that relationship partners can help to regulate goal pursuit, which ultimately has the effect of increasing the likelihood that goals are achieved. There are many theories of self-regulation (e.g., Carver & Scheier, 2001; Leventhal, Leventhal, & Contrada, 1998), and large bodies of work that connect self-regulation with psychological well-being, health behavior, and good physical health (Bandura, 2005; Maes & Karoly, 2005; Scheier et al., 1989; 1999). In fact, successful interventions aimed at disease management often have enhanced self-regulation as an underlying principle behind the treatment without necessarily articulating it (see Maes & Karoly, 2005, for a review). Relationship quality. In our own work, we have found links of self-reported and behavioral measures of communal coping to better patient relationship quality (Helgeson, Jakubiak et al., 2016; Zajdel et al., 2016). In a study of persons with heart failure, a two-item measure of communal coping, one of which captured the appraisal component and one of which captured the collaboration component, was related to greater marital quality (Rohrbaugh et al., 2008). In related work, collaboration has been linked to greater marital satisfaction for both husbands and wives (Berg et al., 2008), and the common dyadic coping subscale from the Bodenmann instrument was related to increases in relationship quality over 5 months, controlling for baseline levels (Rottman et al., 2015). A meta-analytic review of the literature on Bodenmann’s dyadic coping scales (Falconier, Jackson, Hilpert, & Bodenmann, 2015) found the strongest links to relationship satisfaction for the common dyadic coping scale (d = +.53). Although this measure assesses more than our specific definition of communal coping (i.e., also includes relaxation and affection), this finding suggests that collaboration may contribute to enhanced relationship quality.
that relationship partners can help to regulate goal pursuit, which ultimately has the effect of increasing the likelihood that goals are achieved. There are many theories of self-regulation (e.g., Carver & Scheier, 2001; Leventhal, Leventhal, & Contrada, 1998), and large bodies of work that connect self-regulation with psychological well-being, health behavior, and good physical health (Bandura, 2005; Maes & Karoly, 2005; Scheier et al., 1989; 1999). In fact, successful interventions aimed at disease management often have enhanced self-regulation as an underlying principle behind the treatment without necessarily articulating it (see Maes & Karoly, 2005, for a review). Relationship quality. In our own work, we have found links of self-reported and behavioral measures of communal coping to better patient relationship quality (Helgeson, Jakubiak et al., 2016; Zajdel et al., 2016). In a study of persons with heart failure, a two-item measure of communal coping, one of which captured the appraisal component and one of which captured the collaboration component, was related to greater marital quality (Rohrbaugh et al., 2008). In related work, collaboration has been linked to greater marital satisfaction for both husbands and wives (Berg et al., 2008), and the common dyadic coping subscale from the Bodenmann instrument was related to increases in relationship quality over 5 months, controlling for baseline levels (Rottman et al., 2015). A meta-analytic review of the literature on Bodenmann’s dyadic coping scales (Falconier, Jackson, Hilpert, & Bodenmann, 2015) found the strongest links to relationship satisfaction for the common dyadic coping scale (d = +.53). Although this measure assesses more than our specific definition of communal coping (i.e., also includes relaxation and affection), this finding suggests that collaboration may contribute to enhanced relationship quality.
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