Work-family conflicts and perceived fairness of housework division in dual-earner couples during COVID-19

X Li, B Jin, HH Kelley, H Cao, N Zhou, E Holmes… - Sex Roles, 2024 - Springer
Using three-annual-wave, dyadic data from different-gender, dual-earner couples in the
United States (N= 904 couples), we delineated associations between work-family conflict …

Financial communication as a mediator between financial values and marital outcomes

AB LeBaron‐Black, MT Saxey, CJ Totenhagen… - Family …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We test whether perceived similarity of partners' financial values is associated with
marital satisfaction and stability and whether financial communication mediates these …

“Feeling It”: Links between elements of compassion and sexual well-being

AM Fraser, CE Leavitt, JB Yorgason… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Compassion may be a particularly important component of a sexual relationship
as it facilitates needed self-awareness, understanding, and connection to frame deeply …

Couple-level attachment styles, finances, and marital satisfaction: Mediational analyses among young adult newlywed couples

X Li, MA Curran, AB LeBaron-Black… - Journal of Family and …, 2021 - Springer
Guided by attachment theory and the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation model, we used three-
annual-wave, dyadic data from a nationally representative sample of 1136 young-adult …

Relationship quality and support for family policy during the COVID‐19 pandemic

S James, A Ben Brik, MK Jorgensen‐Wells… - Family …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We examined how relationship satisfaction changed during the coronavirus
(COVID‐19) pandemic, as well as how relationship satisfaction related to public policy …

Applying the developmental model of marital competence to sexual satisfaction: Associations between conflict resolution quality, forgiveness, attachment, and sexual …

DB Allsop, CE Leavitt, MT Saxey… - Journal of Social …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Sexual satisfaction is a complex construct that is affected by many diverse factors. Without a
comprehensive framework guiding their work, scholars and practitioners who work with …

Mindfulness and individual, relational, and parental outcomes during the transition to parenthood

CE Leavitt, JS Wikle, E Kramer Holmes… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
With more than one million couples transitioning to parenthood each year, finding ways to
enable healthier transitions is salient. Trait mindful awareness and sexual mindfulness were …

Money to marriage, or marriage to money? Examining the directionality between financial processes and marital processes among newlywed couples

MT Saxey, AB LeBaron-Black, JP Dew… - Journal of Social …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Researchers have shown that if couples manage their money in sound ways, their
marriages may benefit. Scholars have also shown that the quality of a marriage may …

Do couples who play together stay together? A longitudinal dyadic examination of shared leisure, financial distress, and relationship outcomes

CJ Totenhagen, X Li, MJ Wilmarth, KL Archuleta… - Family …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We examined whether shared leisure offers protection against negative associations
between financial distress and relationship quality (satisfaction and commitment) for lower …

Sexual satisfaction predicts future changes in relationship satisfaction and sexual frequency: New insights from within-person associations over time

HG Park, ND Leonhardt, MD Johnson… - Personality …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Considerable research demonstrates a positive association between sexual satisfaction and
relationship satisfaction, but longitudinal evidence on the direction of this link remains …