Steins, Gisela:
Merging or differentiation? Is there an optimum closeness for perspective-taking in love-relationships?
In: Advances in Social Psychology Research / Arlsdale, John Z. (Hrsg.). - New York: Nova Science, 2006, S. 67 - 82
2006Buchaufsatz/Kapitel in Sammelwerk
PsychologieFakultät für Bildungswissenschaften » Institut für Psychologie » Allgemeine Psychologie und Sozialpsychologie
Titel:
Merging or differentiation? Is there an optimum closeness for perspective-taking in love-relationships?
Autor*in:
Steins, GiselaUDE
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130847313
LSF ID
10527
ORCID
0000-0002-3745-2778ORCID iD
Sonstiges
der Hochschule zugeordnete*r Autor*in

Abstract:

This article explores two questions. (1) Is perspective-taking associated with an optimum closeness? (2) How are satisfaction and perspective-taking related when a behavioral measure of perspective-taking is used? Two studies, correlational in nature, were conducted in Germany. The studies included 99 students (Study 1) and 31 couples (Study 2); different behavioral operationalizations of perspective-taking were used. The results show that (1) there was an optimum level of closeness for perspective-taking, and (2) satisfaction was not necessarily correlated with perspective-taking. The satisfaction-discrepancy between partners was more crucial: the more one's own satisfaction exceeds the partner's satisfaction, the better the perspective-taking performance. Generally, the present research would suggest that the partner's perspective was approximated when there was a kind of special ambiguity.