THE RELATIONSHIP OF INTERPERSONAL TRUST, EFFECTANCE, AND SOCIAL SELF-ESTEEM TO BOTH INTERACTIONAL AND EMOTIONAL NEED FULFILLMENT IN HUSBANDS AND WIVES (NEED FULFILLMENT, INTERACTIONAL NEEDS).
Contributors: New York University.
Published: 1991
Number of pages: 162
Subjects: Psychology, Social.; Health Sciences, Nursing.; Sociology, Individual and Family Studies.
Description: This study investigated the relationship of interpersonal trust, effectance, and social self-esteem to interactional and emotional need fulfillment for both husbands and wives.

The first hypothesis predicted that interpersonal trust would be positively related to both interactional and emotional need fulfillment for husbands and wives. The second hypothesis predicted that effectance and social self-esteem would be positively related to both interactional and emotional need fulfillment for husbands and wives. The third hypothesis predicted that interpersonal trust, effectance, and social self-esteem would explain more of the variance in interactional and emotional need fulfillment for both husbands and wives than any parameter alone.

The Trust Scale was used to measure levels of trust in intimate relationships. Effectance and social self-esteem are subscales of the Multidimensional Self-esteem Inventory (MSEI) which were developed and used in this study to measure components of an individual's self-esteem. The Partner Relationship Inventory (PRI) measured the perceived degree of interactional and emotional need fulfillment.

A sample of 115 married couples volunteered to complete the three questionnaires.

Hypotheses 1 and 2 were tested by the Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficient. Hypothesis 3 was tested by a stepwise multiple regression analysis.

The results indicated that the hypothesized relationships between the predictors of trust and both effectance and social self-esteem to need fulfillment were statistically significant, supporting the first and second hypotheses. The data for hypothesis 3 indicated that interpersonal trust accounted for the most variance in interactional and emotional need fulfillment for both husbands and wives. The findings also indicated that for both groups more of the variance in interactional and emotional need satisfaction was explained when trust and social self-esteem were considered together. More of the variance in wives' interactional needs was explained, however, when trust and effectance were considered together.
Notes: Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-09, Section: B, page: 5020.

Thesis (PH.D.)--NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, 1991.

School code: 0146.