New paper out:Perceived Partner Responsiveness Mediates the Association between Social Anxiety and R
A new paper from our lab just came out in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology. This paper, co-written by Eran Bar-Kalifa, Adi Hen-Weissberg, and Eshkol is our first paper on a topic which is now central to the lab's work – namely, relationship processes in social anxiety. (The data reported within it served as pilot data for our ISF-funded project on this topic, now entering its 2nd year).
Here's the abstract of the paper:
Despite the inherent interpersonal nature of social anxiety (SA), a surprisingly sparse literature addresses the interpersonal processes occurring within the committed romantic relationships of SA individuals. The current study tested the hypothesis that the relational phenomenon of perceived partner (un)responsiveness (PPR; Reis, Clark, & Holmes, 2004), mediates the association between SA and poor relationship satisfaction. We used recently-developed actor-partner-interdependence mediational models with data from a 35-day dyadic diary study of 80 committed couples. Social anxiety was found to be tied to poor relationship satisfaction in the daily lives of both persons with SA (actors) and their partners. For the actors, this negative association was fully mediated by the actor’s perception of poor partner responsiveness. In contrast, for the partners, this negative association was not attributable to PPR. The results remained essentially unchanged even when controlling for comorbid depressive symptoms and for prior relationship satisfaction.
