Actor-partner Interdependence Model Research Articles

(Dis)Similarities in Attitudes Between Partners About Women’s Solo Masturbation: A Dyadic Approach to Solo Masturbation and Its Associations with Sexual Satisfaction

ABSTRACT Attitudes among couples about women’s solo masturbation are not well understood. The primary aim of this study was to assess (dis)similarities in attitudes between partners about women’s solo masturbation and associations of each partner’s attitudes with women’s and their partners’ sexual satisfaction. One hundred and four mixed-sex couples (M = 27.43 years), recruited through social networking websites and Prolific (an online research participant platform), completed an online survey about demographics, their experiences of solo masturbation, and validated measures of attitudes about women’s masturbation and sexual satisfaction. Dyadic data were analyzed using correlational methods and the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Women and their partners reported similar and positive attitudes about women’s solo masturbation. For women, reports of positive attitudes toward women’s solo masturbation were associated with both their own and their partner’s sexual satisfaction; there were no associations for men. The role of solo masturbation within romantic relationships is complex but our results support the idea that women’s masturbation is now less stigmatized than commonly thought. Normalizing and including masturbation in the sexual script for individuals in relationships may help maximize their, and their partners,’ sexual satisfaction.

Factors effecting on health-promoting behaviors in iranian pregnant women and their husbands: the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM)

IntroductionPregnancy is an important period of life for women and their husbands as the couple’s health is essential. The present study evaluated the impact of some factors (marital adjustment with depressive symptoms) on health-promoting behaviors in pregnant women and their husbands based on the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM).Materials and methodsThis descriptive study examined 211 couples (pregnant women and their husbands) in pregnancy clinics of Babol University of Medical Sciences using a convenience sampling method. The participants completed Spanier’s Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS) (1979), Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) (1987), and Walker’s Health Promoting Lifestyle Profile II (HPLPII) questionnaire (1997). The relationships between women and their husbands were also evaluated using structural equation modeling with R software according to the Lavaan (latent variable analysis) package based on APIM-SEM.ResultsThe pregnant women’s marital adjustment positively affected their health-promoting behaviors (β = 0.456, 95% Cl: 0.491–0.998, p < 0.001) and their husbands’ (β = 0.210, 95% Cl: 0.030–0.726, p = 0.048). Pregnant woman’s depressive symptoms also negatively affected their health-promoting behaviors (β=-0.088, 95% Cl: -0.974–0.074, P = 0.236) and their husbands’ health-promoting behaviors (β=-0.177, 95% Cl: -0.281 – -0.975, P = 0.011). Furthermore, the husband’s marital adjustment only positively affected his studied behaviors (β = 0.323, 95% Cl: 0.0303–0.895, P < 0.001) but did not affect the pregnant woman’s health behaviors. The husband’s depressive symptoms had a negative impact on his studied behaviors (β = 0.219, 95% Cl: -0.122 – -0.917, P = 0.001) and did not affect the pregnant woman’s depressive symptoms. Our findings confirmed the mediating role of depressive symptoms in pregnant women and their husbands on the association of marital adjustment and health-promoting behaviors. According to the actor-partner study, a pregnant woman’s marital adjustment scores positively affected her studied behaviors and her husband (β = 0.071, 95% Cl: 0.042–0.278, P = 0.015) by decreasing her depression score. Therefore, the husband’s marital adjustment score positively affected his studied behaviors by decreasing his depression score (β = 0.084, 95% Cl: -0.053 -0.292, P = 0.005), and it did not affect his wife’s health-promoting behaviors.Discussion and conclusionThese findings suggest healthcare providers, obstetricians, and psychologists evaluate the husbands’ symptoms of depression and health-promoting behaviors in the routine pregnancy care of pregnant women. They also pay great attention to marital adjustment as a determinant of reducing depressive symptoms in pregnant women and their husbands.

The mutual influence of parent-child maladaptive emotion regulation on posttraumatic stress following flood exposure.

