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New Perspectives on Dynamics of Dyadic Coping
... The STM suggested that dyadic coping is an interpersonal and circular process for managing stressful events shared by both members of the couple. They discussed that it is a multidimensional model in which both partners using positive and negative approaches to cope with stressful situation (Bodenmann, 2005;Leuchtmann & Bodenmann, 2018). Bodenmann (1995Bodenmann ( , 2005 distinguished various forms of dyadic coping as supportive DC, delegated DC and common DC. ...
The present qualitative study aimed in-depth exploration of dyadic coping among couples dealing with chronic illness. There were 12 couples (six females and six males) with chronic illness and their healthy partners were interviewed. The in-depth interviews were conducted through interview guide based on Systematic Transactional Model (STM) (Bodenmann, 1995) and lived experiences of participants. The results were analyzed by using (Braun & Clarke, 2006) method of thematic analysis. The results revealed that female diagnosed partners showed less supportive dyadic coping to deal with physical and emotional burden of their chronic illnesses as compared to chronically ill male partners. However, the economic hardships is equally stressful for both members of the couples resulted in negative dyadic coping. The therapeutic assistance should be given to improve the dyadic coping among couples to deal with burden of chronic illness and live with better quality of life.
... Dyadic coping could refer to one partner supporting the other in his/her coping efforts (supportive or delegated dyadic coping) or both partners engaging together in shared problemsolving or joint emotion-regulation (i.e., joint problem-solving, joint information seeking, sharing of feelings, relaxing together; see, e.g., Bodenmann et al., 2019;Bodenmann, 2000). Dyadic coping has shown to be particularly relevant in explaining coping with stress in romantic relationships (Hilpert et al., 2016;Leuchtmann & Bodenmann, 2018). A perspective based on the STM suggests that dyadic coping is a coping resource that is beneficial for couples through a buffering effect: coping moderates the association between experienced stress and relationship satisfaction (Bodenmann, 2005). ...
Minority Stress in lesbian, gay, and bisexual people (LGBs) might have detrimental effects on relationship satisfaction. However, less is known regarding the potential mechanisms among the association above in LGBs’ romantic relationships. In the present study, we investigated the spillover and buffering impact of minority stress on relationship satisfaction among LGB individuals. A targeted sampling strategy was used to recruit LGBs (N= 1481) for a cross-sectional, online survey. Participants (M age = 35.05 years; 53% men) completed a survey that captured minority stress (i.e., internalized homonegativity, stigma consciousness, and concealment of sexual orientation); intra-/extra-dyadic stress and dyadic coping; and relationship satisfaction. Rigorous latent moderated structural equations was used to test associations between variables. Results indicated that the final model demonstrated acceptable fit. Minority stress was negatively associated with relationship satisfaction only via heightened intra-dyadic stress. Dyadic coping moderated the spillover effect between minority stress and intra-dyadic stress. This study highlights the importance of investigating dyadic coping in romantic relationships in LGBs to gain an insight into these relationships and the associated processes. It has important clinical and social implications for the development and evaluation of multi-level interventions.
... In addition, the positive and supportive behaviors that a partner can enact to help the patient to overcome the numerous stressors and challenges of cardiac illness management have not been addressed by the research on cardiac illness. In particular, dyadic coping (Bodenmann, 1997(Bodenmann, , 2005Leuchtmann & Bodenmann, 2018;Pagani, Donato, Parise, Bertoni, et al., 2019) that is the process through which partners manage their everyday stress as a couple by supporting each other along stressful circumstances has shown its predictive power on psychological well-being (Bodenmann, Meuwly, & Kayser, 2011). Nonetheless, the link between dyadic coping responses, as a specific form of partner support, and patient activation has never been explored. ...
