Spillover Effects When Taking Turns in Dyadic Coping: How Lingering Negative Affect and Perceived Partner Responsiveness Shape Subsequent Support Provision

Pauw, Lisanne S; Hoogeveen, Suzanne; Breitenstein, Christina J; Meier, Fabienne; Rauch-Anderegg, Valentina; Neysari, Mona; Martin, Mike; Bodenmann, Guy; Milek, Anne

doi:10.5167/uzh-202611

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Pauw, L. S., Hoogeveen, S., Breitenstein, C. J., Meier, F., Rauch-Anderegg, V., Neysari, M., Martin, M., Bodenmann, G., & Milek, A. (2021). Spillover Effects When Taking Turns in Dyadic Coping: How Lingering Negative Affect and Perceived Partner Responsiveness Shape Subsequent Support Provision. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 637534. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.637534

Abstract

When experiencing personal distress, people usually expect their romantic partner to be supportive. However, when put in a situation to provide support, people may at times (still) be struggling with issues of their own. This interdependent nature of dyadic coping interactions as well as potential spillover effects is mirrored in the state-of-the-art research method to behaviorally assess couple's dyadic coping processes. This paradigm typically includes two videotaped 8-min dyadic coping conversations in which partners swap roles as