Decades of disaster research support the influence parents have on their children's adaptation. Recently, research has shifted to focus on disasters as a whole family experience. Using the actor-partner interdependence model, this study examines maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in parents and children and how these strategies influence their own and one another's posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS). The present study includes 485 parent-child dyads who experienced the 2015-2016 Texas floods. The majority of parents identified as mothers (66.3%), with a male child (52.8%) whose average age was 13.75 years. Mplus was used to identify the models and evaluate differences between each cognitive emotion regulation strategy across parent-child dyads in the high disaster exposure group compared to all other levels of exposure (other-exposure). Odds ratios examined differences not captured by the actor-partner interdependence model. Support for interdependence was found for the other-exposure group, suggesting parents and children mutually influence each other's PTSS by their own cognitive emotion regulation. No interdependence was found in the high-exposure group. However, high-exposure child actor effects were found for self-blame and other-blame, and child partner effects were only found for self-blame. Parent actor effects were only significant for catastrophizing and parent partner effects for catastrophizing and rumination. Odds ratios for the high-exposure group found that only child self-blame influenced parent PTSS, and only parent rumination and catastrophizing influenced child PTSS. Implications for supporting families after disasters are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Dual-Earner Couples’ Gender Role Attitudes and Their Parental Leave Decisions: A Longitudinal Study of Partner Influences

This study examines how men and women in heterosexual partnerships influence each other’s parental leave decisions through their gender role attitudes. We differentiate between attitudes toward women’s parental role, women’s worker role, men’s parental role, and men’s worker role, and consider the role of traditional gender ideology denoting an attitude of negatively evaluating mothers’ employment when children are young. We investigated communal traits as a potential moderator to better understand partner effects, i.e., one partner’s role attitudes affecting the other partner’s leave decision. We analyzed longitudinal data from N = 365 heterosexual, mainly German dual-earner couples, collected between pregnancy and about 18 months after the birth of their first child, using the actor-partner interdependence model. We examined mothers’ and fathers’ attitudes toward all five types of gender roles and found that both mothers and fathers were influenced in their leave decisions by their partners’ attitudes toward early maternal employment. Mothers whose partners were more traditional in this regard took longer leaves; fathers whose partners were more traditional took shorter leaves. Fathers’ leave length was also influenced by their partners’ attitudes toward men’s worker role, with more traditional attitudes resulting in shorter leaves. The latter relationship was moderated by fathers’ communal traits, such that more communal fathers were more strongly influenced by their female partners’ attitudes. Overall, this research extends the understanding of mutual influences and decision-making dynamics in dual-earner couples in the early family phase.

Family leisure and negative links between family of origin adversity and marital satisfaction

AbstractObjectiveThis study evaluated family leisure as a moderator of negative associations between family of origin adversity and subsequent marital relationship satisfaction.BackgroundNegative experiences during childhood often affect marital outcomes. However, the vulnerability‐stress‐adaptation model of marriage suggests couples can adapt in healthy ways to manage vulnerabilities. Family leisure is often used to address stress. Family leisure remains a strong predictor of relationship well‐being due to its ability to strengthen emotion regulation and build psychological resources, motivating an evaluation of family leisure as a potential ameliorating factor for links between family of origin adversity and marital relationship satisfaction.MethodThe study used a national dyadic sample of heterosexual married couples from the Couple Relationships and Transition Experiences (CREATE) study in the United States in 2021 (N = 1,462 couples). This study estimated an actor–partner interdependence model with dyadic connections and individual controls to evaluate family leisure in the context of married couples with past family of origin adversity.ResultsFamily leisure positively associated with marital satisfaction directly but did not moderate family of origin adversity.ConclusionThe study confirmed negative links between family of origin adversity and marital relationship satisfaction. Although the study also confirmed positive links between family leisure and relationship satisfaction, family leisure was not helpful as a buffer for family of origin adversity.ImplicationsFindings suggest couples with family of origin adversity should not use family leisure as a primary means of addressing stress from family of origin experiences to help with marriages and may have more success with other strategies.

