The Relationship between Intimacy Change and Passion: A Dyadic Diary Study

AYKUTOĞLU B., Uysal A.

FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, cilt.8, 2017 (SSCI) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 8
  • Basım Tarihi: 2017
  • Doi Numarası: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02257
  • Dergi Adı: FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: intimacy, passion, romantic relationship, diary studies, dyadic data, ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS, SEXUAL DESIRE, TRIANGULAR THEORY, LOVE, COMMITMENT, SATISFACTION, PARTNER
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In the current study we investigated the association between intimacy and passion by testing whether increases in intimacy generates passion (Baumeister and Bratslavsky, 1999). Furthermore, we examined whether there are partner effects in intimacy change and passion link. Couples (N = 75) participated in a 14-day long diary study. Dyadic multilevel analyses with residualized intimacy change scores showed that both actors' and partners' intimacy change positively predicted actor's passion. However, analyses also showed that residualized passion change scores positively predicted intimacy. Although these findings provide some empirical evidence for the intimacy change model, in line with the previous research (Rubin and Campbell, 2012), they also suggest that it is not possible to discern whether intimacy increment generates passion or passion increment generates intimacy.