In this study, gender had a negligible role in influencing social anxiety or capitalization support, with the exception that socially anxious women were observed to be more passive-destructive in the laboratory interaction whereas socially men were observed to be less passive-destructive.
In addition to examining the association between social anxiety and capitalization support, we wanted to test whether social anxiety disrupts the relational benefits associated with capitalization support.
Second, we focused on whether social anxiety and capitalization support continued to be associated with longitudinal relationship outcomes.
In these analyses, we focused on social anxiety and capitalization support as predictors of change in relationship satisfaction and commitment.
We wanted to ensure that the effect of social anxiety on capitalization support could not be attributable to the related construct of depressive symptoms.
It was only through simultaneous examinations of actor and partner effects for social anxiety and capitalization support did we find uncover conditions underlying healthy and unhealthy relationships.
Second, to address methodological limitations in prior research, we captured the behaviors and perspectives of both partners within a couple, and obtained six month follow-up data to examine how social anxiety and capitalization support predict changes in relational outcomes.
Controlling for depressive symptoms, interactions between social anxiety and capitalization support on longitudinal changes in relationship stability, satisfaction, and commitment remained statistically significant (notably, the Actor Social Anxiety x Provision of Capitalization Support interaction for relationship satisfaction became a trend at p = .05).05
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Specifically, we explored whether individual differences in social anxiety disturb the capitalization process in romantic relationships.