(018) PILOT TESTING A NEW COUPLE-BASED SEX THERAPY INTERVENTION FOR SEXUAL INTEREST/AROUSAL DISORDER

Abstract Introduction Sexual interest/arousal disorder (SIAD) includes persistent and distressing symptoms of low sexual desire and/or arousal, which are the most common sexual difficulties among women. Meta-analyses of randomized clinical trials show that psychological therapies produce moderate to large improvements in clinically low sexual desire (Banbury et al., 2021; Frühauf et al., 2013; Günzler &amp; Berner, 2012). However, these therapies focus on individuals, neglecting the partner’s experience, which is known to affect and be affected by SIAD symptoms (Rosen et al., 2019). Despite the prevalence of SIAD and importance of interpersonal factors in the development and maintenance of low sexual desire, there are no empirically supported couple-based sex therapy interventions for this disorder. Objective To develop a new couple-based sex therapy intervention for SIAD following a cognitive-behavioral couple therapy (CBCT) framework. To test the CBCT intervention for SIAD in terms of feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy. Methods Nineteen couples in which a woman was diagnosed with SIAD completed a 16-session CBCT intervention delivered via Zoom by therapists with PhD-level training in clinical psychology. The goals of the CBCT intervention were to re-conceptualize SIAD in biopsychosocial-interpersonal terms, modify psychological and interpersonal factors associated with low sexual desire/arousal (Rosen &amp; Bergeron, 2019), and consolidate skills. Participants completed measures of dyadic sexual desire and sexual distress (primary outcomes) as well as sexual communication, sexual satisfaction, relationship intimacy, and relationship satisfaction (secondary outcomes) at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and at 6-month follow-up. We assessed preliminary efficacy using multilevel models guided by the actor-partner interdependence model (Kenny et al., 2020) to account for the interdependence of couple members’ data. Results The CBCT intervention was feasible as indicated by therapists’ high adherence to the treatment manual (96.8%) and couples’ high rates of homework completion (82.0%). The intervention was acceptable to couples, based on high session attendance rates (97.4%) and treatment satisfaction ratings (7.39/10 for women, 7.33/10 for partners). The intervention produced moderate to large pre- to post-treatment improvements in women’s dyadic sexual desire for their partner (p = .002, d = 0.73) and couple members’ sexual distress (p = .001, d = -0.93 for women, p = .002, d = -0.54 for partners) that were maintained at 6-month follow-up. Couples also reported moderate improvements in sexual communication and satisfaction immediately post-treatment (ps = .001-.02, ds = 0.40-0.53), but there were little to no changes in relationship intimacy or satisfaction post-treatment (ps = .05-.84, ds = 0.10-0.19). Conclusions Findings show that a couple-based sex therapy intervention grounded in theory and dyadic research evidence reduces SIAD symptoms (greater sexual desire, lower distress) and more broadly improves couples’ sexual wellbeing (improved sexual communication, satisfaction; lower distress). The lack of change in relationship outcomes may have been the result of couples having relatively high relationship wellbeing as a prerequisite for participation in the study. Also, the focus of the CBCT intervention was on sexual, rather than relationship wellbeing. This pilot study was based on a small sample and had no control group by design. A randomized clinical trial of the CBCT intervention is needed. Disclosure No.

1825-LB: Reproductive Health (RH) and Gestational Diabetes (GDM) Knowledge Mediates the Intervention Effect on the Intention to Communicate in Dyads of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) Female Adolescents and Young Adults (FAYA) at Risk for GDM and their Adult Female Caregivers

AIAN women are unduly impacted by GDM. This secondary analysis of Stopping GDM trial data explored possible mechanisms of action of a psycho-behavioral educational intervention targeting healthy behaviors to reduce GDM risk from pre- to post-test among AIAN FAYA. Dyads of FAYA and their adult female caregivers were recruited from 5 sites. Each dyad member independently completed questionnaires regarding RH and GDM knowledge, health beliefs, and intention to initiate discussion with healthcare providers (HCPs) and their corresponding dyad member. Between assessments intervention participants viewed a 45-minute video, the initial component of the intervention. Dyadic mediation analysis was conducted using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model extended to Mediation (APIMeM) assuming distinguishable dyad members. The sample (N=149 dyads; intervention; n=79; control: n=70) included FAYA (mean age 16.7±3.0 years) and adult female caregivers (mean age 44.1±9.3 years; 81.0% being mothers of FAYA). APIMeM revealed a positive actor indirect effect of the intervention for improvement in the FAYA’s intention to initiate discussion through increases in FAYA’s RH and GDM knowledge (1.53, 95%CI=[0.27, 2.98]). A positive partner indirect effect was also observed for the intervention on the improvement in the FAYA’s intention to initiate discussion through increases in the adult caregiver’s RH and GDM knowledge (0.61, 95%CI=[0.042, 1.42]). No effects were found for changes in health beliefs of FAYA or adult caregivers as mediators of intervention effects on FAYA’s and adult caregiver’s intention to initiate discussion. These results suggest that enhancing RH and GDM knowledge may improve key downstream outcomes such as communication between FAYA, adult caregivers and HCPs for AIAN FAYA at risk for GDM. Disclosure S.M. Sereika: None. K.R. Moore: None. S.A. Stotz: None. X. Pei: None. Y. Wang: None. D. Charron-Prochownik: None. Funding National Institutes of Health (R01-NR014831)

