Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7239929 | Current Opinion in Psychology | 2018 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
A model of meaning maintenance in relationships is proposed to explain how relationships function to regulate threats to shared systems of meaning posed by life's capricious and unexpected events. This model assumes that people flexibility compensate for unexpected events in the world by affirming the expected in their relationship and compensate for unexpected events in the relationship by affirming the expected in the world. Supportive evidence is reviewed that reveals how people in more or less satisfying relationships flexibly maintain a sense of life's meaning in the face of unexpected events.
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Authors
Sandra L Murray, Veronica Lamarche, Mark D Seery,