M A Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 15688 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M A Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | M A |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Arizona |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2652-6030 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 53 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Learning from Bitter Memories: Frequency and Resolution of Interparental Financial Conflicts, Financial Beliefs and Behaviors, and Well-Being among Hong Kong Young Adults
Drawing from family systems theory and family financial socialization theory, we examined associations among interparental financial conflicts (IPFC), financial beliefs and behaviors, and well-being for 312 Hong Kong young adults (aged 18–30 years old). The sample was relatively diverse in age, income level, and education level; the data were collected in March and April of 2022. IPFC consisted of frequency and three types of resolution strategie…
Benefits and burdens of daily sacrifices and commitment in same‐ and different‐gender couples: Explorations of proximity and direction of effects
Research and theory document links between sacrifices and commitment in couples, yet the direction of effects remains unclear. Whereas interdependence theorists suggest that sacrifices help couples to build commitment, other scholars have suggested that being committed leads partners to sacrifice for each other. Nearly all research in this area has focused on men and women in different‐gender relationships with each other. We contribute to this l…
Pathways linking depressive symptoms, financial stress, constructive conflict, and coparenting alliance in primarily unmarried, low-income mothers and fathers
Following an adapted vulnerability stress adaptation (VSA) model, we used the Building Strong Families (BSF) project data to examine how mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms and financial stress relate to adaptive processes, namely, constructive conflict and coparenting alliance. The sample consisted of racially diverse, low-income parents who were unmarried at the conception of their child ( N = 3,027 couples). All study variables were meas…
Nine Versions of the Parent Financial Socialization Scale: Full, Short, and Minimal Versions for Emerging Adults, Adolescents, and Parents
Before their very eyes: Enhancing the (pre)literacy skills of deaf children
The challenge of supporting literacy among deaf children is as much linguistic as educational, since a major stumbling block can be the lack of a firm first language foundation. It is critical to meet this challenge, given the range of serious negative correlates to illiteracy. Students on the campuses of Gallaudet University and Swarthmore College collaborate to address this issue in an inter-institutional course in which we make bimodal-bilingu…
Before their very eyes: Enhancing the (pre)literacy skills of deaf children: Supplementary material
the university for the deaf.Swarthmore College has approximately 1700 students.They self-identify as 32% white, 18% Asian, 14% Latinx, 10% mixed race, 9% African American or Black, 0.3% American Indian or Alaska Native, and 0.1% Pacific Islander (including Hawaii).16% are International students, 33% come from the Middle Atlantic states of the USA, and the rest come from all around the USA.95% of the students live on campus.51% of the students rec…
Couple-Level Attachment Styles, Finances, and Marital Satisfaction: Mediational Analyses Among Young Adult Newlywed Couples
Talk is cheap: Parent financial socialization and emerging adult financial well‐being
Awareness and equity of behavioral sacrifice and same‐sex relationship quality: Heterosexist discrimination as a distal predictor
A systematic review of relationship sacrifices from 2002 to 2021: Moving toward inclusivity
We conducted a systematic review of research on relational sacrifices in romantic relationships from 2002 to 2021 [ N = 115 studies] to answer three questions: Q1: Whose voices and vantage points are represented in the research?; Q2: What types of questions are valued?; Q3: What are the reflections and connections about relational sacrifices that were learned during the review? To address Q1, we coded sample demographics of study participants on …
Heterosexist discrimination and relational sacrifice of same‐sex couples
Drawing on the family stress process model and using data from 141 same‐sex couples ( N = 282 partners), we examined associations between heterosexist discrimination and relational sacrifices (i.e., willingness and behaviors). We also examined the moderating roles of both partners' internalized homophobia and state‐level liberalism on same‐sex marriage legalization. Actor‐partner interdependence moderation models were conducted. Most of our findi…
From Piggy Banks to Significant Others: Associations Between Financial Socialization and Romantic Relationship Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
While a plethora of research has found that parent financial socialization during childhood and adolescence is linked with financial outcomes in emerging adulthood, recent literature suggests that financial socialization may also impact romantic relationship outcomes in emerging adulthood. Utilizing a sample of 1,950 U.S. emerging adults, we test whether retrospectively recalled parent financial socialization is associated with romantic relations…
In memoriam of Emily Butler, 1963–2023
