Factors that contribute to the maintenance or decline of relationship satisfaction

F Righetti, R Faure, G Zoppolat, A Meltzer… - Nature reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
The quality of romantic relationships influences physical and mental health. However,
maintaining happy and healthy relationships is challenging; relationship satisfaction …

How both partners' individual differences, stress, and behavior predict change in relationship satisfaction: Extending the VSA model

JK McNulty, AL Meltzer, LA Neff… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
We pooled data from 10 longitudinal studies of 1,104 married couples to test the
Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) model of change in relationship satisfaction. Studies …

Automatic partner attitudes: Sources, implications, and future directions

R Faure, JK McNulty… - Social and Personality …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Satisfying romantic relationships offer numerous social and health benefits, making it critical
to understand the trajectory of relationship satisfaction. In recent years, research has begun …

Perceptions of partner responsiveness across the transition to parenthood.

D Smallen, J Eller, WS Rholes… - Journal of Family …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
This longitudinal study examined associations between perceptions of partner
responsiveness and relationship satisfaction of each partner (new parents) across the first 2 …

[HTML][HTML] How do people experience and respond to social control from their partner? Three daily diary studies

U Scholz, G Stadler, C Berli, J Lüscher… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Positive and negative forms of social control are commonly used to regulate another
person's health-related behaviors, especially in couples. Social control efforts have been …

Women's avoidant attachment, conflict solving, and relationship satisfaction through individualism and masculinity

I Bretaña, I Alonso-Arbiol, S Lavy, F Zhang - Current Psychology, 2024 - Springer
The utilization of specific strategies to manage couple conflict has a differential impact on
women's relationship satisfaction. However, considering that women's role within couple …

Self-esteem and romantic relationship quality

JV Wood, AL Forest, JP Friesen, SL Murray… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Although many laypeople believe that self-esteem influences the quality of relationships, the
empirical evidence is mixed. In this Review, we identify reasons for inconsistent findings and …

Perceiving greater commitment increases selfishness among disagreeable people

RN Sizemore, LR Baker - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Perceiving that a partner is highly committed tends to benefit close relationships. However,
there may be relational drawbacks to perceiving high commitment. In particular, given that …

Preliminary evidence that relationship nostalgia might offset romantic conflict to aid relationship commitment.

JA Swets, CR Cox, NV Ekas - Couple and Family Psychology …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Nostalgia, a sentimental longing for the past, increases well-being, especially in response to
psychological imbalance (eg, negative affect, loneliness). Recent work has examined how …

[PDF][PDF] Direct communication of conflict in close relationships and intention to change behavior: A within-person experiment

K Kakinuma, K Izuma - 2024 - osf.io
When people experience conflicts between their ideal standards and their partner's actual
state, they often attempt to directly regulate their partner (eg, by requesting their partner to …