The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the significant and varied losses that couples can experience during times of global and regional disasters and crises. What factors determine how couples navigate their close relationships during times of loss? In this paper, we elaborate and extend on one of the most influential frameworks in relationship science—the Vulnerability Stress Adaptation Model (VSAM, Karney and Bradbury, 1995)—to enhance the model's power to explain relationships during loss-themed disasters/crises. We do so by elaborating on attachment theory and integrating interdependence theory (emphasizing partner similarities and differences). Our elaboration and extension to the VSAM provides a comprehensive framework to guide future research and inform practice and policy in supporting relationships during and beyond loss-themed disasters/crises.

COVID-19 大流行突显了夫妻在全球和区域灾难和危机期间可能遭受的重大而多样的损失。哪些因素决定了夫妻在失去亲人时如何驾驭亲密关系？在本文中，我们详细阐述并扩展了关系科学中最有影响力的框架之一——脆弱性压力适应模型 (VSAM, Karney and Bradbury, 1995)——以增强模型在以损失为主题的灾难/危机期间解释关系的能力。我们通过详细阐述依恋理论和整合相互依赖理论（强调合作伙伴的相似性和差异）来做到这一点。