Intercultural romantic relationships have increased worldwide. Yet, there is a lack of empirical knowledge about intercultural couples. The studies that do suggest that intercultural couples have higher rates of conflict and long‐term instability, but most studies have measured intercultural couples using categorical responses of race/ethnicity, which limits theoretical insight to the interpersonal characteristics that make up high‐quality intimate relationships. This review integrates findings from several research fields into a new model, called the culturally based romantic relationship (CBR²) model, to understand how similarities/differences in within‐person emotional processes and relationship norms relate to between‐person emotional functioning, and in turn relationship quality. Theoretical models of this nature are essential because they can impact therapy and counseling programs developed for diverse groups of people, but also advance research fields that are related to culture, emotions, and interpersonal relationships.

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理解跨文化浪漫情侣关系功能的理论模型

跨文化的浪漫关系在全世界范围内都在增加。然而，缺乏关于跨文化夫妻的经验知识。确实有研究表明，跨文化夫妇的冲突和长期不稳定的发生率更高，但是大多数研究使用种族/民族的分类反应来衡量跨文化夫妇，这将理论洞察力限制在构成高质量亲密关系的人际关系特征上。这篇评论将来自几个研究领域的发现整合到一个新模型中，该模型称为基于文化的浪漫关系（CBR ²）模型，以了解人际情感过程和关系规范中的相似性/差异与人际情感功能之间的关系，进而与人际关系质量之间的关系。这种性质的理论模型至关重要，因为它们可以影响为不同人群开发的治疗和咨询计划，还可以促进与文化，情感和人际关系相关的研究领域。