Abstract
Using affection exchange theory, this study proposed a mediating model between attachment style, affectionate communication, and relationship satisfaction. This dyadic model used marital couples to test actor and partner effects. Overall, results supported the predicted model, including several significant indirect effects. Specifically, affection mediated the relationships between anxious attachment for wives and relationship satisfaction for both wives and husbands. Affection also mediated the relationship between anxious attachment for husbands and husband relationship satisfaction. Affection also mediated the relationship between avoidant attachment for wives and wife relationship satisfaction, as well as between avoidant attachment for husbands and husband relationship satisfaction. Additionally, actor and partner effects were found for the relationship between affectionate communication and relationship satisfaction for both husbands and wives.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
49
Issue
1
First Page
46
Last Page
66
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Campbell, Gemme M.; Brannon, Grace Ellen; Rauscher, Emily A.; Hesse, Colin; and Trask, Sara L.
(2017)
"The Dyadic Influence of Attachment and Affection on Relationship Satisfaction,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 49:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol49/iss1/6
Copyright
©2017 Iowa Communication Association
