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A Fading Affect Bias First: Specific Healthy Coping with Partner-Esteem for Romantic Relationship and Non-Relationship Events

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  • Jeffrey Alan Gibbons

    (Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA)

  • Spencer Dunlap

    (Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA)

  • Kyle Horowitz

    (Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA)

  • Kalli Wilson

    (Department of Psychology, Christopher Newport University, 1 Avenue of the Arts, Newport News, VA 23606, USA)

Abstract

The Fading Affect Bias (FAB) is the faster fading of unpleasant affect than pleasant affect. Research suggests that the FAB is an indicator of general healthy coping, but it has not shown consistent specific healthy coping via differential relations of the FAB to individual differences across event types. Although previous research did not find specific healthy coping for the FAB across romantic relationship events, these researchers did not include non-relationship control events. Therefore, we examined the relation of the FAB to various relationship variables across romantic relationship events and non-relationship control events. We found general healthy coping in the form of robust FAB effects across both event types and expected relations between relationship variables and the FAB. We also found three significant three-way interactions with the FAB showing specific healthy coping for partner-esteem, which is novel for the FAB. Rehearsal ratings mediated all the three-way interactions.

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  • Jeffrey Alan Gibbons & Spencer Dunlap & Kyle Horowitz & Kalli Wilson, 2021. "A Fading Affect Bias First: Specific Healthy Coping with Partner-Esteem for Romantic Relationship and Non-Relationship Events," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(19), pages 1-21, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:18:y:2021:i:19:p:10121-:d:643755
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