ReviewCurrent opinion in psychology2022
Implications of social isolation, separation, and loss during the COVID-19 pandemic for couples' relationships.
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- Effectiveness of digital interventions on relationship satisfaction among couples: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- Secondary benefits of a brief couples intervention on coparenting through relationship quality and partner conflict.Infant mental health journal · 2025Trial
- Depression Symptoms and Trauma Coping Self-Efficacy: A Longitudinal Examination of Couples During COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of marital and family therapy · 2026Article
- Living with a spouse or partner, material hardship, and mental distress among men and women during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Post-pandemic mental health: Understanding the global psychological burden and charting future research priorities.World journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- How the Covid-19 pandemic affected relationships, connectedness, and suicidality among asexual spectrum adults.Journal of injury & violence research · 2025Article
- Parental relationship satisfaction, symptoms of depression and anger/hostility, and the moderating role of perceived social support-a prospective cohort study in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- In-hospital mortality predictors among COVID-19 patients in the West Bank, Palestine: a multi-center retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Article
- Development of a machine learning-based risk assessment model for loneliness among elderly Chinese: a cross-sectional study based on Chinese longitudinal healthy longevity survey.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- Can Loneliness be Predicted? Development of a Risk Prediction Model for Loneliness among Elderly Chinese: A Study Based on CLHLS.Research square · 2024Article
- Analysis of losses in physiotherapy students during the COVID-19 pandemic: a phenomenological approach.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Predicting the Trajectories of Parents' Relationship Well-Being During COVID-19 Lockdowns and Beyond: a Vulnerability, Stress and Adaptation Model Perspective.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2024Article
- Patterns and correlates of two-year changes in depressive symptoms for autistic adults.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- 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
- Differences in the Long-term Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Mental Health and Professional Quality of Life of Resident and Specialist Physicians.La Medicina del lavoro · 2023Review
- Relationship and Sexual Quality in the Wake of COVID-19: Effects of Individual Regulatory Focus and Shared Concerns over the Pandemic.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2023Article
- Psychological Factors Explaining the COVID-19 Pandemic Impact on Mental Health: The Role of Meaning, Beliefs, and Perceptions of Vulnerability and Mortality.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Prepandemic relationship satisfaction is related to postpandemic COVID-19 anxiety: A four-wave study in China.Journal of social and personal relationships · 2023Article
- Impact of COVID-19 on Rocky Vista University medical students' mental health: A cross-sectional survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- The role of sexting in couple wellbeing for Italian women during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The broad isolation, separation, and loss resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic raise risks for couples' relationship quality and stability. Guided by the vulnerability-stress-adaptation model, we suggest that how pandemic-related loss, isolation, and separation impact couples' relationships will vary depending on the amount and severity of pandemic-related stress, together with enduring personal vulnerabilities (e.g. attachment insecurity), both of which can disrupt adaptive dyadic responses to these challenges. A review of emerging research examining relationship functioning before and during the initial stages of the pandemic offers support for this framework. We draw on additional research to suggest pathways for mitigating relationship disruptions and promoting resilience.
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