PSYC 241 Study Guide - Final Guide: Positive Illusions, Realistic Conflict Theory, Claude Steele
16 Dec 2017
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The quality of one"s close relationships is the single most important influence on one"s subjective well-being, including both everyday happiness and life satisfaction . Growing amount of research linking satisfying relationships to: positive health outcomes. When things are going well, even more health outcomes for men. When things are going poorly, even worse health outcomes for women: social support (bolger et al. , 1996, capitalization (gable et al. , 2006. Having close personal relationships when things are bad can ease the load . Having close personal when things are good can make things even better: michelangelo effect (drigotas et al. , 1999) Our romantic partners see ourselves as even more positive than we see ourselves. Overtime, we can become the better versions of ourselves (that our partners see: goal pursuit (cavallo et al. , 2012) People who care about us, help us in pursuit of our goals: self-expansion (aron & aron. , 1996)