Emily Butler, a psychologist and Professor of Family Studies and Human Development (FSHD) at the University of Arizona, passed away on January 31, 2023. Dr. Butler was born on October 3, 1963 in Wi
The ABC-X’s of Stress among U.S. Emerging Adults during the Covid-19 Pandemic: Relationship Quality, Financial Distress, and Mental Health
Many emerging adults have experienced increased financial distress and mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic, and isolation may have amplified the importance of close relationships (especially as parents' influence diminishes during this developmental stage). Using the ABC-X Model to frame our model, we tested whether financial distress (C) mediates the associations between COVID-19 impact (A) and anxiety and depressive symptoms (X)…
Less Than Fully Honest: Financial Deception in Emerging Adult Romantic Relationships
Emerging adults lack many basic financial capabilities. To avoid conflict that may come from these deficiencies, some emerging adults may financially deceive their romantic partner. However, little is known about financial deception in emerging adult romantic relationships. Through the lenses of two theoretical frameworks, we test whether financial deception intervenes the associations of couple financial communication, financial socialization, a…
Financial behaviors, financial satisfaction, and goal attainment among college-educated young adults: A mediating analysis with latent change scores
The aim of the study is to investigate how 2,084 U.S. college-educated young adults (61.9% female, and 69.5% non-Hispanic White) navigated the goal attainment process during the transition to adulthood. Using four-wave data collected across eight years, we examined how financial behaviors (self-regulating behaviors) predicted both depressive symptoms (affective goal attainment evaluations) and financial obstacles to goal attainment (cognitive goa…
Tripartite Commitment and Relationship Quality: A Person-Centered Approach
We examined the relations between tripartite commitment—personal (want to stay in relationship), moral (ought to stay in relationship; internal constraints) and structural (have to stay in relationship; external constraints)—and various constructs of relationship quality (i.e., conflict, ambivalence, maintenance, and satisfaction) in a sample of 717 individuals in predominately heterosexual relationships. Using latent profile analysis (LPA), resu…
Sexual Minority Stressors and Intimate Partner Violence Among Same-Sex Couples: Commitment as a Resource
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels
Drawing from the stress resistance process within the conservation of resources theory, this study examined how resources at multiple ecological levels-personal (self-esteem), relational (spousal support), and social network (relationships with parents and parents-in-law)-moderate the spillover and crossover effects from external stressors to trajectories of marital quality. We used three-annual-wave, dyadic data from 268 heterosexual Chinese cou…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Couples, Families, and Finance
Pathways Linking Parental Relationship Changes, Depressive Symptoms, and Parenting Behaviors to Young Children's Development
Objective The current study examined how parental relationship changes were linked to observed parenting behaviors, parental depressive symptoms, and 3‐year‐old children's social–emotional development. Background Parental relationship changes may present risks to young children's well‐being. The specific processes linking these changes to child development, however, remain unclear because these changes are often confounded with other family risks…
Heteronormativity in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young People
Heteronormativity, as defined in queer theory, is the presumption and privileging of heterosexuality. Research on how young people make sense of and narrate heteronormativity in their own lives is needed to inform theories of heteronormativity. Using queer and intersectional frameworks, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 sexual and gender minority young people (ages 18 to 24), analyzed using thematic analysis, to examine how young ad…
Cultural Similarities and Differences in Relationship Goals in Intercultural Romantic Couples
Intercultural romantic relationships and multicultural families have increased in the United States and worldwide. Researchers have found that intercultural couples report high rates of conflict and relationship instability, which may be partly explained by differences between partners in relationship goals (e.g., how much intimacy is desired and how to approach conflict). Using data from 40 intercultural couples (N = 80), we test whether greater…
Romantic Attachment Orientations, Financial Behaviors, and Life Outcomes Among Young Adults: A Mediating Analysis of a College Cohort
Financial Stressors as Catalysts for Relational Growth: Bonadaptation Among Lower-Income, Unmarried Couples
Differentiating environmental concern in the context of psychological adaption to climate change
Relational sacrifices in romantic relationships: Satisfaction and the moderating role of attachment
Using interdependence and attachment theories, we examined the influence of attachment orientations on the association between relational sacrifices and relationship satisfaction. Romantic partners ( N = 332) completed a one-time measure of attachment orientations and daily measures of relationship satisfaction and number and difficulty of relational sacrifices over 4-10 days. Difficulty of own and partner's sacrifices was negatively associated w…
