![]() The review is organized around the four ingredients of self‐regulation (i.e., standards, monitoring, self‐regulatory capacity, and motivation). This review summarize this work and presents findings on how self‐regulation processes influence close relationship outcomes. ![]() In the past 20 years, greater attention has been devoted to the study of self‐regulation in an interpersonal context. Willingness to sacrifice and unmitigated communion develop in response to sociodemographics, personal history, and both partners' relationship cognitions. Unmitigated communion was higher when participants were more committed and more insecure in their partner's love. ![]() ![]() Participants were more willing to sacrifice when they were more committed, when they and their partners were happier with the union, and when household income was lower. Women, those with more prior partnerships, and those in longer term relationships were less willing to sacrifice and had lower unmitigated communion at baseline. Findings revealed each construct followed a declining curvilinear pattern with much variability underlying average trajectories. Rooted in a relational developmental systems perspective and drawing on German Family Panel data from 3,405 focal participants and their partners surveyed for 7 years, this study examined developmental trajectories of willingness to sacrifice and unmitigated communion, or putting a partner's needs above one's own to the exclusion of the self.
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