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  • Romantic experiences and depressive symptoms: Testing the intensifying roles of rejection sensitivity and relationship commitment

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    Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie
    Vickers, Carolyn
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    Zimmer-Gembeck, Melanie
    Vickers, Carolyn T.
    Year published
    2007
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    Longitudinal associations between couple relationship satisfaction and dissolution, rejection sensitivity, and depression were investigated using structural equation modeling. Rejection sensitivity and relationship commitment were expected to exacerbate or attenuate some model paths. Participants were aged 17 to 21 (N = 179) in couple relationships. Relationship dissolution was less likely among those who were more satisfied and had lengthier relationships. A greater chance of dissolution was also associated with rejection sensitivity among those high in commitment but not among those who were low in commitment. With ...
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    Longitudinal associations between couple relationship satisfaction and dissolution, rejection sensitivity, and depression were investigated using structural equation modeling. Rejection sensitivity and relationship commitment were expected to exacerbate or attenuate some model paths. Participants were aged 17 to 21 (N = 179) in couple relationships. Relationship dissolution was less likely among those who were more satisfied and had lengthier relationships. A greater chance of dissolution was also associated with rejection sensitivity among those high in commitment but not among those who were low in commitment. With regards to predicting depression, rejection sensitivity, but not relationship factors, was directly associated with later depressive symptoms. When the current findings were integrated with previous research, it appears that negative relational thoughts and behaviours of high-rejection-sensitive persons were more likely to be activated and associated with mental health problems when personal relationship satisfaction or commitment was elevated.
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    Conference Title
    Conference Proceedings of the Combined 7th Annual Conference of the Australian Psychological Society's Psychology of Relationships Interest Group and International Association for Relationship Research Mini-Conference
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    http://www.psychology.org.au/Events/EventView.aspx?EventID=2027
    http://www.groups.psychology.org.au/GroupContent.aspx?ID=1562
    Copyright Statement
    © 2007 Australian Psychological Society. This is the author-manuscript version of the paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the publisher's website for access to the definitive, published version.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/17349
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