Heteronormativity in the Lives of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Young People
Heteronormativity, as defined in queer theory, is the presumption and privileging of heterosexuality. Research on how young people make sense of and narrate heteronormativity in their own lives is needed to inform theories of heteronormativity. Using queer and intersectional frameworks, we conducted semi-structured interviews with 14 sexual and gender minority young people (ages 18 to 24), analyzed using thematic analysis, to examine how young ad…
Gender, Emotion Work, and Relationship Quality: A Daily Diary Study
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT ‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the “facts” that LGBT ‐parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories. We attempt to move this conversation by presenting a model of curricular change for teaching family studies theories courses that shifts from LGBT ‐parent exclusion, …
Good days, bad days: Do sacrifices improve relationship quality
We utilized interdependence theory and conservation of resources to understand how relational sacrifices and hassles impact positive relationship quality constructs (i.e., satisfaction, closeness, and commitment) in romantic relationships ( N = 164 couples; 328 individuals). Using daily diary data to examine actor and partner effects, we found that individuals' sacrifices were positively linked with their own commitment but not with satisfaction …
The calm after the storm: Relationship length as associated with couples’ daily variability
We examined whether seven relational constructs (satisfaction, commitment, closeness, conflict, ambivalence, maintenance, and love) showed significant within-person residual variance over time (variability), whether couple members were similar in their variability (covariation), and whether variability and covariation differed by relationship length. We used dyadic daily diary data from 157 couples together from 2 months to 44 years. Each relatio…
A daily diary study: Working to change the relationship and relational uncertainty in understanding positive relationship quality
We collected daily diary data from 165 couples ( N = 330) in romantic relationships to examine how working to change the relationship and relational uncertainty influence positive relationship quality (i.e., closeness, satisfaction, and commitment). We used concepts from the investment model and literature on relationship maintenance and relational uncertainty. As hypothesized, we found a positive association between working to change the relatio…
Traditional Gender Ideology, Work Family Conflict, and Marital Quality among Chinese Dual-Earner Couples: A Moderated Mediation Model
Interpersonal effects of health-related social control: Positive and negative influence, partner health transformations, and relationship quality
It is common for romantic partners to influence one another's health maintenance behaviors. Previous research has examined positively and negatively framed social control messages to understand health behavior outcomes and relational affect; however, this study confirms and extends previous research by studying the associations between health transformations (from interdependence theory, health behaviors enacted for the partner) and relationship …
Volatility in daily relationship quality: The roles of attachment and gender
Previous research on attachment orientations has focused on how attachment is associated with levels of relationship quality; however, the nature of associations with variability over time ( volatility) on relationship quality remains unclear. Couples who are higher in volatility have poorer relationship outcomes, thus it is important to understand factors that influence volatility. We used 7-day daily diaries with both members of 157 heterosexua…
Levels and volatility in daily relationship quality: Roles of daily sacrifice motives
Conflicts are inevitable in romantic relationships. Couples sometimes choose the pro-relationship strategy of relational sacrifice to address such conflicts. Previous research established that examining sacrifice motives (i.e., approach and avoidance) is meaningful in understanding relationship quality. Using interdependence theory and 14 days of diaries with 110 heterosexual couples, we extend previous research by testing how sacrifice motives p…
Cohabitors’ Reasons for Living Together, Satisfaction with Sacrifices, and Relationship Quality
The purpose of our study was to identify both negative and positive associations of cohabitation with relationship quality. Using a sample of 280 cohabitors, we examined how reasons for cohabitation (i.e., spending time together, testing the relationship, and convenience) are associated with relationship quality (i.e., commitment, satisfaction, ambivalence, and conflict) as moderated by satisfaction with sacrifices. Results showed that a higher s…
Marital Commitment and Perceptions of Fairness in Household Chores
We examine how three types of marital commitment-personal, structural, and moral-are associated with perceptions of fairness in chores ( N = 1,839 married couples or 3,678 spouses). Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, we find distinct relationships by type of marital commitment and gender. For personal commitment, both actor and partner effects were positively associated with wives' perceived fairness of chores, with actor effects more…
