ArticleAnnual review of developmental psychology2023
Emotion Regulation in Couples Across Adulthood.
Article in Annual review of developmental psychology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- The impact of home care interventions on postpartum depression symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2026Pooled it
- Addressing depression, stress, and hopelessness through an economic and relationship-strengthening intervention: Findings from a pilot randomized controlled trial among people with HIV in Malawi.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Trial
- The role of situational factors in momentary emotion regulation tactic and acceptance use in adulthood and older age.Psychology and aging · 2026Article
- Emotion Regulation and Relationship Satisfaction in Couple Therapy: What Happens Across Sessions?Family process · 2026Article
- Disrupted physiological coregulation in youth at clinical high risk for psychosis: Insights from a dyadic interaction study.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Clues from dyadic interactions in early childhood predict psychotic-like experiences at the transition to adolescence in a sample enriched for psychopathology risk.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2025Article
- Subjective emotional experiences in clinical high-risk youth: Insights from a dyadic interaction paradigm.Schizophrenia research · 2025Article
- A New Frame on Emotion Regulation in Aging: The Adaptive Positive Tactic Shift.Current directions in psychological science · 2025Article
- Are we doing good? Perceived emotion regulation success and relationship quality in couples.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Disrupted coherence between autonomic activation and emotional expression in individuals at clinical high risk for psychosis.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
Abstract
Intimate relationships are hotbeds of emotion. This article presents key findings and current directions in research on couples' emotion regulation across adulthood as a critical context in which older adults not only maintain functioning but may also outshine younger adults. First, I introduce key concepts, defining qualities (i.e., dynamic, coregulatory, bidirectional, bivalent), and measures (i.e., self-report versus performance-based) of couples' emotion regulation. Second, I highlight a socioemotional turn in our understanding of adult development with the advent of socioemotional selectivity theory. Third, I offer a life-span developmental perspective on emotion regulation in couples (i.e., across infancy, adolescence and young adulthood, midlife, and late life). Finally, I present the idea that emotion regulation may shift from "me to us" across adulthood and discuss how emotion regulation in couples may become more important, better, and increasingly consequential (e.g., for relationship outcomes, well-being, and health) with age. Ideas for future research are then discussed.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.