How individuals in romantic partnerships cope with health challenges either separately or together has a profound impact on their individual and relational well-being. The goal of this investigation was to test the logic of the recently extended Theoretical Model of Communal Coping (TMCC) by assessing how the two dimensions of communal coping, shared appraisal and joint action, are related to individual and relational well-being. Dyadic survey data from 100 romantic couples were analyzed using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model. Results support the TMCC’s assertion that shared appraisal and joint action are distinct facets of communal coping and extend the model by highlighting how different partners’ experiences with communal coping may be.

浪漫伴侣中的个人如何单独或共同应对健康挑战，对他们的个人和关系福祉产生深远影响。这项研究的目的是通过评估公共应对的两个维度（共享评估和共同行动）与个人和关系幸福感之间的关系，测试最近扩展的社区应对理论模型（TMCC）的逻辑。使用Actor-Partner Interdependence模型分析了来自100对浪漫情侣的二进位调查数据。结果支持TMCC的观点，即共同评估和共同行动是社区应对的不同方面，并通过强调不同合作伙伴在社区应对方面的经验来扩展该模型。