Mediation Role of Dyadic Coping on Parenting Stress and Relational Resilience in Couples

Examination of Relational Resilience With Couple Burnout and Spousal Support in Families With a Disabled Child

“…RRS is a 27 item and multidimensional self-report measure developed to gauge couples’ ability to recover after facing traumatic experiences (Aydogan & Ozbay, 2015a). The RSS has four subscales: actor (6 items, e.g., I give hope to my partner that everything will be better), partner (6 items, e.g., my partner gives me power to hold on to life again), union (10 items, e.g., my partner and I mutually care about our feelings), and spirituality (5 items, e.g., I ask my partner to pray in order for everything to go well).…”

“…In order to understand the quality of the relationship in a marriage, it is important to understand how married individuals handle stressful life conditions or crises. Reviewing the applications and research that have been focused on families and couples, the concept of relational resilience, which is more than a survival after various risky situations or negative experiences, is considered as a feature that provides strength to couples and families throughout the hard times (Aydogan & Ozbay, 2015a; Brown & Robinson, 2012; Connolly, 2005; Jordan, 1997; McCubbin & McCubbin, 1993; Miller & Stiver, 1997; Patterson, 2002; Walsh, 1996). In the face of these stressful events or crises, mutuality and interdependence might affect the reactions to these life events beyond individual coping, since couples have the tendency to react to the difficulties, such as diseases, individually.…”

Relational resilience as a protective factor in marital adjustment of couples with cancer: a dyadic model

“…Actually, this finding is important in term of developing a couple identity. In a research study, it was found that if married couples take joint action by engaging in common positive dyadic coping in managing stressful condition resulting from cancer, they improve and maintain reciprocal adjustment and at the same time, present this characteristic in different aspects of marriage (34).…”

“…There are studies in literature evaluating disease of cancer by mutual effect model within the context of couple relationship (16,25). The researches investigating relational resilience in marital relationship in the face of important risky situations are extremely rare in Turkey (34,35). Taking into account these explanations, the primary goal of the current study was to examine the effects of relational resilience on the marital adjustment of couples dealing with cancer.…”

Understanding relational resilience of married adults in quarantine days

“…Some studies assert that coping with stress as a couple is a crucial factor in terms of defining a marital relationship quality, relationship satisfaction and stability of the relationship (Bodenmann, 2005;Bodenmann & Cina, 2006;Ledermann et al, 2010). At the same time, a limited number of studies indicates that positive dyadic coping contributes to relational resilience of couples (Aydogan & Ozbay, 2018). Additionally, in some studies, it was found that positive dyadic coping increases both personal and relationship satisfaction and the amount of perceived stress has an effect on relationship satisfaction (Martos et al, 2019;Rusu et al, 2020).…”