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Journal of Child and Family Studies

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08-04-2019 | Original Paper

When Couples Disagree: Predicting Informant Differences in Adults’ Emotion Regulation

Auteurs: Doris F. Pu, Christina M. Rodriguez, Levi R. Baker

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies | Uitgave 6/2019

Abstract

Objectives

Investigations of emotion regulation, which includes both subjective affect and observable behaviors, could benefit from widespread adoption of multi-informant approaches. Currently, informants are infrequently used when studying adults, due to the complexity of interpreting differences among multiple reports.

Method

To identify factors that predict disagreement between informants, this study evaluated self-reported and partner-reported emotion regulation abilities for each member of 81 adult couples. Ratings of each partner’s perceived stress, symptoms of psychopathology, couple satisfaction, and intimate partner victimization were collected as potential sources of discordance.

Results

Intrapersonal characteristics appeared to contribute most to diverging reports: women and men experiencing higher stress (and marginally their psychopathology) reported worse emotion regulation abilities in comparison to their partners’ ratings of their abilities, underscoring the value of having multiple reports. Additionally, women’s reports about their partners corresponded with their partners’ self-reports but men’s reports about their partners did not. Men with higher couple satisfaction reported better emotion regulation abilities compared to their partner’s reports.

Conclusions

More work is needed to understand multi-informant differences in adult reports of psychological functioning.

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Titel: When Couples Disagree: Predicting Informant Differences in Adults’ Emotion Regulation
Auteurs: Doris F. Pu
Christina M. Rodriguez
Levi R. Baker
Publicatiedatum: 08-04-2019
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Child and Family Studies / Uitgave 6/2019
Print ISSN: 1062-1024
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2843
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-019-01401-z

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