ArticleCurrent opinion in psychology2017
Protective Processes Underlying the Links between Marital Quality and Physical Health.
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- Attachment Style, Partner Communication, and Physical Well-Being among Couples Coping with Cancer.Personal Relationships · 2020Article
- Coping and Mental Health Differences among Active Duty Service Members and Their Spouses with High and Low Levels of Marital Warmth.Military psychology : the official journal of the Division of Military Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2020Article
- Perceived Partner Responsiveness, Daily Negative Affect Reactivity, and All-Cause Mortality: A 20-Year Longitudinal Study.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Communal Coping in Couples With Health Problems.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Mismatch in Spouses' Anger-Coping Response Styles and Risk of Early Mortality: A 32-Year Follow-Up Study.Psychosomatic medicine · 2019Article
- Affective processes as mediators of links between close relationships and physical health.Social and personality psychology compass · 2018Article
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Abstract
Although the links between marital quality and physical health are now well established, the psychological processes through which marriage impacts health remain unclear. Additionally, prior research on the links between marriage and health has focused mainly on how negative aspects of relationships (e.g., conflict, hostility) can be damaging to one's physical health. In this article, we describe the strength and strain model of marital quality and health, which provides a roadmap for studying protective factors underlying marriage-health links. We home in one relationship process-partner responsiveness-and one broad class of psychological mechanisms-affective processes-to illustrate core aspects of the model. Our review suggests that future research will profit from a greater integration of theory from the social psychology of close relationships into studies of relationships and health.
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