Stressors external to the marriage frequently affect the way spouses evaluate their marital
quality. To date, however, understanding of the interplay between external stress and …

Highlights•Risk for marital distress is significantly greater for lower income couples.•Lower
income marriages develop in a context filled with negative stressors.•Stressful events …

Maintaining a relationship requires that intimates successfully navigate the ups and downs
of their daily experiences with their partners. Intimates whose daily global satisfaction is …

Studies of stress and marital quality often assess stress as an intrapersonal phenomenon,
examining how spouses' stress may influence their own relationship well‐being. Yet …

Stress spillover in marriage was examined within a stress-buffering conceptual framework in
a multiwave, longitudinal sample of newlywed husbands and wives (N= 101 couples) …

As all couples experience stressful life events, addressing how couples adapt to stress is
imperative for understanding marital development. Drawing from theories of stress …

In this chapter, the authors use longitudinal data on newly married couples to investigate the
differential effects of acute and chronic stress on marital outcomes. Often the role of the …

Stress is a concept that has received increased attention in marital research during the last
decade, showing that it plays an important role in understanding the quality and stability of …

Stressful experiences external to a marriage (eg, work stress, finances) are often associated
with poor relationship functioning and lowered marital satisfaction, a phenomenon called …

This paper explores the complex interplay between stressors and marital functioning,
beginning with a discussion of how key concepts from the stress and coping literature can …