Associations among financial well-being, daily relationship tension, and daily affect in two adult cohorts separated by the great recession

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21498751
AutoresAugust I C Jenkins (0000-0002-5971-9787, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA, autor de correspondencia), Yunying Le (0000-0002-4172-5943, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Agus Surachman (0000-0001-7474-9450, University of California, San Francisco), D M Almeida (0000-0002-5233-8148, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA), Steffany J Fredman (0000-0002-2053-8700, Department of Human Development and Family Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
Año2023
Volumen40
Número4
Páginas1103-1125
Fecha de publicación2023-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Social and Personal Relationships (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-4075 • E-ISSN: 1460-3608
EditorialSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/02654075221105611
PMID37426834
OpenAlexW4283378250
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas49

Financial well-being may be an important context for daily emotional reactivity to relationship tension (e.g., arguments) whose salience varies across historical time or as a function of exposure to economic downturns. This study investigated how emotional reactivity, operationalized as daily fluctuations in negative and positive affect associated with the occurrence of daily relationship tension, varied by financial well-being among those who were and were not exposed to the Great Recession of 2008. Two matched, independent subsamples of partnered individuals from the National Study of Daily Experiences completed identical 8-day diary protocols, one before the Great Recession ( n = 587) and one after ( n = 351). Individuals reported higher negative affect and lower positive affect on days when relationship tension occurred. Further, results indicated that negative affect reactivity, but not positive affect reactivity, was moderated by both financial well-being and cohort status. For the pre-recession cohort, negative affect reactivity was stronger among those with lower financial well-being. However, among the post-recession cohort, financial well-being did not moderate negative affect reactivity to relationship tension. Findings highlight the utility of considering major societal events, such as economic downturns, to understand variability in emotional reactivity to day-to-day relationship tension in the context of financial well-being, as the salience of financial well-being in the ways relationship tension and negative affect are related on a daily basis appears to vary by historical context

Economics · Macroeconomics · Recession · Well-being · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving · Medicine · Psychology