Table 12.

Changes in Comfort Depending on Romantic Partners Over Time as a Function of Sociopolitical-to-Personal Threat Defense Habits and Trust

	Perceptions of Partner Availability		Psychological Distancing
Predictor	b (SE)	z	b (SE)	z
Intercept	.106	--	−.151	--
Time	−.139 (.020)	−6.95***	.080 (.013)	6.15***
Actors’ threat-defense habits	.221 (.564)	0.39	−1.29 (.607)	−2.12*
Actors’ threat-defense habits by time	.304 (.340)	0.89	−.382 (.220)	−1.74+
Actors’ linear trust	.404 (.028)	14.43***	−.323 (.032)	14.04***
Actors’ linear trust by time	.004 (.016)	0.25	−.010 (.010)	−1.00
Actors’ linear trust by threat-defense habits	.327 (.578)	0.57	−.969 (.394)	−2.46*
Actors’ linear trust by threat-defense habits by time	−.258 (.376)	−0.69	.462 (.241)	4.15***
Actors’ quadratic trust	.013 (.013)	1.00	.009 (.015)	0.60
Actors’ quadratic trust by time	.008 (.007)	1.14	−.010 (.004)	−2.50*
Actors’ quadratic trust by threat-defense habits	.089 (.184)	0.48	−.135 (.463)	0.29
Actors’ quadratic trust by threat-defense habits by time	−.264 (.120)	−2.20*	.172 (.077)	2.23*
Partners’ threat-defense habits	1.03 (.578)	1.78+	−1.714 (.599)	−2.86**
Partners’ threat-defense habits by time	.110 (.321)	0.34	−.209 (.202)	−1.03
Partners’ linear trust	.091 (.028)	3.25***	−.090 (.032)	−2.81**
Partners’ linear trust by time	.020 (.016)	1.25	−.023 (.010)	−2.30*
Partners’ linear trust by threat-defense habits	.171 (.647)	0.26	−.215 (.389)	−0.55
Partners’ linear trust by threat-defense habits by time	−.105 (.362)	−0.29	.294 (.224)	1.31
Partners’ quadratic trust	.036 (.012)	3.00***	−.017 (.015)	−1.13
Partners’ quadratic trust by time	−.002 (.007)	−0.29	−.001 (.005)	−0.20
Partners’ quadratic trust by threat-defense habits	−.012 (.205)	−0.06	−.166 (.468)	−0.35
Partners’ quadratic trust by threat-defense habits by time	−.083 (.115)	−0.72	.115 (.071)	1.62

⁺p < .10

^*p < .05

^**p < .01

^***p < .001. Coefficients set to be random are italicized.