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 …

Relationship maintenance encompasses a broad array of activities that partners may use to
preserve their romantic partnerships. For this article, we systematically review the vast …

Topically organized, Positive Psychology: The Science of Happiness and Flourishing
presents a highly engaging, up-to-date introduction to positive psychology. Authors William …

The COVID-19 pandemic presents acute, ongoing relationship challenges. The current
research tested how (1) preexisting vulnerabilities assessed prior to the pandemic …

Throughout history and around the world, religious leaders and philosophers have extolled
the virtue of gratitude. Some have even described gratitude as “social glue” that fortifies …

Five studies examined whether receiving gratitude expressions from a romantic partner can
buffer insecurely attached individuals from experiencing low relationship satisfaction and …

The COVID‐19 pandemic brings to light many areas the field of counselling and
psychotherapy may need to address in future research. We outline several issues stemming …

Decades of research from across the globe highlight unequal and unfair division of
household labor as a key factor that leads to relationship distress and demise. But does it …

How romantic partners respond to stress has important implications for the well-being of
their relationship. In this study, we examined the effects of three types of stress on …

The purpose of this meta-analysis was to quantitatively consolidate the literature on the
association between economic strain and couple relationship functioning (negative …