AUTHOR=Aykutoğlu Bülent , Uysal Ahmet 

TITLE=The Relationship between Intimacy Change and Passion: A Dyadic Diary Study

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2017

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02257

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02257

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<p>In the current study we investigated the association between intimacy and passion by testing whether increases in intimacy generates passion (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Baumeister and Bratslavsky, 1999</xref>). Furthermore, we examined whether there are partner effects in intimacy change and passion link. Couples (<italic>N</italic> = 75) participated in a 14-day long diary study. Dyadic multilevel analyses with residualized intimacy change scores showed that both actors’ and partners’ intimacy change positively predicted actor’s passion. However, analyses also showed that residualized passion change scores positively predicted intimacy. Although these findings provide some empirical evidence for the intimacy change model, in line with the previous research (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Rubin and Campbell, 2012</xref>), they also suggest that it is not possible to discern whether intimacy increment generates passion or passion increment generates intimacy.</p>