The literature assumes that activating patients in the treatment is associated with positive health-related outcomes, such as clinical indicators in the normal range, high medication adherence, and low emergency department utilization. In the cardiac population, patient activation, that is the patient’s knowledge, skills, confidence, and behaviors needed for managing one’s own health and health care, has been less investigated. In addition, limited attention has been given to the role of the partner as an informal caregiver. However, the patient in the care process is rarely alone, and the partner may play a key role in this process. The goal of this dyadic study (N = 100 heterosexual couples with one partner suffering from an acute cardiac event) is to analyze how individual factors (patients’ anxiety, depression, medication adherence, pessimistic perception of illness) and the couple’s relationship functioning (e.g., different kinds of partner support and dyadic coping) are associated with patient activation. The results showed that patient activation is not a mere question of age. It is positively related to medication adherence and to the partner’s support patient activation. It is negatively correlated with the patient’s psychological distress, pessimistic perception of illness, and to the partner’s hostility. The need for a dyadic approach to both research and intervention with this population is discussed.
... Since infertility can be considered a couple-level (i.e., dyadic) stressor because both partners are affected by this problem and both have to face it, partners are required to cope with these critical experiences together. According to the systemic transactional model of dyadic coping (Bodenmann, 2005;Leuchtmann and Bodenmann, 2018), dyadic coping can be defined as an interpersonal and circular process of managing stressful events shared by both partners within a couple. It is a multidimensional construct depending on several factors (e.g., the situation, individual and dyadic appraisal and goals, partners' competencies), so that partners can engage in positive as well as negative strategies to manage the stressful situation they have to cope with. ...
A couple is considered to be infertile if unable to conceive after 12 months of unprotected sexual intercourse. An extended body of literature supports that infertility and infertility treatments contribute to emotional, social, sexual, and relational issues that can have a negative impact on each partner's well-being and on the couple relationship. Recent findings suggest that a dyadic approach should be used when working with couples coping with these stressors. However, most research to date has focused on the association between infertility and individual's psychological outcomes, rather than on the experience of infertility-related stress and coping from a relational perspective. Consequently, assuming that infertility is a dyadic stressor and that the ability of the partners to cope with this experience is the result of both individual and relational coping strategies, this study aimed to investigate dyadic coping and marital adjustment among couples at the beginning of an Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) treatment. A sample of 167 heterosexual couples (N = 334) undergoing ART treatment at the fertility clinic of a large hospital in Milan from January to December 2017 was recruited. Each participant completed self-reported questionnaires examining marital adjustment (Dyadic Adjustment Scale) and dyadic coping (Dyadic Coping Questionnaire). Demographics and clinical variables were also collected. Data were analyzed using the Actor Partner Interdependence Model (APIM), testing the effect of each partner's dyadic coping style on their own and their partner's marital adjustment. Results revealed that both women and partners' scores on positive dyadic coping styles (common, emotion-focused, problem-focused, and delegated dyadic coping) contributed to higher marital adjustment. This result suggests that couples unable to engage in this type of reciprocal supportive behaviors and those unsatisfied with their coping efforts may be more vulnerable while undergoing ART treatments. Furthermore, findings highlighted some gender differences for stress communication and negative dyadic coping suggesting the presence of specific dynamics within couples facing an ART treatment. Implications for clinical practice and future research are discussed.
... While most studies focused on individual, dispositional antecedents of partners dyadic coping responses (see for a review, Donato and Pagani, 2018), the role of more proximal and situational factors facilitating or inhibiting effective dyadic coping reactions is still under-investigated. A future line of inquiry in dyadic coping research could examine each specific component of the dyadic coping process (see also Leuchtmann and Bodenmann, 2018). At this regard, in fact, only a recent study approached a micro-analytic investigation of dyadic coping conversations (Kuhn et al., 2017). ...
The present study was aimed at examining the role of explicit stress communication in the context of dyadic coping. The general aim of the present study was to test (a) whether explicit communication of daily stressful events predicted relationship satisfaction and (b) whether the perception of responsiveness in dyadic coping mediated the association between explicit stress communication and partners’ satisfaction. We analyzed daily diary data from 55 married couples and multilevel analyses suggested that, although explicit stress communication was not associated with relationship satisfaction, it predicted both partners’ responsiveness in dyadic coping behaviors. Finally, responsive dyadic coping behaviors mediated the relationship between explicit stress communication and relationship satisfaction. On the whole, our findings showed that perceived responsiveness in dyadic coping with daily stressors was facilitated by explicit stress communication and that this contributed to the effectiveness of dyadic coping behaviors in fostering partners’ relationship satisfaction. We discussed how the current study contributes to the understanding of the dyadic coping process and its contribution to partners’ satisfaction, underscoring the importance of communication skills.
