This review focuses on broad themes characterizing marital research in the past decade. In
addition to continuing themes, such as a focus on conflict, violence, and impact on physical …

Previous literature on growth after major life events has primarily focused on negative
experiences and operationalized growth with measures which rely on the post hoc self …

The present study took a critical look at a central construct in couples research: relationship
satisfaction. Eight well-validated self-report measures of relationship satisfaction, including …

Remediating deficits and managing disabilities has been a central preoccupation for clinical
psychologists. Positive Psychology, in contrast, is concerned with the enhancement of …

Five studies were conducted to develop a short form of the Experiences in Close
Relationships (ECR) questionnaire with optimal psychometric properties. Study 1 involved …

The associations between marital distress and Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
Disorders (4th ed.; DSM–IV; American Psychiatric Association, 1994) Axis I psychiatric …

Social and personality psychologists are often interested in the extent to which similarity,
agreement, or matching matters. The current article describes response surface analysis …

This study examined the impact of unmarried relationship break-up on psychological
distress and life satisfaction using a within-subjects design. Among unmarried 18-to 35-year …

This study examined the role of nonoffending parental support in the relationship between
child sexual abuse (CSA) and later romantic attachment, psychiatric symptoms, and couple …

We conducted a reliability generalization meta‐analysis to examine the internal consistency
of Dyadic Adjustment Scale (DAS; Spanier, 1976) scores across 91 published studies with …