During the past decade, research on the link between childhood emotional maltreatment and adulthood romantic relationship well-being has been accumulating, but there still lacks a systematic, quantitative evaluation of existing research. This three-level, meta-analysis aimed to fill this gap. Reports were included if they examined the link between early emotional maltreatment and adulthood romantic relationship well-being, presented statistics needed to calculate at least one bivariate effect size, written in English, and published/written before January 1, 2020. We retrieved 201 effect sizes from 23 reports. Early emotional maltreatment (aggregated across forms) was negatively (yet modestly) associated with later romantic relationship well-being (aggregated across dimensions; r = −.143, 95% confidence interval [−.173, −.114], p < .001). This association did not vary as a function of maltreatment form but differed across relationship well-being dimensions, such that the effect was stronger for the negative than for the positive relationship outcomes. We also found that (a) the actor effect was larger than the partner effect, (b) the effect was stronger in studies using Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ) than in studies not using CTQ, (c) whether using established measures of relationship well-being did not alter the effect, (d) the absolute magnitude of effect was negatively associated with methodological rigor of effect, and (e) the effect did not vary as functions of publication type, whether the sample was a college student sample, or union status, and was not related to the mean of union duration. Last, the limitations of existing research, avenues for future inquiries, and implications for practice were noted.

在过去的十年中，关于儿童情感虐待与成年浪漫关系幸福感之间关系的研究不断积累，但对现有研究仍缺乏系统、定量的评价。这个三层次的荟萃分析旨在填补这一空白。如果报告检查了早期情感虐待与成年浪漫关系幸福感之间的联系，提供了计算至少一个双变量效应大小所需的统计数据，用英文写成，并且在 2020 年 1 月 1 日之前发表/撰写，则纳入报告。我们检索了 201 效应大小来自 23 份报告。早期的情感虐待（跨形式汇总）与后来的浪漫关系幸福（跨维度汇总）呈负相关（但适度）；r= −.143, 95% 置信区间 [−.173, −.114], p< .001)。这种关联并没有随着虐待形式的变化而变化，但在关系幸福感方面有所不同，因此对消极关系结果的影响比对积极关系结果的影响更强。我们还发现 (a) 演员效应大于合作伙伴效应，(b) 使用儿童创伤问卷 (CTQ) 的研究中的效果比不使用 CTQ 的研究更强，(c) 是否使用既定的关系测量-存在没有改变效果，（d）效果的绝对幅度与效果的方法学严谨性呈负相关，并且（e）效果不随出版物类型的函数而变化，样本是否为大学生样本，或工会状态，与工会持续时间的平均值无关。最后，现有研究的局限性，