Spirituality, Sacrifice, and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors
Given negative effects of cohabitation, we examine negative (ambivalence, conflict) and positive (commitment, satisfaction) relationship quality, as explained by perceptions of ease of relational sacrifices and spirituality, for unmarried cohabitors expecting their first child (46 individuals). Controlling for race/ethnicity and education, perceived ease of relational sacrifice was associated with greater satisfaction and lower ambivalence and co…
Cultural Similarities and Differences in Relationship Goals in Intercultural Romantic Couples
Intercultural romantic relationships and multicultural families have increased in the United States and worldwide. Researchers have found that intercultural couples report high rates of conflict and relationship instability, which may be partly explained by differences between partners in relationship goals (e.g., how much intimacy is desired and how to approach conflict). Using data from 40 intercultural couples (N = 80), we test whether greater…
Gender, Sacrifices, and Variability in Commitment: A Daily Diary Study of Pregnant Heterosexual Cohabitors and their Partners
An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Marriage for African Americans
Using specific tenets from symbolic interactionism as a frame, we asked 31 African Americans (18 women and 13 men) including students as well as nonstudents, across a variety of types of relationships and ages, what marriage meant to them. Two major themes, commitment and love, emerged from qualitative content analysis of the meaning of marriage. Other themes, including partnership/friendship, trust, family, and covenant, also emerged as themes, …
Introduction to the special issue: Data analytic issues in relationship research
Associations Between Marital Meaning and Reasons to Delay Marriage for Young Adults in Romantic Relationships
Using symbolic interactionism we developed an open-ended question to examine marital meaning for young adults (N = 111). Themes to emerge were love and commitment. Participants were placed into clusters: contractual (low love, high commitment), optimistic-realistic (high love, high commitment), romanticizing (high love, low commitment), and casual (low love, low commitment). We examined marital meaning and associations with reasons to delay marri…
Representations of Marriage and Expectations of Parenthood: Predictors of Supportive Coparenting for First-Time Parents
SYNOPSIS Objective. We examine how spouses' representations of marriage and expectations about first-time parenthood predict support of the other spouse's parenting in postpartum triadic family interactions. Design. Prenatally, spouses' representations of marriage were assessed based on the content and insightfulness of memories from their parents' marriage, and spouses also rated their expectations about parenthood. At 24 months postpartum, part…
External stressors and trajectories of marital quality during the early years of Chinese marriage: Buffering effects of resources at multiple ecological levels
Drawing from the stress resistance process within the conservation of resources theory, this study examined how resources at multiple ecological levels-personal (self-esteem), relational (spousal support), and social network (relationships with parents and parents-in-law)-moderate the spillover and crossover effects from external stressors to trajectories of marital quality. We used three-annual-wave, dyadic data from 268 heterosexual Chinese cou…
Understanding Child Behavior Problems in Young Children with Previously Incarcerated Fathers: Parents’ Depressive Symptoms, Relationship Quality, and Coparenting
Guided by family systems theory, we focused on families where young children have experienced paternal incarceration (n = 775 families). We examined how characteristics of mothers and fathers at two levels of the family system–individual (i.e., depression) and relational (i.e., support/affection, constructive conflict, destructive conflict, and coparenting)—were associated with internalizing and externalizing child behavior problems in a sample o…
Pathways linking depressive symptoms, financial stress, constructive conflict, and coparenting alliance in primarily unmarried, low-income mothers and fathers
Following an adapted vulnerability stress adaptation (VSA) model, we used the Building Strong Families (BSF) project data to examine how mothers' and fathers' depressive symptoms and financial stress relate to adaptive processes, namely, constructive conflict and coparenting alliance. The sample consisted of racially diverse, low-income parents who were unmarried at the conception of their child ( N = 3,027 couples). All study variables were meas…
From Piggy Banks to Significant Others: Associations Between Financial Socialization and Romantic Relationship Flourishing in Emerging Adulthood
While a plethora of research has found that parent financial socialization during childhood and adolescence is linked with financial outcomes in emerging adulthood, recent literature suggests that financial socialization may also impact romantic relationship outcomes in emerging adulthood. Utilizing a sample of 1,950 U.S. emerging adults, we test whether retrospectively recalled parent financial socialization is associated with romantic relations…
