This meta-analysis reviewed 126 published empirical articles over the past 50 years
describing associations between marital relationship quality and physical health in more …

Couple relationship education (RE) is the provision of structured education intended to
promote healthy couple relationships, and prevent future relationship distress. There is a …

The purpose of the present meta‐analysis was to empirically test the widely held assumption
that women experience lower marital satisfaction than men. A total of 226 independent …

This longitudinal study examined the effect of the birth of the 1st child on relationship
functioning using data from 218 couples (436 individuals) over the course of the first 8 years …

The current work investigates how personality and interpersonal processes combine to
predict change in relationship quality. Measures of personality and emotion similarity were …

Weak and counterintuitive findings linking couples' interactional processes to marital
outcomes have prompted new lines of research on how marriages change. Recent findings …

Verbally aggressive exchanges between intimate partners are more likely during times of
stress. Therefore, the present study examines (i) whether partners' proneness to anger …

Social-learning perspectives explicitly recognize the role of partners' personal histories and
contexts as possible causes of couple communication behavior, but these assumptions are …

Research on the intergenerational transmission of divorce has demonstrated that compared
with offspring of nondivorced parents, those of divorced parents generally have more …

With a more specific focus than the all-encompassing textbook, each title in the Foundations
of Psychology series enables students who are new to psychology to get to grips with a key …