Does it really matter if your partner is the smartest, kindest, or most beautiful person you've ever met?
, and status . They also completed relationship measures. Results indicated that when derogation was taken into consideration, idealization had little importance. Idealizing a partner showed few positive associations with relationship quality. The exceptions were that idealizing a partner’s communal and attractiveness attributes was related to greater. Meanwhile, derogating a partner consistently predicted negative outcomes for all attribute types.
In the second study, 98 Chinese couples in Beijing rated themselves and their partners on the same attribute types and completed relationship measures. Results showed that idealizing a partner was related to positive relationship outcomes. Meanwhile, derogating a partner was again associated with lower relationship quality. Again, being the object of idealization or derogation was generally of little consequence.
We conclude that despite popular beliefs that one should idealize their partner, “…there may be no need for a pedestal, except when it comes to beauty” . So go ahead and think that your partner is the most beautiful person in the world for the sake of your relationship, but there is no need to think that they are the smartest, the kindest, or the most powerful.Wu, K., Chen, C., Greenberger, E., Wang, Y., Xiu, D., Liu, B., ... & Dong, Q. .
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