The relationship between sexual dysfunction and insomnia symptoms in older men with prostate cancer and their partners: an actor-partner interdependence model approach

The relationship between sexual dysfunction and insomnia symptoms in older men with prostate cancer and their partners: an actor-partner interdependence model approach

Food Insecurity and Children's Problem Behaviors: The Mediating Role of Parental Relationship Quality and Parenting Stress.

Food insecurity, identified as a critical stressor for many families, can directly and indirectly influence children's development through interparental relationships and parenting. This study examines how food insecurity relates to children's problem behaviors and the mediating roles of interparental relationship quality and parenting stress. It also investigates the association between parents' perception of relationship quality and both their own and their partner's parenting stress. The study included 2095 children from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study. The actor partner interdependence model was used to explore the actor and partner influence of relationship quality on parents' parenting stress. To examine the association pathways from food insecurity to children's problem behaviors, a structural equation model was conducted. Results suggest that fathers' perception of couple relationship quality predicted both their own and their partner's parenting stress while mothers' perception of couple relationship quality only predicted their own, but not fathers', parenting stress. In the positive association between food insecurity and children's problem behaviors, there was a serial mediation through mothers' perception of relationship quality and mothers' parenting stress. In addition, food insecurity was negatively correlated with mothers' perception of relationship quality, but not with that of fathers. This study highlights the pathway from food insecurity to children's problem behaviors through mothers' perceptions of interparental relationship quality and parenting stress. Results provide support for the family stress theory and offer valuable insights for the formulation of potential prevention and intervention programs.

Associations Between Pornography Use Through Different Media and Sexual and Relationship Satisfaction Among Cohabiting Couples.

Pornography can be used through multiple media and its associations with couples' relationship and sexual satisfaction are mixed. The aims of this study were to examine the proportion of use of different pornographic media (i.e., videos, pictures, audio material, and written material), including different contents (i.e., sexual activities and nudity), gender-based differences in the frequency of use of these media, and the associations between an individual's frequency of use of different pornographic media and their own and their partner's sexual and relationship satisfaction, considering potential gender differences. A sample of 706 adult couples (1368 participants; Mage = 32.19years) completed online self-report questionnaires. Results of actor-partner interdependence models indicated that video use was associated with lower relationship and sexual satisfaction, and partners' lower sexual satisfaction. Picture use was associated with lower relationship satisfaction and partners' lower sexual satisfaction. Written material use was associated with lower sexual satisfaction. Cisgender women's audio use was associated with their own higher sexual satisfaction, whereas cisgender men's audio use was associated with their partner's lower sexual satisfaction. These findings suggest different associations with sexual and relationship satisfaction depending on the pornographic media.

Under Pressure: Men’s and Women’s Sexual Performance Anxiety in the Sexual Interactions of Adult Couples

ABSTRACT Most research on sexual performance anxiety has focused on men’s experiences and links to erectile functioning and premature ejaculation, with little research attention given to women’s experiences or to relationship dynamics. At times, sexual performance anxiety has been examined in the context of dysfunction, but rarely as a focus in its own right. Study 1 asked 51 participants reporting sexual performance anxiety to describe the cognitive and affective components of their experiences, coping strategies, and perceived impact on their relationship using open-ended responses from online surveys. Through directed content analysis, Study 1 revealed that men and women experience a range of cognitive and affective processes with predominant feelings of inadequacy, and overall promoting more approach coping strategies. Study 2 used quantitative surveys to examine whether sexual performance anxiety was associated with higher sexual distress and lower sexual and relationship satisfaction in a sample of 228 community-based couples. Guided by the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, multilevel modeling analyses indicated that higher sexual performance anxiety was linked to higher sexual distress and lower sexual and relationship satisfaction in both individuals and their partners. This work advances knowledge of sexual performance anxiety to women’s experiences, not just men’s, and to couples’ experiences. Effective treatment for those suffering from this anxiety may incorporate education around sexual beliefs and expectations.

