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The authors developed and tested the Relationship Sabotage Scale (RSS) to measure self-defeating patterns in romantic relationships. They ran three studies with a total of 1,365 English-speaking people from varied gender, sexual, and cultural backgrounds. After initial exploratory analyses, a confirmatory factor analysis supported a final 12-item scale with three…
This article looked at how each partner's attachment style (anxiety and avoidance) links with relationship trust, satisfaction, and commitment. The authors used two studies of couples (total N = 185 people, 123 couples) and found that a person’s insecure attachment was tied to worse relationship ratings, but the partner’s attachment…