Effects of participation in a longitudinal study of dating
Participation in interviews has the potential to change beliefs about dating relationships. Changes in beliefs should vary as a function of how much participants think and talk about their relationships. Participants ( N = 464) were randomly selected for an interview study from households in a large Southwestern U.S. city. Participation should have positive effects on beliefs when thinking or talking is high and negative effects when thinking or …
Representations of Marriage and Expectations of Parenthood: Predictors of Supportive Coparenting for First-Time Parents
SYNOPSIS Objective. We examine how spouses' representations of marriage and expectations about first-time parenthood predict support of the other spouse's parenting in postpartum triadic family interactions. Design. Prenatally, spouses' representations of marriage were assessed based on the content and insightfulness of memories from their parents' marriage, and spouses also rated their expectations about parenthood. At 24 months postpartum, part…
An Exploratory Study of the Meaning of Marriage for African Americans
Using specific tenets from symbolic interactionism as a frame, we asked 31 African Americans (18 women and 13 men) including students as well as nonstudents, across a variety of types of relationships and ages, what marriage meant to them. Two major themes, commitment and love, emerged from qualitative content analysis of the meaning of marriage. Other themes, including partnership/friendship, trust, family, and covenant, also emerged as themes, …
Identity Style and Relationship Quality for Pregnant Cohabitating Couples During the Transition to Parenthood
In this study, we tested the association between identity formation and intimacy formation in a diverse sample of pregnant cohabitating couples (N = 127 individuals). Using S. K. Whitbourne's identity process theory, we examined how identity style (balanced, accommodative, assimilative) is associated with various aspects of relationship quality. As hypothesized, a balanced identity style (ability to maintain self-stability while retaining flexibi…
Spirituality, Sacrifice, and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors
Given negative effects of cohabitation, we examine negative (ambivalence, conflict) and positive (commitment, satisfaction) relationship quality, as explained by perceptions of ease of relational sacrifices and spirituality, for unmarried cohabitors expecting their first child (46 individuals). Controlling for race/ethnicity and education, perceived ease of relational sacrifice was associated with greater satisfaction and lower ambivalence and co…
Identity Style During the Transition to Adulthood: The Role of Family Communication Patterns, Perceived Support, and Affect
Young adulthood is a crucial period for identity development and an unclear sense of identity has been associated with deleterious psychological and social outcomes. Using structural equation modeling, this study tested a mediational model that connects family communication patterns (conversation orientation, conformity orientation, conversation × conformity) to identity styles (informational, normative, diffuse-avoidant) to perceptions of social…
Influences of Childhood Abuse on Parenting Perspectives of Pregnant Cohabitors
Associations Between Marital Meaning and Reasons to Delay Marriage for Young Adults in Romantic Relationships
Using symbolic interactionism we developed an open-ended question to examine marital meaning for young adults (N = 111). Themes to emerge were love and commitment. Participants were placed into clusters: contractual (low love, high commitment), optimistic-realistic (high love, high commitment), romanticizing (high love, low commitment), and casual (low love, low commitment). We examined marital meaning and associations with reasons to delay marri…
Relational sacrifices in romantic relationships: Satisfaction and the moderating role of attachment
Using interdependence and attachment theories, we examined the influence of attachment orientations on the association between relational sacrifices and relationship satisfaction. Romantic partners ( N = 332) completed a one-time measure of attachment orientations and daily measures of relationship satisfaction and number and difficulty of relational sacrifices over 4-10 days. Difficulty of own and partner's sacrifices was negatively associated w…
A daily diary study: Working to change the relationship and relational uncertainty in understanding positive relationship quality
We collected daily diary data from 165 couples ( N = 330) in romantic relationships to examine how working to change the relationship and relational uncertainty influence positive relationship quality (i.e., closeness, satisfaction, and commitment). We used concepts from the investment model and literature on relationship maintenance and relational uncertainty. As hypothesized, we found a positive association between working to change the relatio…
Good days, bad days: Do sacrifices improve relationship quality
We utilized interdependence theory and conservation of resources to understand how relational sacrifices and hassles impact positive relationship quality constructs (i.e., satisfaction, closeness, and commitment) in romantic relationships ( N = 164 couples; 328 individuals). Using daily diary data to examine actor and partner effects, we found that individuals' sacrifices were positively linked with their own commitment but not with satisfaction …
