Trial reportJournal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43)2018
Stress spillover, African Americans' couple and health outcomes, and the stress-buffering effect of family-centered prevention.
Trial report in Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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24 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Financial strain measures and associations with adult health: A systematic literature review.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship intervention moderates the association between substance use and biological aging among Black adults.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2025Trial
- Family-centered prevention buffers the effect of financial strain on parenting interactions, reducing youth conduct problems in African American families.Journal of consulting and clinical psychology · 2021Trial
- Can Interventions that Strengthen Couples' Relationships Confer Additional Benefits for their Health? A Randomized Controlled Trial with African American Couples.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2021Trial
- Can We Uncouple Neighborhood Disadvantage and Delinquent Behaviors? An Experimental Test of Family Resilience Guided by the Social Disorganization Theory of Delinquent Behaviors.Family process · 2020Trial
- Effects of ePREP and OurRelationship on Low-Income Couples' Mental Health and Health Behaviors: a Randomized Controlled Trial.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2020Trial
- Improving Couples' Relationship Functioning Leads to Improved Coparenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial With Rural African American Couples.Behavior therapy · 2019Trial
- Sources of Stress in Relation to Sleep Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings from the National Couples' Health and Time Study.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Relationship enhancement protects against relationship-quality-associated weathering among Black adults in romantic partner relationships.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025Article
- Racial Discrimination and Romantic Relationship Dynamics among Black Americans: A Systematic Review.Journal of family theory & review · 2023Article
- Strengthening couple functioning promotes resilience to COVID-19-related stressors among Black Americans.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Article
- Association between marital satisfaction of female patients with persistent depressive disorder, and their own and husbands' autism spectrum disorder or attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder traits.PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2023Article
- Neighborhood disadvantage is associated with biological aging: Intervention-induced enhancement of couple functioning confers resilience.Family process · 2023Article
- Financial strain and depression in the U.S.: a scoping review.Translational psychiatry · 2023Article
- A Dyadic Analysis Exploring the Mediating Role of Relationship Quality on Discrimination and HIV/STI Risk Among Young Black and Latino Expecting Couples.AIDS and behavior · 2023Article
- Transgenerational Inheritance and Systemic Racism in America.Psychiatric research and clinical practice · 2023Review
- Risk and resilience in couple's adjustment to the COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2022Article
- Intimate Relationships and Coronary Heart Disease: Implications for Risk, Prevention, and Patient Management.Current cardiology reports · 2022Review
- Relationship intervention indirectly buffers financial strain's effect on biological aging among Black adults.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2022Article
- Helping couples achieve relationship success: A decade of progress in couple relationship education research and practice, 2010-2019.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2022Review
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Abstract
This study investigated (a) the stress spillover pathways linking contextual stressors, changes in couple relationship functioning and depressive symptoms, and changes in individuals' physical health, and (b) the stress-buffering effect of participation in an efficacious, family centered prevention program designed to protect couples from the deleterious effects of stressors. The sample consisted of 346 rural African American couples (63% married) who participated in a randomized controlled trial of the Protecting Strong African American Families (ProSAAF) program. Participants were assessed at three time points across 17 months. Results examining stress spillover within the control group indicated that elevated current, but not prior, financial hardship was associated with decreased effective communication, relationship satisfaction, and relationship confidence as well as increased depressive symptoms; current levels of racial discrimination also predicted greater depressive symptoms. Relationship confidence and relationship satisfaction, but not communication or depressive symptoms, in turn predicted declines in self-reported physical health. Results examining stress-buffering effects suggested that participation in ProSAAF protected individuals' relationship confidence from declines associated with elevated financial hardship. In addition, the indirect effect linking financial hardship to declines in physical health through relationship confidence that emerged among participants in the control group was no longer evident for ProSAAF couples. Results highlight the effect of contextual stressors on African Americans' couple and individual well-being and the potential for the ProSAAF program to provide a constructed resilience resource, protecting couple's confidence in their relationship from the negative effects of financial hardship and, consequently, promoting physical health. (PsycINFO Database Record
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