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Acknowledging the Elephant in the Room: How Stressful Environmental Contexts Shape Relationship Dynamics by Neff, Lisa A, Karney, Benjamin R

“…Compared to affluent marriages, lower income marriages develop within a context filled with negative stressors that may prove quite toxic for marital…”
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Experiencing a Natural Disaster Temporarily Boosts Relationship Satisfaction in Newlywed Couples by Williamson, Hannah C., Bradbury, Thomas N., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…How do natural disasters affect intimate relationships? Some research suggests that couples are brought closer together after a disaster, whereas other…”
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Socioeconomic Status and Intimate Relationships by Karney, Benjamin R

“…The ways that couples form and manage their intimate relationships at higher and lower levels of socioeconomic status (SES) have been diverging steadily over…”
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The Salience and Severity of Relationship Problems Among Low-Income Couples by Jackson, Grace L., Trail, Thomas E., Kennedy, David P., Williamson, Hannah C., Bradbury, Thomas N., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…Developing programs to support low-income married couples requires an accurate understanding of the challenges they face. To address this question, we assessed…”
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Three tests of the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation Model: Independent prediction, mediation, and generalizability by Ross, Jaclyn M., Nguyen, Teresa P., Karney, Benjamin R., Bradbury, Thomas N.

“…Objective Efforts to understand why some marriages thrive while others falter are (a) not well integrated conceptually and (b) rely heavily on data collected…”
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Longitudinal Effects of Increases and Decreases in Intimate Partner Aggression by Hammett, Julia F, Karney, Benjamin R, Bradbury, Thomas N

“…Interventions aimed at reducing interpartner aggression assume that within-couple declines in aggression enhance individual and relational outcomes, yet…”
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How Does Context Affect Intimate Relationships? Linking External Stress and Cognitive Processes within Marriage by Neff, Lisa A., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…Stressors external to the marriage frequently affect the way spouses evaluate their marital quality. To date, however,understanding of the interplay between…”
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Research on Marital Satisfaction and Stability in the 2010s: Challenging Conventional Wisdom by Karney, Benjamin R., Bradbury, Thomas N.

“…Although getting married is no longer a requirement for social acceptance, most people do marry in their lifetimes, and couples across the socioeconomic…”
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Relationship Risks in Context: A Cumulative Risk Approach to Understanding Relationship Satisfaction by Rauer, Amy J., Karney, Benjamin R., Garvan, Cynthia W., Hou, Wei

“…Risks associated with less satisfying intimate relationships often co-occur within individuals, raising questions about approaches that consider only their…”
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Social Support and Weight Maintenance in Marriage: The Interactive Effects of Support Seeking, Support Provision, and Gender by Meltzer, Andrea L., McNulty, James K., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…Spouses tend to gain weight over the early years of marriage. Given that maintaining a healthy weight is a common goal among newlyweds, and given the…”
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Does Couples' Communication Predict Marital Satisfaction, or Does Marital Satisfaction Predict Communication? by Lavner, Justin A., Karney, Benjamin R., Bradbury, Thomas N.

“…The quality of communication between spouses is widely assumed to affect their subsequent judgments of relationship satisfaction, yet this assumption is rarely…”
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Neuroticism, Marital Interaction, and the Trajectory of Marital Satisfaction by Karney, Benjamin R, Bradbury, Thomas N

“…Theories of how initially satisfied marriages deteriorate or remain stable over time have been limited by a failure to distinguish between key facets of…”
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How both partners’ individual differences, stress, and behavior predict change in relationship satisfaction: Extending the VSA model by McNulty, James K., Meltzer, Andrea L., Neff, Lisa A., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…We pooled data from 10 longitudinal studies of 1,104 married couples to test the Vulnerability-Stress-Adaptation (VSA) model of change in relationship…”
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Communication That Is Maladaptive for Middle-Class Couples Is Adaptive for Socioeconomically Disadvantaged Couples by Ross, Jaclyn M., Karney, Benjamin R., Nguyen, Teresa P., Bradbury, Thomas N.

“…Demands for change in a relationship, particularly when met by behavioral withdrawal, foreshadow declines in relationship satisfaction. Yet demands can give…”
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Stress and Reactivity to Daily Relationship Experiences: How Stress Hinders Adaptive Processes in Marriage by Neff, Lisa A, Karney, Benjamin R

“…Maintaining a relationship requires that intimates successfully navigate the ups and downs of their daily experiences with their partners. Intimates whose…”
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Barriers and Facilitators of Relationship Help-Seeking Among Low-Income Couples by Williamson, Hannah C, Karney, Benjamin R, Bradbury, Thomas N

“…Despite being at elevated risk for relationship distress and dissolution, couples living with low incomes are less likely than their middle-class counterparts…”
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Sex Differences in the Implications of Partner Physical Attractiveness for the Trajectory of Marital Satisfaction by Meltzer, Andrea L, McNulty, James K, Jackson, Grace L, Karney, Benjamin R

“…Do men value physical attractiveness in a mate more than women? Scientists in numerous disciplines believe that they do, but recent research using speed-dating…”
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When Poor Communication Does and Does Not Matter: The Moderating Role of Stress by Nguyen, Teresa P, Karney, Benjamin R, Bradbury, Thomas N

“…Although a number of theoretical perspectives in relationship science argue that variability in couples' relationship satisfaction over time is driven by…”
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What's (Not) Wrong With Low-Income Marriages by Trail, Thomas E., Karney, Benjamin R.

“…In the United States, low marriage rates and high divorce rates among the poor have led policymakers to target this group for skills and values-based…”
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Financial Strain and Stressful Events Predict Newlyweds' Negative Communication Independent of Relationship Satisfaction by Williamson, Hannah C, Karney, Benjamin R, Bradbury, Thomas N

“…Social-learning perspectives explicitly recognize the role of partners' personal histories and contexts as possible causes of couple communication behavior,…”
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