Abstract

Physiological linkage refers to moment-to-moment, time-linked coordination in physiological responses among people in close relationships. Although people in romantic relationships have been shown to evidence linkage in their physiological responses over time, it is still unclear how patterns of covariation relate to in-the-moment, as well as general levels of, relationship functioning. In the present study with data collected between 2014 and 2017, we capture linkage in electrodermal activity (EDA) in a diverse sample of young-adult couples, generally representative and generalizable to the Los Angeles community from which we sampled. We test how naturally occurring, shifting feelings of closeness with and annoyance toward one's partner relate to concurrent changes in levels of physiological linkage over the course of 1 day. Additionally, we examine how linkage relates to overall relationship satisfaction …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

Adela C Timmons, Sohyun C Han, Theodora Chaspari, Yehsong Kim, Shrikanth Narayanan, Jacqueline B Duong, Natalia Simo Fiallo, Gayla Margolin

Journal

Emotion

Volume

23

Issue

7

Pages

1815

Publisher

American Psychological Association