大多数情况下,积极的期望与提高关系质量有关(Lemay和Venaglia,2016)。例如,Murray等人。 (1996)发现,更积极的夫妻看待他们的关系和他们的伴侣,这些关系持续存在的可能性越大,这对夫妻报告冲突的可能性就越小。积极的期望甚至可能通过自我实现的预言使关系得到改善;如果你希望你的伴侣善良,你可能会无意中促进他或她的善行(Snyder等,1977)。然而,不切实际的乐观预测可能会使夫妻没有准备好处理关系问题,因此可能会降低关系满意度(Lavner et al.,2013)。具有较高期望的夫妻可能不太可能努力解决他们的关系问题或讨论他们的关系问题,因此他们的关系可能会减少幸福感(Lemay和Venaglia,2016)。
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