Sentences with phrase «avoidance goals»

So although sex (even if avoidance - motivated) provides a daily boost of satisfaction, how does having sex for avoidance goals impact a relationship over time?

People motivated by avoidance goals, however, worry a lot more about failing.

In other words, people perceive having sex for approach goals (vs. avoidance goals) as being associated with higher desire and satisfaction regardless of the person's gender or relationship length.

Not surprisingly, people who had sex more for avoidance goals over the course of the diary reported lower desire and felt less sexually satisfied four months later.

The data suggest that on days when one partner in a relationship has sex for avoidance goals, the other partner feels more negative emotions and reports lower relationship and sexual satisfaction.

Moving Toward More Perfect Unions: Daily and Long - Term Consequences of Approach and Avoidance Goals in Romantic Relationships.

For example, an individual may give to their partner to pursue positive relationship outcomes, such as to feel closer or to express love (i.e., also known as approach goals) or to avert negative outcomes such as to avoid disappointing a partner or to prevent conflict (i.e., also known as avoidance goals).

Approach and avoidance goals apply to a wide range of relationship behaviors.

These initial findings suggest that reasons for having sex are differentially linked to relationship and sexual outcomes — specifically, people who have sex for approach goals are perceived to have higher desire and satisfaction, whereas people who have sex for avoidance goals are perceived to have lower desire and satisfaction.

Research from the University of Rochester found that people are motivated by either «approach goals» or «avoidance goals.»

The researchers had expected this association for avoidance goals, but they were surprised to find that working to outdo others tended to undermine performance.»

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Given that having sex for avoidance goals is associated with more negative outcomes for both partners, is it better to not have sex at all than to have sex for avoidance goals?

Avoidance goals: A person having sex for these reasons is focused on averting negative outcomes in their relationship, such as conflict or disappointing a partner.

In some scenarios couples were married for several years (vs. dating for several months), John's reason for sex was indicated instead of Katie's, and sex was pursued for an avoidance goal (to avoid disappointing the partner) as opposed to an approach goal (to feel closer).

In contrast, on days when a person had sex more for avoidance goals, such as to avoid conflict or to prevent their partner's disappointment, they reported lower sexual desire and, in turn, lower satisfaction.

In her talk, Dr. Impett discussed some of our work on sexuality where we consider couples» approach and avoidance goals for sex and how one partner's sexual goals influence the other partner's sexual and relationship quality.

One interesting finding is that although we might have sex to avoid disappointing our partner (i.e., for avoidance goals), partly because we believe it provides benefits to our partner (even if it doesn't benefit us as much), this is not the case.

In one study, we tested how approach and avoidance goals for sex are associated with sexual desire and satisfaction by having people in relationships read different scenarios and rate the sexual desire, sexual satisfaction and relationship satisfaction of the couple members in the scenario.

1 In short, it seems that having sex to avoid negative outcomes may provide daily benefits compared to not having sex, but if sex is commonly pursued for avoidance goals, it negatively impacts the well - being of the relationship over time.

Hhaving sex for avoidance goals may provide a daily boost in relationship satisfaction compared to not having sex at all (although not nearly as much of a boost as having sex for approach goals!).

However, we found that having sex to avoid disappointing your partner (i.e., for avoidance goals) is actually associated with partners reporting less desire and satisfaction.1 In other words, when people simply «give it up» to avoid negative outcomes in their relationships, their partners have less positive sexual experiences and feel worse about the relationship.

Impett and colleagues recently published a paper about 3 studies where they looked at romantic relationships in terms of approach versus avoidance goals: