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连接还是保护？浪漫关系中的社会阶层和自我保护

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连接还是保护？浪漫关系中的社会阶层和自我保护

Connect or Protect? Social Class and Self-Protection in Romantic Relationships

——原载《人格与社会心理学杂志》2022第122卷第4期——

<Journal of Personality and Social Psychology> 2022, 122 (4)

【摘要】较低的SES（社会经济地位）夫妇倾向于在其关系中面临特定的挑战。相对于较高SES夫妇，他们结婚的可能性较小，而离婚的可能性更大，但他们并不珍视自己的浪漫关系。利用风险调节理论和社会阶层作为文化的理论，我们建议较低的SES个人通过优先考虑自我保护比更高的SES个人所做的更加长期不稳定的环境，但是自我保护的需求可能会破坏关系满意度。我们使用横截面，纵向和每日方法研究了三项研究的这些思想。较低的SES个体在对他们的关系的想法（研究2-3）中以及他们对伴侣在2年内的承诺水平（研究1）和2周（研究3）做出的判断中都更加自我保护（研究3）。反过来，自我保护与较低的关系满意度有关（研究2-3）。但是，较低的SES个体只有在他们的关系中感到脆弱时才是自我保护（研究3）。综上所述，这些研究确定了心理机制，以解释为什么较低的SES经历的结构性挑战会使实现令人满意的关系变得更加困难。

【关键词】社会阶层，社会经济地位，浪漫关系，风险调节，文化和自我

[Abstract] Lower SES (socioeconomic status) couples tend to face particular challenges in their relationships. Relative to higher SES couples, they are less likely to marry and more likely to divorce—but they do not value their romantic relationships any less. Drawing on risk regulation theory and theories of social class as culture, we suggest that lower SES individuals adapt to their more chronically precarious environments by prioritizing self-protection more than higher SES individuals do, but that the need to self-protect may undermine relationship satisfaction. We investigate these ideas across 3 studies, using cross-sectional, longitudinal, and daily-diary methods. Lower SES individuals were more self-protective, both in their thoughts about their relationship (Studies 2–3), and in the judgments they made about their partner’s commitment level over 2 years (Study 1) and 2 weeks (Study 3). Self-protection, in turn, was associated with lower relationship satisfaction (Studies 2–3). However, lower SES individuals were only self-protective when feeling vulnerable in their relationships (Study 3). Taken together, these studies identify psychological mechanisms to explain why the structural challenges that lower SES individuals experience can make it more difficult to achieve satisfying relationships.

[Key words] social class, socioeconomic status, romantic relationships, risk regulation, culture and self

这篇中文解析是针对论文《连接还是保护？浪漫关系中的社会阶层和自我保护》（Connect or Protect? Social Class and Self-Protection in Romantic Relationships）的一篇论文解析，该论文于2022年4月发表于《人格和社会心理学杂志》（Journal of Personality and Social Psychology）第122卷第4期上。研究者包括美国西北大学的Lydia F. Emery 和Eli J. Finkel。

（中文解析见《华人心理健康报》2022年12月5日PDF版，微信索取）

论文原文：Emery, L. F. & Finkel, E. J. (2022). Connect or protect? Social class and self-protection in romantic relationships. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 122(4), 683–699.

https://doi.org/10.1037/pspi0000368

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