Testing the Associations Between Attachment Anxiety, Relational Aggression and Depressive Symptoms in Romantic Relationships: Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediator Model

Testing the Associations Between Attachment Anxiety, Relational Aggression and Depressive Symptoms in Romantic Relationships: Actor-Partner Interdependence Model and Actor-Partner Interdependence Mediator Model

DIADICS: a proof-of-concept study in mixed-sex couples

While the relational context of sexual desire is receiving increasing attention in research, generated insights remain fragmented. The Dyadic Interactions Affecting Dyadic Sexual Desire (DIADICS) model integrates such empirical findings, but the model as a whole has not been empirically tested yet. We conducted an online questionnaire study with 181 mixed-sex couples, to test the model’s assumptions on how sexual desire between partners is influenced by what each of them takes, gives, and receives in relation to their needs for affiliation, sexuality and exploration. Dyadic data analyses guided by the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) revealed that, while all these aspects of partner interactions are associated with dyadic sexual desire, the degree to which one asserts their needs for affiliation and sexuality is the most influential, underscoring partners’ agency in shaping their sexual desire for their partner in a romantic relationship. Moreover, Latent Profile Analysis (LPA) demonstrated that dyadic sexual desire may benefit from different combinations of partner interactions, supporting diversity in couple styles and paths to optimal sexuality. Found gender differences and effects of relationship duration on the associations between partner interactions and dyadic sexual desire offer additional insights on the workings of dyadic sexual desire in romantic relationships.

Mexican Immigrant Couples’ Marital Quality and Coparenting Satisfaction: The Role of Spouses’ Incongruence in Familism Values

With a sample of 120 Mexican immigrant couples, this study tested an estimated actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) to examine the associations between spouses’ perceptions of marital quality (i.e., marital warmth and marital negativity), spousal incongruence in familism values, and spouses’ coparenting satisfaction. The model simultaneously explored the moderating effects of spouses’ incongruence in familism values to ascertain the extent to which the within-couple match between spouses’ cultural values impacted the association between spouses’ marital quality and coparenting satisfaction. Significant and positive actor effects from marital warmth to coparenting satisfaction were found. A significant interaction qualified the actor effect for wives. Spouses’ incongruence in familism values moderated the association between wives’ marital warmth and their coparenting satisfaction in such a way that the link was stronger for couples with low spousal incongruence in familism values (i.e., couples in which spouses were in close agreement on familism values). Marital negativity and incongruence in familism values were not significantly related to spouses’ coparenting satisfaction. Findings underscore the link between spouses’ marital warmth and their coparenting satisfaction and suggest that effective coparenting is nested within the context of a warm and supportive marital relationship.

Effects of service encounter quality on courier and customer encounter satisfaction and loyalty in crowdsourcing logistics: an actor-partner interdependence model

ABSTRACT The quality of delivery service encounters in which crowdsourced couriers and customers highly interact and mutually influence each other affects their attitudes and behaviours. Crowdsourced couriers and customers are bilateral users of crowdsourced logistics platforms whose loyalty determines the sustainability of platforms in a competitive environment. Due to the interdependence of couriers and customers in service encounters, this study utilizes the novel actor-partner interdependence model to investigate the impact of service encounter quality on courier and customer responses drawing upon emotion contagion theory. Dyadic analysis demonstrates that courier and customer perceptions of service encounter quality are positively related to their encounter satisfaction, with subsequent effects on loyalty (actor effects), and encounter satisfaction mediates the relationship between their perceptions of service encounter quality and loyalty. Notably, we show that customer encounter satisfaction is not only influenced by their own perception of service encounter quality but also by the corresponding courier’s emotional contagion through interaction (partner effects). This study provides valuable insights for practitioners of crowdsourcing logistics platforms to improve the quality of future service encounters.

