ATTACHMENT ANXIETY AND PARTNER GUIL T 243 Predicting the partner's guil Attachment anxicty and daily feeling SE SE 5.49 Hurt 92 478 -187 "p<05."p<01. the ociations he en the partner's guilt and individual's faction than more anxious individuals (b50.3.13.p1) by Kenny et al cate that partner's guilt will typically be asso oletion (Time 2) on (1)relatio nship satisfacti for individuals high in case prner gul migh tely othe diary (m()the parne to ma atis n the part ner'ult and anxety.The resu are in the t and is shown in Pa el B mnificant inter od the le ety we 2.116.p=25 -.60,1 2.56,p <02).In contrast,the although neither of these slopes r,focu of indivi who instead show site di on 20, when de ing gui of Figur A were no dif in Time 2 sat of guilt(see the lef sid 39.P gure 3B h (see the right t that feeli t has mor side of Figure 3A).less anxious individuals reported lower satis- for parters of individuals high in attachment anxiety. A.Partner's Perceptions of Hurt Feelings B.Partner's Guilt 2.5 25 23 --High Anxiet 3 High Anxiety 2.0 17 5 1.5 1.3 High Hurt Feelings The moderating effect of individuals'attachment n the links A graphs p tested the associations between the partner’s guilt and individual’s relationship satisfaction. Following guidelines by Kenny et al. (2006), we regressed relationship satisfaction gathered 9 months post-diary completion (Time 2) on (1) relationship satisfaction gathered immediately prior to the diary (Time 1), (2) the partner’s guilt averaged across the diary, (3) attachment anxiety, and (4) the interaction between the partner’s guilt and anxiety. The results are shown in the top half of Table 3. As predicted, there was a significant interaction between the partner’s guilt and attachment anxiety, which is displayed in Fig￾ure 3, Panel A. The more their partner felt guilty across the diary period, the less individuals low in attachment anxiety were satis￾fied 9 months later (b
–.60, t
2.56, p  .02). In contrast, the partner’s guilt did not have a detrimental impact on the satisfaction of individuals high in attachment anxiety, who instead showed a non-significant trend in the opposite direction (b
.20, t
1.03, p
.31). Thus, at low levels of the partner’s guilt (see the left side of Figure 3A), there were no differences in Time 2 satisfaction across individuals low versus high in anxiety (b
–.05, t
0.39, p
.70), but when partner’s guilt were high (see the right side of Figure 3A), less anxious individuals reported lower satis￾faction than more anxious individuals (b
.50, t
3.13, p  .01). These results indicate that partner’s guilt will typically be associ￾ated with lower satisfaction for individuals low in anxiety but not for individuals high in anxiety, in which case partner guilt might help to maintain satisfaction. We ran analogous models predicting the partner’s relationship satisfaction across time (see bottom half of Table 4). A significant interaction emerged and is shown in Panel B of Figure 3. The pattern suggested that experiencing greater guilt was associated with higher satisfaction for partners of individuals low in anxiety (b
.46, t
1.89, p
.06) but lower satisfaction for partners of individuals high in anxiety (b
–.23, t
1.16, p
.25), although neither of these slopes were significant. However, focus￾ing on partners who experienced high levels of daily guilt (see the right side of Figure 3B), partners of individuals high (vs. low) in attachment anxiety were less satisfied when experiencing guilt (b
–.42, t
2.70, p
.01). There were no differences in satisfaction when partners felt low levels of guilt (see the left side of Figure 3B; b
.07, t
0.51, p
.62). This pattern provides some support that feeling greater guilt has more detrimental effects for partners of individuals high in attachment anxiety. Table 2 The Effects of Attachment Anxiety and Daily Feelings of Hurt and Anger on the Partner’s Perceptions of Hurt and Partner’s Own Feelings of Guilt (Study 1) Attachment anxiety and daily feelings Predicting partner’s perceptions of hurt Predicting the partner’s guilt B SE t B SE t Prior day criterion .09 .02 5.55

.10 .02 5.49

Avoidance .00 .04 0.06 .05 .05 0.92 Anxiety .06 .04 1.40 .05 .05 0.87 Hurt .34 .02 14.18

.16 .03 5.96

Anxiety  Hurt .05 .02 2.36
.05 .02 2.20
Anger .22 .02 9.41

.12 .03 4.78

Anxiety  Anger .03 .02 1.42 .05 .02 1.87
p  .05.

p  .01. Figure 2. The moderating effect of individuals’ attachment anxiety on the links between individuals’ daily levels of hurt feelings on their partner’s perceptions of hurt feelings (Panel A) and their partner’s guilt (Panel B) reported every day for a 3-week period (Study 1). This figure presents two separate two-way interactions (see Table 2). Panel A graphs predicted values of the partner’s perceptions of hurt feelings, and Panel B graphs predicted values of the partner’s guilt feelings, as a function of individuals’ level of hurt feelings and attachment anxiety. High and low values are indexed at 1 SD above and below the mean. This document is copyrighted by the American Psychological Association or one of its allied publishers. This article is intended solely for the personal use of the individual user and is not to be disseminated broadly. ATTACHMENT ANXIETY AND PARTNER GUILT 243