For most adults, sleep is a dyadic behavior. Only recently have studies explored the dynamic
association between sleep and relationship functioning among bed partners. The current …

The majority of adults sleep with a partner, and for a significant proportion of couples, sleep
problems and relationship problems co-occur, yet there has been little systematic study of …

Despite most American adults sharing a bed with a romantic partner, sleep research has
examined sleep primarily as an individual behaviour. A growing body of research indicates …

Objectives Sleep problems increase in later life. Studies have linked sleep with marital
satisfaction, yet mechanisms, such as mood, have not been explored. The current study is …

Remaining satisfied with a relationship often requires thinking in ways that use self-
regulatory resources—satisfied couples discount undesirable experiences when forming …

Sleep is a critical health behavior and one that is typically shared between husbands and
wives or romantic partners. However, the science of sleep has traditionally conceptualized …

Although prior research demonstrates the interdependence of sleep quality within couples
(ie, the sleep of one partner affects the sleep of the other), little is known about the degree to …

Previous research suggests that divorced individuals, particularly women, have higher rates
of sleep disturbances as compared to married individuals. Among the married, however …

Objective We and others have found that couples' sleep is a shared and dyadic process.
Couples' sleep-wake concordance (whether couples are awake or asleep at the same time) …

SLEEP, Vol. 33, No. 7, 2010 863 Commentary—Hale there is selection out of marriage.
Rather than conceiving of the causal direction in the observed associations as going from …