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 …

The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower
levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over the past several …

Sexuality research focuses almost exclusively on individuals rather than couples, though
ongoing relationships are very important for most people and cultures. The present study …

Developmental psychopathology seeks to unravel the complex connections among
biological, psychological, and social-contextual aspects of normal and abnormal …

A meta‐analysis of predictors of nonmarital romantic relationship dissolution was conducted,
including data collected from 37,761 participants and 137 studies over 33 years. Individual …

A meta-analysis that included 19 samples with a total of 3848 participants showed that
scores on four of the Five-Factor Model personality factors correlated significantly with level …

Two main theoretical approaches have been put forward to explain individual differences in
life satisfaction: top-down (ie, personological) and bottom-up (ie, situational). The authors …

The influence of social relationships on human development and behavior is receiving
increased attention from psychologists, who are central contributors to the rapidly …

Quality ties to others are universally endorsed as central to optimal living. Social sci entists
have extensively studied the relational world, but in somewhat separate litera tures (eg …

A model of risk regulation is proposed to explain how people balance the goal of seeking
closeness to a romantic partner against the opposing goal of minimizing the likelihood and …