Marital Commitment and Perceptions of Fairness in Household Chores
We examine how three types of marital commitment-personal, structural, and moral-are associated with perceptions of fairness in chores ( N = 1,839 married couples or 3,678 spouses). Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model, we find distinct relationships by type of marital commitment and gender. For personal commitment, both actor and partner effects were positively associated with wives' perceived fairness of chores, with actor effects more…
Identity Style and Marriage for Pregnant Cohabitors as They Begin the Transition to Parenthood
The transition to parenthood is a difficult time for almost all individuals, with possibly unique difficulties for pregnant cohabitors given simultaneous challenges of identity, intimacy, and impending parenthood. The authors examined how identity style was associated with aspects of marriage, including attitudes toward marriage and reasons not to marry, for 127 pregnant, unmarried, cohabitors. We were particularly interested in the accommodative…
Cohabitors’ Reasons for Living Together, Satisfaction with Sacrifices, and Relationship Quality
The purpose of our study was to identify both negative and positive associations of cohabitation with relationship quality. Using a sample of 280 cohabitors, we examined how reasons for cohabitation (i.e., spending time together, testing the relationship, and convenience) are associated with relationship quality (i.e., commitment, satisfaction, ambivalence, and conflict) as moderated by satisfaction with sacrifices. Results showed that a higher s…
Gender, Emotion Work, and Relationship Quality: A Daily Diary Study
Queer Theory, Intersectionality, and LGBT ‐Parent Families: Transformative Critical Pedagogy in Family Theory
We discuss how to move the family studies field and the teaching of family theories from covering the “facts” that LGBT ‐parent families exist to a critical conversation that incorporates conceptual tools, language, and theoretical insights from queer and intersectionality theories. We attempt to move this conversation by presenting a model of curricular change for teaching family studies theories courses that shifts from LGBT ‐parent exclusion, …
Gender, Sacrifices, and Variability in Commitment: A Daily Diary Study of Pregnant Heterosexual Cohabitors and their Partners
Relational Sacrifices about Intimate Behavior and Relationship Quality for Expectant Cohabitors
Using interdependence theory, we examined how relational sacrifices specific to intimacy were associated with positive (commitment, satisfaction, love, and maintenance) and negative (ambivalence and conflict) relationship quality among expectant, unmarried cohabitors (n = 69 individuals), because this group may struggle relationally. We examined how often individuals made sacrifices for their partners and their partners’ perceived awareness of th…
Family-Focused Preventive Interventions With Cancer Cosurvivors: A Call to Action
Health promotion and preventive action in the context of public health interventions for highly prevalent, long-term conditions such as cancer are rarely geared toward the family as a whole. Yet family members, as cancer cosurvivors, must manage their own substantial stress and multiple caregiving responsibilities and often constitute a critical nexus between individual patients and clinicians. We drew on 2 examples of cancer cosurvivorship from …
The calm after the storm: Relationship length as associated with couples’ daily variability
We examined whether seven relational constructs (satisfaction, commitment, closeness, conflict, ambivalence, maintenance, and love) showed significant within-person residual variance over time (variability), whether couple members were similar in their variability (covariation), and whether variability and covariation differed by relationship length. We used dyadic daily diary data from 157 couples together from 2 months to 44 years. Each relatio…
Differentiating environmental concern in the context of psychological adaption to climate change
Introduction to the special issue: Data analytic issues in relationship research
Volatility in daily relationship quality: The roles of attachment and gender
Previous research on attachment orientations has focused on how attachment is associated with levels of relationship quality; however, the nature of associations with variability over time ( volatility) on relationship quality remains unclear. Couples who are higher in volatility have poorer relationship outcomes, thus it is important to understand factors that influence volatility. We used 7-day daily diaries with both members of 157 heterosexua…
Interpersonal effects of health-related social control: Positive and negative influence, partner health transformations, and relationship quality
It is common for romantic partners to influence one another's health maintenance behaviors. Previous research has examined positively and negatively framed social control messages to understand health behavior outcomes and relational affect; however, this study confirms and extends previous research by studying the associations between health transformations (from interdependence theory, health behaviors enacted for the partner) and relationship …
Romantic Attachment Orientations, Financial Behaviors, and Life Outcomes Among Young Adults: A Mediating Analysis of a College Cohort
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