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) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).

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应用关系科学来评估 COVID-19 大流行如何影响夫妻关系。

冠状病毒 19 (COVID-19) 大流行深刻地改变了人们的日常生活，并带来了多重社会挑战。这种独特压力源的一个重要挑战是维持运作良好的亲密关系，这与情绪和身体健康密不可分。然而，对浪漫关系的研究表明，经济困难、要求高的工作和灾难等外部压力因素会威胁到夫妻关系的质量和稳定性。关系科学领域的研究调查了外部压力源和现有脆弱性如何影响夫妻功能，可以预测当前的流行病将如何影响夫妻关系，以及哪些夫妻在哪些情况下最容易产生不利的关系后果。借鉴关系科学的理论和研究，提出的概念框架改编自脆弱性-压力-适应模型（Karney & Bradbury，1995），表明面对 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, 反应迟钝的支持), 这将破坏夫妻的关系质量。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、少数群体地位、年龄）以及他们的个人脆弱性（例如，依恋不安全感、抑郁症）而加剧。提出的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关键方向。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2020 APA，保留所有权利）。