Effect of Spirituality on Psychological Resilience and Hope in Patient-Family Caregiver Dyads Experiencing Gynecological Cancer: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Analysis.

Women experiencing gynecological cancer (GCPs) and family caregivers (FCGs) use spirituality to cope with cancer. However, the dual relationship between the impact of spirituality on psychological resilience and hope among both GCPs and FCGs has not yet been explored. To examine the interdependent relationship between spirituality, psychological resilience, and hope of women with gynecological cancer and their FCGs at the dyadic level. In this cross-sectional study, 107 dyads were recruited from the gynecological oncology departments of 2 university hospitals in Ankara, Turkey. The GCPs and FCGs completed a Patient/Family Caregiver Information Form, Spiritual Well-being Scale, Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, and Dispositional Hope Scale. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and Pearson's correlations. This study used the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Spirituality of both GCPs and FCGs had a significant positive effect on their psychological resilience ( B = 0.918, P < .001; B = 0.435, P < .001, respectively) and hope ( B = 0.350, P < .001; B = 0.246, P < .001, respectively). However, the spirituality of GCPs and FCGs did not have a partner effect on psychological resilience ( B = -0.150, P < .052; B = -0.150, P = .052, respectively) and hope ( B = -0.012, P = .810; B = 0.073, P = .157, respectively). Spirituality of GCPs and their FCGs positively affected their psychological resilience and hope, but the effect on each other was limited. Health professionals, especially nurses, should focus on tailoring spiritual care interventions to the unique needs of each individual within the GCP and FCG dyads. Personalized approaches that recognize and address the specific spiritual concerns of patients and caregivers may be more effective in promoting psychological resilience and hope.

COVID-19 impact, resilience, and child quality of life: A dyadic analysis.

COVID-19 public health measures caused significant disruptions to child and caregivers' mental and physical well-being, including quality of life (QoL). However, in samples outside the United States (U.S.), greater resilience has been linked to lower COVID-19 impact on child QoL. Thus, understanding individual and dyadic factors contributing to resilience and QoL during COVID-19 within the United States may provide important insight for points of intervention. This study aimed to characterize the interdependent effects of child and caregiver COVID-19 impact on child and caregiver resilience, as well as on child-reported and caregiver proxy-reported child QoL. U.S. caregivers (n = 231; 95.7% female) and their 8-17-year-old children (n = 231; 54.5% male; Mage = 11.87; SDage = 2.66) reported their COVID-19 impact between May and July 2020 (T1). Follow-up self-reports on resilience and child QoL occurred between November 2020 and January 2021 (T2). Two actor-partner interdependence models (APIM) and one actor-partner interdependence mediation model (APIMeM) assessed associations among caregiver and child COVID-19 impact, resilience, and QoL. An APIM revealed significant negative actor and partner effects of COVID-19 impact on child self-reported and caregiver proxy-reported child QoL. Another APIM revealed an actor effect from COVID-19 impact to one's own resilience. The APIMeM revealed two indirect effects revealing that when children or caregivers reported greater levels of T1 COVID-19 impact, it was associated with lower levels of T2 child-reported resilience, which was subsequently associated with lower T2 child-reported QoL. Findings suggested that both child and caregiver perceptions of the pandemic were important for their own and the others' resilience, as well as child QoL. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

LMX 질이 피드백과 직무열의에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 상사와 구성원의 관점을 중심으로

