時系列と階層性の視座に基づく親密な関係研究：発達心理学と社会心理学による統合的アプローチ

It is important to examine close relationships because they play a pivotal role in individuals' growth, development, and well-being. This article presents a novel approach that incorporates individual-dyad hierarchical perspectives from social psychology with the temporal perspectives of developmental psychology. Research on adult attachment shows that there are missing links between developmental and social psychological studies of close relationships. This review explores the possibility of an integrative approach, based on temporal perspectives that investigate the developmental course of attachment style, and hierarchical perspectives which examine the processes involved in dyadic relationships at both individual and dyad levels including structure of interaction and shared relational efficacy. Longitudinal data analyses (cross-lagged model and latent growth curve model) and dyadic data analyses (pairwise correlation analysis, common fate model, and multilevel structural equation modeling) are reviewed to illuminate empirical research methods and data correction issues. Future studies on close relationships require consideration of both developmental and social psychological perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]