… , the impact of illness on couples has become a significant area of psychological research
and … field of the psychology of couples, examines the juncture of psychology and medicine. To …

… The Psychology of Couples and Illness is a comprehensive guide … relationships on illness
and illness on relationships. The book reviews psychophysiological consequences of couple …

… couples cope with the chronic physical illness of one partner in order to understand couples
… Second, although we want to make conclusions about illness, writ large, most of the studies …

… are finding dyadic coping processes to be significant in the prediction of positive adaptations
for couples challenged by physical illness, emphasizing the importance of this work and the …

… problems on couples and vice versa, couples-based … on a couples’ functioning will be
discussed as a disease-specific … research on how health problems impact couples, and how …

… a need to study different diseases separately … of illness for the individual patient, the different
psychological consequences of different diseases, and the differences in degree of illness …

… into health psychology. In this article, we draw on recent theory and research from the study
of adult … Our emphasis is on attachment theory as applied to adult relationships, as they have …

… , this study did not directly compare couples with ill husbands to couples with ill wives.) …
We return to the study of 113 married couples with rheumatic disease described earlier in this …

… both patients with chronic illness and their caregiving partners, and evidence is reviewed
from research on couples in general and available research within the illness context. The final …

… will be provided to the ill partner.19, 20 Couples also typically negotiate difficult choices …
of the major theories that have guided research on couples and cancer. These theories are …