ReviewAnnual review of psychology2021
Socioeconomic Status and Intimate Relationships.
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65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- A Cross-Temporal Meta-Analysis on Marital Satisfaction of Chinese Couples.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of Cognitive Behavioral Couple Therapy With Integrated Mindfulness on Mindful Attention, Depressive Symptoms, and Dyadic Adjustment in Low-Income Couples: A Pilot Randomized Clinical Trial.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Trial
- Fast Track intervention effects on family formation.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2023Trial
- Speaking the Public's Love Language: How Engaging with Lay Theories Can Build a Rigorous and Resonant Science of Relationships.Personality and social psychology review : an official journal of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Inc · 2026Review
- Racial Disparities and Comorbidities: Network Analysis of Maternal Outcomes in Alabama.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- Age Disparity in Couples Seeking First Medical Help for Infertility Has Changed Over the Last Twenty Years: A Socio-Demographic Analysis.The world journal of men's health · 2026Article
- Intersecting Social Identities and Health in Arthritis: A Latent Class Analysis of the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.ACR open rheumatology · 2026Article
- Association Between Socioeconomic Status and the Prevalence of Metabolic Diseases: A Nationwide Cross-Sectional Study in China.Journal of diabetes · 2026Article
- Associations between life course socioeconomic circumstances and drinking patterns among young and early midlife Finnish public sector employees.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2026Article
- Consent in the dark: Can living kidney donation proceed amid marital infidelity?Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026Article
- Stress and anxiety negatively associated with relationship satisfaction and family functioning among low-income overweight or obese pregnant and postpartum women.PLOS mental health · 2026Article
- Approaches to ketamine-assisted couple therapy.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Depression among married individuals: new evidence in Türkiye.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Stress and loneliness in marriage: does loneliness moderate the effects of daily stress on marital satisfaction?Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- A qualitative study on expectant and new parents' perceptions of Interplay, a digital support tool for parents' couple relationship and parenting.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2025Article
- Income and education show distinct links to health and happiness in daily life.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Intergenerational occupational mobility and health in the United States.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2025Article
- Socioeconomic disparities: a more important risk factor for advanced-stage oral cancer in Florida than smoking?Cancer causes & control : CCC · 2025Article
- Social relationships and end-of-life quality among older adults in the United States: the impacts of marital, kinship, and network ties.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2025Article
- Spouses' Individual and Shared Cumulative Risk: Implications for Functional Health and Longevity in Older Adulthood.American journal of preventive medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over the past several decades. At higher SES levels, couples postpone marriage and childbirth to invest in education and careers, but they eventually marry at high rates and have relatively low risk for divorce. At lower SES levels, couples are more likely to cohabit and give birth prior to marriage and less likely to marry at all. This review examines how SES comes to be associated with the formation, development, and dissolution of intimate relationships. Overall, research has highlighted how a couple's socioeconomic context facilitates some choices and constrains others, resulting in different capacities for relationship maintenance and different adaptive mating strategies for more and less advantaged couples. A generalizable relationship science requires research that acknowledges these differences and one that recruits, describes, and attends to socioeconomic diversity across couples.
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