.
KW - Forgiveness
KW - marriage
KW - romantic relationships
KW - self-control
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85057915296&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0265407517721065
DO - 10.1177/0265407517721065
M3 - Article
C2 - 30595617
SN - 0265-4075
VL - 36
SP - 109
EP - 130
JO - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
JF - Journal of Social and Personal Relationships
IS - 1
ER -