This study examined the moderating effect of motivation and interdependent self-construal in love relationship between sacrifice and satisfaction to Chinese unmarried couples. A survey of 116 Chinese couples aged 18 and older (116 men and 116 women) w...
This study examined the moderating effect of motivation and interdependent self-construal in love relationship between sacrifice and satisfaction to Chinese unmarried couples. A survey of 116 Chinese couples aged 18 and older (116 men and 116 women) was conducted via the Internet to verify the three-way interaction effects of sacrifice, avoidance motive and interdependent self-construal of relationship satisfaction through regression analysis. Analysis shows that first, the sacrifice of men and women affects the satisfaction of the love relationship. Second, the perception of sacrifice of women did not have the motivating effect of their own avoidance motive in the effect on the partner's love relationship satisfaction. Third, the man’s perception of woman's sacrificing showed the motivating effect of the woman's motive of avoidance and interdependent selfUconstrual on the man's relationship satisfaction. The results of this study suggest that when a woman makes a sacrifice by an avoidance motive in a relationship, the more often a man perceives a woman's sacrifice, the more satisfied he is about the relationshiP, and this is because the woman's interdependent selfUconstrual is high. Based on these results, the relationship of men and women's sacrifice, motivation, and interdependent selfUconstrual on the relationship satisfaction was discussed.