Self-esteem, relationship threat, and dependency regulation: Independent replication of Murray, Rose, Bellavia, Holmes, and Kusche (2002) Study 3
(2018) Journal of Research in Personality — Vol. 72, n° 1, p. 5-9 (2018)
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Campbell, Lorne 
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- Across three studies, Murray, Rose, Bellavia, Holmes, and Kusche (2002) found that low self-esteem individuals responded in a negative manner compared to those high in self-esteem in the face of relationship threat, perceiving their partners and relationships less positively. This was the first empirical support for the hypothesized dynamics of a dependency regulation perspective, and has had a significant impact on the field of relationship science. In the present research, we sought to reproduce the methods and procedures of Study 3 of Murray et al. (2002) to further test the two-way interaction between individual differences in self-esteem and situational relationship threat. Manipulation check effects replicated the original study, but no interaction between self-esteem and experimental condition was observed for any primary study outcomes.
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Campbell, L., Balzarini, R. N., Kohut, T., Dobson, K., Hahn, C. M., Moroz, S. E., & Stanton, S. C. E. (2018). Self-esteem, relationship threat, and dependency regulation: Independent replication of Murray, Rose, Bellavia, Holmes, and Kusche (2002) Study 3. Journal of Research in Personality, 72(1), 5-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2017.04.001 (Original work published 2018)