@article{ref1,
title="Self‐Respect and Pro‐Relationship Behavior in Marital Relationships",
journal="Journal of personality",
year="2002",
author="Kumashiro, Madoka and Finkel, Eli J. and Rusbult, Caryl E.",
volume="70",
number="6",
pages="1009-1050",
abstract="ABSTRACT This work advances an interdependence theoretic analysis of the role of self-respect in ongoing close relationships. Self-respect is defined as the tendency to perceive the self as a principled person who is worthy of honor and high regard and is argued to rest on moral integrity. Consistent with predictions, results from a study of marital relationships revealed that individual self-respect is positively associated with both the individual's and the partner's pro-relationship behavior (accommodation, forgiveness, conciliation). Mediation analyses revealed that self-respect not only exhibits direct associations with each person's behavior, but also exhibits indirect associations with each person's behavior, via the impact of each person's actions on reciprocal pro-relationship behavior from the partner. Mediation was more reliably observed for the association of self-respect with partner behavior than for the association with individual behavior. Both individual pro-relationship behavior and partner pro-relationship behavior are positively associated with couple well-being, which in turn is positively associated with personal well-being (life satisfaction, physical health, psychological adjustment). These associations were evident in both within-participant and across-partner analyses and for both self-report and interaction-based measures of behavior. Self-respect reliably accounts for unique variance beyond variance attributable to self-esteem.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-3506",
doi="10.1111/1467-6494.05030",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6494.05030"
}