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Attachment Security and Marital Satisfaction: The Role of Positive Perceptions and Social Support

University of California, Los Angeles, rcobb{at}ucla.edu

Joanne Davila

State University of New York at Buffalo

Thomas N. Bradbury

University of California, Los Angeles

The authors examined how positive perceptions about partners’ attachment security predicted supportive behavior and satisfaction in newlywed marriage. The authors tested a mediation model in which positive perceptions were associated with adaptive support behavior, which in turn predicted increases in marital satisfaction. The self-report measures of attachment security, perceptions of partner’s attachment security, and marital satisfaction within 6 months of marriage and again 1 year later were completed by 172 couples. Social support behavior was assessed by videotaped interactions at the initial session. Structural equation models indicated that positive perceptions served a relationship-enhancing function that was enacted, in part, through couples’ supportive interactions.

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