The COVID-19 pandemic poses an acute threat to the well-being of children and families
due to challenges related to social disruption such as financial insecurity, caregiving burden …

Social psychologists have a longstanding interest in the mechanisms responsible for the
beneficial effects of positive social connections. This article reviews and integrates two …

Abstract The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly altered people's daily
lives and created multiple societal challenges. One important challenge of this unique …

The present study uses a qualitative approach to understand the impact of COVID-19 on
family life. Australian parents of children aged 0–18 years were recruited via social media …

Given the powerful implications of relationship quality for health and well-being, a central
mission of relationship science is explaining why some romantic relationships thrive more …

External stressors can erode relationship quality, though little is known about what can
mitigate these effects. We examined whether COVID-related stressors were associated with …

Although getting married is no longer a requirement for social acceptance, most people do
marry in their lifetimes, and couples across the socioeconomic spectrum wish their …

Families have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated lockdown, but
barely any research has been conducted yet, investigating how COVID-19-related stressors …

The broad isolation, separation, and loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic raise risks
for couples' relationship quality and stability. Guided by the vulnerability–stress–adaptation …

The quality of communication between spouses is widely assumed to affect their subsequent
judgments of relationship satisfaction, yet this assumption is rarely tested against the …