mutual cooperation and sharing of information among individuals within an organization are important factors for organizational performance. As a result, there is an increasing interest in the direction of feedback that give information related to work between supervisor and subordinate. However, previous studies focus on the perspectives of subordinate receiving feedback from supervisor. Accordingly, this study sought to identify the effects of feedback from a wider variety of perspectives, such as the perspective of supervisor receiving feedback from subordinate and a feedback giver. For this purpose of study, I adopt the APIM(Actor-Partner Interdependence Model) with data on 174 dyads of supervisor and subordinate together in the team. The findings indicate that when both supervisors and employees perceive a high-quality relationship with each other, they are more likely to provide feedback to each other. Additionally, the perception of a high-quality relationship has a positive impact not only on the provision of feedback between supervisors and employees but also on individual job engagement. This research has several significant contributions. First, it highlights the importance of relationships in the context of feedback. When both supervisors and employees perceive a high-quality relationship with each other, feedback is more likely to occur. Second, the study assumes and empirically verifies that not only employees but also supervisors can receive feedback from their employees. Third, it confirms the effects of feedback on the job engagement of both employees and supervisors. Consequently, this study underscores the importance of feedback between supervisors and employees, particularly the need to manage upward feedback from employees.

The effect of illness perception on psychosocial adjustment of patients with breast cancer and their spouses: actor–partner independence model

ObjectiveWith the increase in the prevalence rate and improvements in the survival of breast cancer patients, there is a growing interest in understanding the level of psychosocial adjustment in these patients. The study aimed to describe the illness perception and psychosocial adjustment levels of both breast cancer patients and their spouses, to use the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model (APIM) to clarify the actor-partner relationships between spouses, and to explore the impact of illness perception on psychosocial adjustment to the disease within the joint actions of both spouses.MethodsA total of 216 female patients with breast cancer and their spouses participated in the study. They were selected from two tertiary hospitals in Guangdong Province, China from October 2022 to May 2023 using a convenience sampling method. The participants were assessed using the Brief Illness Perception Questionnaire and the Psychosocial Adjustment to Illness Scale to examine the relationship between illness perception and psychosocial adjustment. AMOS24.0 was used to test and analyze the actor-partner interdependence model.ResultsThe illness perception score (57.75 ± 10.91) was slightly higher than that of the spouse (57.10 ± 11.00), and the psychosocial adjustment score (64.67 ± 6.33) was slightly lower than that of the spouse (64.76 ± 7.49). The results of the actor-partner interdependence model indicated that there was a couple partner between breast cancer patients and their spouses: the spouse’s illness perception significantly affected the patient’s psychosocial adjustment (β = 0.095, p = 0.015); the patient’s illness perception also significantly affected the spouse’s psychosocial adjustment (β = 0.106, p = 0.033). Among them, the patient’s psychosocial adjustment was found to be related to the patient’s illness comprehensibility or coherence of illness (β = 0.433, p = 0.009), the spouse’s emotional illness representation (β = 0.218, p = 0.037), and the spouse’s illness comprehensibility or coherence of illness (β = 0.416, p = 0.007), while the spouse’s psychosocial adjustment was only related to the spouse’s illness comprehensibility or coherence of illness (β = 0.528, p = 0.007).ConclusionsThe psychosocial adjustment of breast cancer patients is affected by both their own and spouse’s illness perception. Therefore, in the future, the healthcare staff can implement early psychological interventions for patients diagnosed with breast cancer and their spouses as a unit to promote the psychosocial adjustment of them.

Interpersonal dynamics of vocal fundamental frequency in couples: Depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and relationship distress

Given the bidirectional association between psychopathology and relationship distress, an in-depth understanding of couples' interaction processes that contribute to psychopathology is needed. This study examined the interpersonal dynamics of vocally-encoded emotional arousal (fundamental frequency, f0) during couple conversations and their associations with depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and relationship distress. Data from eight samples were pooled (N = 404 couples) to examine (a) overall trajectories of f0 across the interaction and (b) moment-by-moment intraindividual changes in and interpersonal reactivity to partners' f0. Multilevel growth models and repeated-measures actor-partner interdependence models demonstrated that individuals with more severe depression showed more synchronizing reactivity to their partners' f0 on a moment-by-moment basis, and their overall baseline level of f0 was lower. More severe relationship distress was associated with more steeply increasing trajectories of f0 and with greater synchronizing reactivity to partners' f0. Relative differences in depressive symptoms between the two members of a couple were associated with interpersonal dynamics of f0 as well. There were no associations with anxiety symptoms. Thus, depressive symptoms were associated with characteristic interpersonal dynamics of vocally-encoded emotional arousal; yet, most consistent associations emerged for relationship distress, which future studies on individual psychopathology should take into account.