Conger R D, Rueter M A, Elder G H
Center for Family Research in Rural Mental Health, Iowa State University, USA.
J Pers Soc Psychol. 1999 Jan;76(1):54-71. doi: 10.1037//0022-3514.76.1.54.
Over 400 married couples participated in a 3-year prospective study of economic pressure and marital relations. The research (a) empirically evaluated the family stress model of economic stress influences on marital distress and (b) extended the model to include specific interactional characteristics of spouses hypothesized to protect against economic pressure. Findings provided support for the basic mediational model, which proposes that economic pressure increases risk for emotional distress, which, in turn, increases risk for marital conflict and subsequent marital distress. Regarding resilience to economic stress, high marital support reduced the association between economic pressure and emotional distress. In addition, effective couple problem solving reduced the adverse influence of marital conflict on marital distress. Overall, the findings provided substantial support for the extended family stress model.
400多对已婚夫妇参与了一项为期3年的关于经济压力和婚姻关系的前瞻性研究。该研究（a）从实证角度评估了经济压力影响婚姻困扰的家庭压力模型，（b）扩展了该模型，纳入了假设可抵御经济压力的配偶特定互动特征。研究结果支持了基本的中介模型，该模型提出经济压力会增加情绪困扰的风险，而情绪困扰反过来又会增加婚姻冲突及随后婚姻困扰的风险。关于对经济压力的复原力，高婚姻支持减少了经济压力与情绪困扰之间的关联。此外，有效的夫妻问题解决方式减少了婚姻冲突对婚姻困扰的不利影响。总体而言，研究结果为扩展的家庭压力模型提供了大量支持。
