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JOURNAL OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 81, Issue 2, Pages 263-277Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0022-3514.81.2.263
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Accommodation refers to the willingness, when a partner has engaged in a potentially destructive behavior, to (a) inhibit impulses toward destructive responding and (b) instead respond constructively. A pilot study and 3 additional studies examined the hypothesis that self-control promotes individuals' ability to accommodate in response to a romantic partner's potentially destructive behavior. Dispositional self-control was positively associated with accommodative tendencies in all 4 investigations, In addition, Study 1 (a retrospective study) and Study 2 (a laboratory experiment) revealed that in-the-moment self-regulatory strength depletion decreased the likelihood that an individual would accommodate. Finally, Study 3 demonstrated that self-control exerted a significant effect on accommodation even after the authors included commitment to the relationship in the model. Implications for relationship functioning are discussed.
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