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29th APS Annual Convention

Psychological Resilience within Intimate Relationships: Processes and Mechanisms

Friday, May 26, 2017 · Boston, MA

Personality/Emotion

Relationships promote psychological resilience, and recent work specifies likely processes underlying this important effect. This symposium addresses resilience-generating properties of relationships, emphasizing critical conceptual distinctions, detrimental effects of stress on couple resilience, origins and consequences of emotion regulation across the lifespan, and experimental interventions for couples designed to promote resilience.

Chairs & Discussants

  • Wai Kai HouChair
    The Education University of Hong Kong
  • Thomas BradburyCoChair
    University of California, Los Angeles

Presentations

  1. In a State of Flux: How Couples Cope with Stress in Everyday Life?Wai Kai Hou, Stevan Hobfoll
  2. Why Do Couples Fluctuate in Relationship Satisfaction? Comparing Stress and Observed Communication As ExplanationsTeresa Nguyen, Benjamin Karney, Thomas Bradbury
  3. Pathways to Late-Life Resilience: Childhood Nurturance, Midlife Emotion Regulation, and Late-Life AttachmentRobert Waldinger, Marc Schulz
  4. How Easily We Turn Away: Intimacy Theory, the Path of Least Emotional Resistance, and the Practice of Turning Toward. Lessons from the Marriage CheckupJames Cordova, Tatiana Gray