Interpersonal affect regulation has shown to be important for couple's relationship functioning and individual's well-being. However, less is known about the prerequisites for interpersonal affect regulation and the different contexts of interpersonal affect regulation have mainly been investigated independently of each other. The current thesis investigates empathy as a prerequisite for interpersonal affect regulation in the context of dyadic coping and conflicts and proposes a general framework for interpersonal affect regulation processes in order to integrate findings from different research avenues of interpersonal affect regulation. Results of the empirical studies supported the importance of affective and cognitive empathy within the process of dyadic coping (study 1), provided evidence that men's cognitive empathy helps couples to maintain high levels of dyadic coping in the long- run (study 2), and suggested that men's cognitive empathy is associated with better conflict regulation (study 3). Additionally, conflict regulation predicted concurrent relationship satisfaction but did not predict change in relationship satisfaction across 4 years (study 3). In sum, these results support the notion that empathy plays a crucial role in different contexts of interpersonal affect regulation. Extending research about the role of empathy in interpersonal affect regulation might be a promising pathway to improve clinical interventions. Interpersonelle Affektregulation ist ein wichtiger Prädiktor von Partnerschaftsqualität und individuellem Wohlbefinden. Darüber hingegen, welche Faktoren interpersonelle Affektregulation ermöglichen, ist weniger bekannt und die verschiedenen Kontexte von interpersoneller Affektregulation wurden meist unabhängig voneinander untersucht. Diese Arbeit untersucht die Rolle von Empathie in interpersoneller Affektregulation im Kontext von dyadischem Coping und Konflikten und postuliert ein Rahmenmodell für interpersonelle Affektregulationsprozesse, das die Integration von Erkenntnissen aus verschiedenen Forschungsbereichen ermöglichen soll. Die Resultate der empirischen Studien bestätigten die Wichtigkeit von affektiver und kognitiver Empathie für den Prozess des dyadischen Copings (Studie 1), zeigten, dass kognitive Empathie der Männer Paaren dabei hilft, längerfristig hohes dyadisches Coping aufrechtzuerhalten (Studie 2) und zeigten, dass kognitive Empathie der Männer mit besserer Konfliktregulation einhergeht (Studie 3). Weiter sagte Konfliktregulation momentane Beziehungszufriedenheit vorher, nicht aber den Verlauf von Beziehungszufriedenheit über 4 Jahre (Studie 3). Zusammenfassend deuten die Befunde darauf hin, dass Empathie eine zentrale Rolle für interpersonelle Affektregulation in unterschiedlichen Kontexten spielt. Weitere Forschung über die Rolle von Empathie in interpersoneller Affektregulation könnte vielversprechender sein um klinische Interventionen zu verbessern.
Interpersonal affect regulation has shown to be important for couple's relationship functioning and individual's well-being. However, less is known about the prerequisites for interpersonal affect regulation and the different contexts of interpersonal affect regulation have mainly been investigated independently of each other. The current thesis investigates empathy as a prerequisite for interpersonal affect regulation in the context of dyadic coping and conflicts and proposes a general framework for interpersonal affect regulation processes in order to integrate findings from different research avenues of interpersonal affect regulation. Results of the empirical studies supported the importance of affective and cognitive empathy within the process of dyadic coping (study 1), provided evidence that men's cognitive empathy helps couples to maintain high levels of dyadic coping in the long-run (study 2), and suggested that men's cognitive empathy is associated with better conflict regulation (study 3). Additionally, conflict regulation predicted concurrent relationship satisfaction but did not predict change in relationship satisfaction across 4 years (study 3). In sum, these results support the notion that empathy plays a crucial role in different contexts of interpersonal affect regulation. Extending research about the role of empathy in interpersonal affect regulation might be a promising pathway to improve clinical interventions.
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