TY - JOUR
T1 - Deleterious Effects of Stress on Time Spent Together and Parents' Relationship Satisfaction
AU - Milek, Anne
AU - Randall, Ashley
AU - Nussbeck, Fridtjof W.
AU - Breitenstein, Christina J.
AU - Bodenmann, Guy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2017/7/3
Y1 - 2017/7/3
N2 - Data from 90 German committed heterosexual couples who had a least one child were used to examine the associations between chronic minor external stress, quantity and quality of time spent together as a couple, and partners' relationship satisfaction. Using an extended version of the Actor Partner Interdependence Model, the authors found significant negative indirect effects from mothers' chronic minor external stress via quality, but not quantity, of shared time to both parents' reported relationship satisfaction. Mothers' chronic minor external stress was associated with fewer reported quality time activities, which were also associated with lower reports of relationship satisfaction for both mothers and fathers. The authors did not find indirect effects for fathers' chronic minor external stress. Overall, the frequency of quality time activities may be more important for mothers, as it explained 25% of variance in their relationship satisfaction, compared with 15% in fathers' relationship satisfaction. Implications for relationship researchers and clinicians are discussed.
AB - Data from 90 German committed heterosexual couples who had a least one child were used to examine the associations between chronic minor external stress, quantity and quality of time spent together as a couple, and partners' relationship satisfaction. Using an extended version of the Actor Partner Interdependence Model, the authors found significant negative indirect effects from mothers' chronic minor external stress via quality, but not quantity, of shared time to both parents' reported relationship satisfaction. Mothers' chronic minor external stress was associated with fewer reported quality time activities, which were also associated with lower reports of relationship satisfaction for both mothers and fathers. The authors did not find indirect effects for fathers' chronic minor external stress. Overall, the frequency of quality time activities may be more important for mothers, as it explained 25% of variance in their relationship satisfaction, compared with 15% in fathers' relationship satisfaction. Implications for relationship researchers and clinicians are discussed.
KW - Dyadic data analysis
KW - marital satisfaction
KW - parenthood
KW - relationship maintenance
KW - stress
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U2 - 10.1080/15332691.2016.1238799
DO - 10.1080/15332691.2016.1238799
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84994831667
SN - 1533-2691
VL - 16
SP - 210
EP - 231
JO - Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
JF - Journal of Couple and Relationship Therapy
IS - 3
ER -