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Trust and Partner-Enhancing Attributions in Close RelationshipsUniversity of Texas at Austin, pjmiller{at}mail.utexas.edu
St. Jeromes University, jrempel{at}uwaterloo.ca A cross-lagged panel design was used to examine the links between trust and attributional processes in a sample of 75 married couples throughout a period of 2 years. During the first phase of the study, participants completed a measure of marital trust, engaged in a laboratory problem-solving discussion of a recurrent conflict-related issue, and then rated their partners behavior and motives. Approximately 2 years later, 54 couples were again contacted and measures of trust were obtained. Forty of these couples also viewed a videotape of their laboratory problem-solving discussion from 2 years previously and rated their partners behavior and motives. Results suggested a reciprocal causal pattern by which partner-enhancing attributions predict changes in trust and trust predicts changes in partner-enhancing attributions.
Key Words: trust close relationship attribution conflict
Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 30, No. 6,
695-705 (2004) This article has been cited by other articles:
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