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The Good and Bad of Relationships: How Social Hindrance and Social Support Affect Relationship Feelings in Daily Life

Eshkol Rafaeli

Barnard College Columbia University, jcranfor{at}med.umich.edu

James A. Cranford

University of Michigan

Amie S. Green

New York University

Patrick E. Shrout

New York University

Niall Bolger

Columbia University

The authors examined the effects of social hindrance and support on negative and positive relationship-specific feelings in three daily diary studies. Study 1 showed that hindrance and support independently predicted positive relationship feelings, but only hindrance predicted negative feelings. Study 2 used new measures of hindrance and support and showed that hindrance and support independently predicted same-day relationship feelings but that the effects of hindrance were stronger in magnitude. Study 3 yielded similar findings using the new measures of hindrance and support and controlling for morning feeling. These asymmetrical crossover effects suggest that bad is only stronger than good when it comes to bad outcomes; they also support the distinction between aversive and appetitive relational processes.

Key Words: social hindrance • social support • daily process designs • relationship feelings

This version was published on December 1, 2008

Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 34, No. 12, 1703-1718 (2008)
DOI: 10.1177/0146167208323742
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