{"title":"A Communal Coping Intervention for Couples Managing Chronic Illness: Proof-of-Concept Study.","authors":"Melissa Zajdel, Vicki S Helgeson","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000234","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cfp0000234","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Introduction: </strong>Communal coping is an interpersonal coping strategy defined as the appraisal of a problem as shared and collaboration to manage it. Despite evidence establishing links of communal coping to health, few interventions have involved communal coping. This study seeks to establish proof of concept that an intervention rooted in communal coping theory can impact couple members' communal coping and intermediary outcomes.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Couples (<i>n</i> = 40) in which one person has type 2 diabetes were randomly assigned to intervention versus control in a parallel randomized trial with 1:1 allocation. The intervention consisted of a single session focused on discussion of shared stressors, communal coping education, and collaborative implementation intentions followed by 7 days of text message reinforcement. Couples were interviewed in-person, received the intervention or active control, and completed 7 daily questionnaires. Communal coping and intermediary outcomes associated with communal coping were assessed daily. Feasibility and acceptability were also assessed.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>The intervention increased reports of both patient and partner shared appraisal and collaboration and impacted some intermediary outcomes of communal coping. Compared to control, intervention participants reported greater perceived partner responsiveness, patient support receipt, and partner confidence in patient illness self-efficacy.</p><p><strong>Discussion: </strong>This study provides initial proof of concept that an intervention based on communal coping theory can increase couples' communal coping-both shared appraisal and collaboration. Additionally, the intervention was able to impact some intermediary outcomes that may be linked to downstream health outcomes for both patients and partners.</p>","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11361721/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86380137","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Five-Factor Model Personality Traits in a Web-Based Relationship Improvement Program.","authors":"Judith N Biesen, McKenzie K Roddy, Brian D Doss","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000221","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cfp0000221","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite an established link between personality traits and relationship outcomes, few studies have examined whether personality impacts outcomes of couple interventions. Given the growing popularity of online relationship services, we examined whether Five-Factor Model personality traits moderated change in relationship satisfaction, relationship confidence, and depressive symptoms of couples completing the web-based OurRelationship program. Three-hundred couples were randomly assigned to the program or to a waitlist control group and were repeatedly assessed using self-report measures of relationship satisfaction, relationship confidence, and depressive symptoms. Overall, results suggested that Five-Factor Model personality traits are mostly unrelated to changes in individual and interpersonal well-being. However, across conditions, higher levels of neuroticism predicted a smaller decrease in depressive symptoms (Aim 1). In addition, the effects of the intervention (versus control) on change in relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms were moderated by neuroticism, such that high levels of neuroticism predicted stronger intervention effects on relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms (Aim 2). Lastly, the effects of conscientiousness and neuroticism on changes in depressive symptoms were partially mediated by baseline levels of depressive symptoms. These findings suggest that the OurRelationship program may already contain elements that address behaviors associated with high or low personality trait levels and that higher levels of neuroticism may actually augment intervention effects on relationship satisfaction and depressive symptoms. Given the inconsistency of our findings across the various outcomes as well as personality, further research is needed to determine the role of personality in web-based couple interventions.</p>","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11361723/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85002584","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shelby B. Scott, Kayla Knopp, Quyen A. Do, Kimberly F. Balsam
{"title":"Longitudinal predictors of relationship dissolution in female same-gender and queer couples: A 7-year follow-up study.","authors":"Shelby B. Scott, Kayla Knopp, Quyen A. Do, Kimberly F. Balsam","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000251","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135972794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Brianne Freeman, Emily Georgia Salivar, Kayla K. Thayer
{"title":"The impact of the military lifestyle on adult military children relationships.","authors":"Brianne Freeman, Emily Georgia Salivar, Kayla K. Thayer","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000252","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135972769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sarah T. Giff, Jenna Teves, Karen Petty, Jessica Kansky, Julian Libet
{"title":"Relationship satisfaction of veterans and partners seeking couples therapy: Associations with posttraumatic stress, accommodation, and depression.","authors":"Sarah T. Giff, Jenna Teves, Karen Petty, Jessica Kansky, Julian Libet","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000250","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136104084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
David Hoskins, Jocelyn Iveth Meza, Margareth Vanessa Del Cid, Kathleen Kemp, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Margaret Webb, Marina Tolou-Shams
{"title":"Impact of Family, Neighborhood, and Schools on Behavioral Health Needs of Justice-Involved Latinx Adolescents.","authors":"David Hoskins, Jocelyn Iveth Meza, Margareth Vanessa Del Cid, Kathleen Kemp, Daphne Koinis-Mitchell, Margaret Webb, Marina Tolou-Shams","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000204","DOIUrl":"10.1037/cfp0000204","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Latinx adolescents are overrepresented in the justice system and have high untreated behavioral health needs. We examined the family as well as promotive and inhibitive environments (i.e., neighborhood and school) and their associations on behavioral health among 181 first-time justice-involved Latinx adolescents. Results showed that more optimal caregiver-adolescent attachment was associated with fewer behavioral health needs; more negative caregiver-adolescent communication with greater behavioral health needs. Increased neighborhood disadvantage and negative school interactions served as inhibitive environments and were associated with greater behavioral health needs. Moderation analyses indicated that negative communication was associated with greater behavioral health needs among dyads with large acculturation differences but not for dyads close in acculturation. Findings underscore the need to assess the family relationships and communication, promotive/inhibitive environments, and acculturation differences when determining how to meet behavioral health needs among justice-involved Latinx adolescents.</p>","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10499485/pdf/nihms-1814464.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10316246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Olga Smoliak, Brody Dechamplain, R. Elliott, Carla Rice, Amanda LeCouteur, E. Tseliou, Adam Davies
{"title":"Partner empathy in couple therapy: A discovery-phase task analytic study.","authors":"Olga Smoliak, Brody Dechamplain, R. Elliott, Carla Rice, Amanda LeCouteur, E. Tseliou, Adam Davies","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000244","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000244","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73780850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Whitton, Sabrina J. Bothwell, Shariell Crosby, M. Newcomb
{"title":"Sexual and gender minority individuals’ perspectives on how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected their couple relationships.","authors":"S. Whitton, Sabrina J. Bothwell, Shariell Crosby, M. Newcomb","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000246","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000246","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85170979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emotion expressivity and regulation in romantic relationships: The role of social anxiety.","authors":"Kaitlyn Schodt, K. Mickelson","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000249","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000249","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82318264","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathways to intimacy: The direct and indirect effects of cognitive flexibility and emotion dysregulation.","authors":"Laura B. Kenneally, Alicia L Milam, J. Paulson","doi":"10.1037/cfp0000247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1037/cfp0000247","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45636,"journal":{"name":"Couple and Family Psychology-Research and Practice","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2023-06-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84651660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}