We sampled routinely collected measures of role and outcome expectations, the expanded therapeutic alliance, and relationship satisfaction completed by 253 heterosexual couples seen by 35 therapists in the Marriage and Family Research Practice Network (Johnson et al., 2017) and investigated these variables as interdependent dyadic processes using the latent congruence model (Cheung, 2009) and the mediated actor-partner interdependence model (Ledermann et al., 2011). Taken together, we found a direct association between a couple's mean role and outcome expectation scores at Session 1 and individual partners' alliance perceptions at Session 3. Further, men rated the alliance more favorably when their outcome expectations were higher and the partners' outcome expectations were less discrepant. In terms of role expectations, both men and women began therapy expecting to be more actively engaged in the process than their partner. Whereas women rated the alliance more favorably when they had high role expectations for their partner as well as themselves, men rated the alliance more favorably when they had high expectations for their female partner's engagement in the therapy. Notably, alliance at Session 3 did not mediate the association between initial expectations and Session 4 relationship satisfaction due to a strong association (r = 0.85) between relationship satisfaction rated prior to Sessions 1 and 4. In other words, although the best predictor of relationship status before the fourth session was how the relationship was perceived before couple therapy began, men's and women's initial role and outcome expectations were important contributors to the early alliance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

中文翻译：

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异性恋夫妇的初始角色和结果期望是第四次会议之前治疗联盟和关系满意度的预测因素。


我们对婚姻和家庭研究实践网络（Johnson et al., 2017）中 35 名治疗师所见的 253 对异性恋夫妇所完成的角色和结果期望、扩大的治疗联盟和关系满意度的常规收集指标进行了抽样调查（Johnson 等，2017），并将这些变量作为相互依赖的变量进行调查。使用潜在一致性模型（Cheung，2009）和中介的参与者-合作伙伴相互依赖模型（Ledermann 等，2011）的二元过程。综上所述，我们发现第一节中夫妻的平均角色和结果期望得分与第三节中个体合作伙伴的联盟看法之间存在直接关联。此外，当男性的结果期望较高且合作伙伴的结果期望较高时，他们对联盟的评价更高差异较小。就角色期望而言，男性和女性开始治疗时都希望比伴侣更积极地参与这一过程。当女性对伴侣和自己抱有很高的角色期望时，她们对联盟的评价更高，而当男性对女性伴侣参与治疗的期望很高时，她们对联盟的评价更高。值得注意的是，由于第 1 节和第 4 节之前评估的关系满意度之间存在很强的关联 (r = 0.85)，因此第 3 节的联盟并没有调节初始期望和第 4 节关系满意度之间的关联。换句话说，尽管关系的最佳预测因子第四次会议之前的状态是在夫妻治疗开始之前如何看待这种关系，男性和女性的初始角色和结果期望是早期联盟的重要贡献者。 （PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2024 APA，保留所有权利）。