Abstract
Planning promotes progress toward goal achievement in a wide range of domains. To date, planning has mostly been studied as an individual process. In couples, however, the partner is likely to play an important role in planning. This study tested the effects of individual and dyadic planning on goal progress and goal-related actions. Two samples of couples (N = 76 and N = 87) completed daily diaries over a period of 28 and 21 days. The results indicate that individual and dyadic planning fluctuate on a daily basis and support the idea that dyadic planning is predominantly used as a complementary strategy to individual planning. As expected, individual and dyadic planning were positively associated with higher levels of action control and goal progress. In Sample 2, dyadic planning was only associated with goal progress on days in which individuals felt that they were dependent upon their partners’ behaviors to achieve their goals.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 239-253 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 2022 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2021 by the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc.
Funding
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by the Israel Science Foundation (Grant 690/19) awarded to the last author.
| Funders | Funder number |
|---|---|
| Israel Science Foundation | 690/19 |
Keywords
- dyadic planning
- planning
- romantic relationships
- well-being