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Perceived partner humility mediating attachment and relationship quality association – a dyadic study

Attachment models guide our perceptions of and reactions to social experiences including how we act towards our partners and how we perceive them (Mikulincer & Shaver, 2005). Perceiving the partner as appreciative and responsive positively affects relationship quality. Recent findings suggest perceiving the partner as humble, other-oriented and less self-focused might prove beneficial to overall relationship functioning, as well (Davis et al., 2011). The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of perceived partner humility on the association between attachment dimensions and relationship quality using an online questionnaire with 641 Croatian dating couples (age range 20 – 39 ; average relationship duration 3 years) who filled out the following measures: Experience in Close Relationships (Kamenov & Jelić, 2003) to assess attachment dimensions, Perceived Partner Humility Scale (Mehulić et al., 2020) and the Quality of Marriage Index (Norton, 1983). Dyadic analyses were conducted within the APIMeM framework (Kashy & Kenny, 2000). Results showed that perceived partner humility played a mediating role in both the actor and the partner effects of attachment anxiety and relationship quality with the model explaining 27% of criteria variance for men and 31% for women. The results also indicated that perceived partner humility was only partly relevant to the association between attachment avoidance and relationship quality. Participants’ anxiety was associated with perceiving their partners as less humble (βmen = -.19, p < .01 ; βwomen = -.29, p < .01) and at the same time being perceived as less humble by their partners (βmen = -.10, p < .01 ; βwomen = -.17, p < .01) whereas participants’ avoidance was associated only with viewing their partner as less humble (βmen = -.23, p < .01 ; βwomen = -.16, p < .01). These results emphasize the importance of humility for relationship quality and provide insight into the association between attachment dimensions and perceived partner humility.

attachment dimensions ; perceived partner humility ; relationship quality ; dyads ; dyadic study ; APIMeM

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