This research provides a conceptual replication and theoretical extension of the mutual cyclical growth model. This model proposes that dependence promotes relationship commitment, which promotes pro-relationship behavior, which—when detected by partners—promotes partners’ trust, which promotes partners’ willingness to depend on the relationship. Prior research supports these links on a month-to-month basis, but romantic partners’ thoughts, feelings, and behaviors may change on a day-to-day basis. The present research sought to replicate the model on a daily level, and to extend the model with an important potential moderator: individuals’ attachment orientations. Results from a dyadic daily-report study of romantic couples replicated the links in the mutual cyclical growth model at the level of day-to-day fluctuations in partners’ experiences; the links were especially strong for individuals high in attachment anxiety. This research provides insight into mechanisms through which close relationships develop and strengthen.

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浪漫关系日常经历中的依恋焦虑：相互周期性增长模型的扩展

这项研究提供了互循环增长模型的概念复制和理论延伸。该模型提出，依赖会促进关系承诺，从而促进亲关系行为，当合作伙伴发现时，这种行为会促进合作伙伴的信任，从而提高合作伙伴依赖该关系的意愿。先前的研究支持这些联系逐月变化，但浪漫伴侣的想法、感受和行为可能每天都在变化。目前的研究试图在日常水平上复制该模型，并通过一个重要的潜在调节因素来扩展该模型：个人的依恋取向。对浪漫情侣进行的每日报告研究的结果在伴侣经历的日常波动水平上复制了相互周期性增长模型中的联系；对于依恋焦虑高的人来说，这种联系尤其强烈。这项研究深入了解了亲密关系发展和加强的机制。