Through thick and thin: Perceived partner responses to negative and positive events

The study presented in this chapter adopted a dyadic approach to investigate couples’ coping with daily situations. It analyzed the role of perceived partner responses to negative events as well as to positive events occurring in partners’ everyday lives. The first aim was to analyze whether and how partners’ perceptions of the other’s typical, dispositional responses of dyadic coping and capitalization were associated over time, specifically testing for the direction of effects. A second objective of the study was to examine whether partners’ trust mediated the longitudinal associations between the two processes.