The present review on dyadic co** (DC) aims at providing a critical integration of both the
conceptual and empirical DC literature and overcoming the limitations of past reviews by (a) …

Research on co** during childhood and adolescence is distinguished by its focus on how
children deal with actual stressors in real-life contexts. Despite burgeoning literatures within …

Drawing from 2 largely isolated approaches to the study of social stress—stress proliferation
and minority stress—the authors theorize about stress and mental health among same‐sex …

We present a theory of communal co** that describes an optimal pathway to patient
adjustment among couples in which one person faces a chronic illness. Communal co** …

A developmental-contextual model of couples co** with chronic illness is presented that
views chronic illness as affecting the adjustment of both the patient and the spouse such that …

This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In
addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical …

Dyadic co** has received increased attention during the last decade, both in theory and
empirical studies. Two main models of dyadic co** are proposed in the current …

Individual co** strategies and dyadic co** independently predict partner well-being and
relationship functioning; however, it is unclear whether the co** processes are inter …

Considered the most comprehensive handbook in the field, this rich resource reviews the
biological, psychological, and social factors that affect health, health behavior, and illness …

BACKGROUND We believe that couple intervention must be grounded in basic research.
When we began this work in the 1970s, there were only a handful of studies dedicated to …