Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
School of Psychology, University of Auckland.
Am Psychol. 2021 Apr;76(3):438-450. doi: 10.1037/amp0000714. Epub 2020 Jul 23.
The coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic has profoundly altered people's daily lives and created multiple societal challenges. One important challenge of this unique stressor is maintaining well-functioning intimate relationships, which are inextricably tied to emotional and physical health. Yet research on romantic relationships shows that external stressors such as economic hardship, demanding jobs, and disasters can threaten the quality and stability of couples' relationships. Research within relationship science investigating how external stressors and existing vulnerabilities shape couple functioning can inform predictions about how the current pandemic will impact couples' relationships and which couples in which contexts may be most at risk for adverse relationship consequences. Drawing on theory and research from relationship science, the presented conceptual framework, adapted from the vulnerability-stress-adaptation model (Karney & Bradbury, 1995), suggests that facing COVID-19-related external stress is likely to increase harmful dyadic processes (e.g., hostility, withdrawal, less responsive support), which will undermine couples' relationship quality. These harmful effects are likely to be exacerbated by the broader preexisting context in which couples' relationships are situated (e.g., social class, minority status, age), and their individual vulnerabilities (e.g., attachment insecurity, depression). The framework presented identifies the essential factors that need to be addressed in order to mitigate the potential adverse effects of the current crisis on relationships, and offers key directions for future research. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
新型冠状病毒肺炎（COVID-19）大流行深刻地改变了人们的日常生活，带来了诸多社会挑战。这一独特压力源带来的重要挑战之一是维持亲密关系的良好运作，而亲密关系与情感和身体健康息息相关。然而，有关浪漫关系的研究表明，经济困难、工作要求高和灾害等外部压力源会威胁到夫妻关系的质量和稳定性。关系科学领域内的研究旨在调查外部压力源和现有脆弱性如何塑造夫妻关系，这些研究可以为预测当前大流行将如何影响夫妻关系以及哪些夫妻在哪些情况下可能面临不利的关系后果提供信息。本概念框架借鉴了关系科学的理论和研究，是对脆弱性-压力-适应模型（Karney & Bradbury, 1995）的改编，该框架表明，夫妻双方共同面对与 COVID-19 相关的外部压力可能会增加有害的二元过程（例如敌意、退缩、支持反应性降低），从而破坏夫妻关系的质量。这些有害影响可能会因夫妻关系所处的更广泛的预先存在的环境（例如社会阶层、少数族裔地位、年龄）以及他们各自的脆弱性（例如依恋不安全感、抑郁）而加剧。本框架确定了需要解决的基本因素，以减轻当前危机对关系的潜在不利影响，并为未来的研究提供了关键方向。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2021 APA，保留所有权利）。
